VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

How much of the work of judges is known by the public varies considerably from country to country and even from court to court, in the same country. Institutional designs are highly diverse. Perhaps the most extreme case of publicity in courts is...

India has been struggling to regulate campaign finances for long. A more recent addition to the predicament is the phenomenon of ‘paid news’. Different institutions, the Election Commission of India (EC) and the judiciary being the most active...

This paper explores the engagement of the Supreme Court of India with various international instruments (binding and non-binding) to protect and promote the rights of women. While normally the type of legal system (monist or dualist) creates...

Certain rape cases in India that occurred over the last decades have received more public attention than others, because of their gruesomeness or because the verdict provoked public outrage. This research paper examines what legal provisional...

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 Act was enacted to safeguard the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) from atrocities and violence. Recently the Supreme Court pronounced a verdict in order...

There has been a national debate raging in India about the system of appointments for Supreme Court and High Court judges. At the founding of the Indian Supreme Court, the executive had primary authority over judicial appointments. In 1993, the...

Today, the Indian Supreme Court serves as a constitutional court, a regular appeals court and as an equal partner in governance of the country. This year, questions over the administration of the Court repeatedly arose in public discourse,...

The legitimate source of governmental power in modern constitutional democracies is traced to a people. Drawing on this tradition of founding political power, the Indian Constitution is a radical attempt to secure the consent of the Indian people to...

Using the January 2018 Press Conference by the four Supreme Court Justices as an entry point, the paper proposes that Parliamentary discourse, an oft-ignored pulse of the political narrative, is a relevant window into studying how the legislature...