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• Basic instinct : a landmark in modern constitutional jurisprudence, Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala (1973)
• Life uninterrupted : the Supreme Court's chance at redemption, Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978)
• Whose law is it anyway? A flashpoint in religious fundamentalism : Mohammed Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum (1985)
• Home on the range : the emergence of 'second generations rights' like housing, Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation (1985)
• Justice delayed : the loss through law, Union Carbide Corporation v. Union of India (1989)
• 'No, I am more backward than you are!' : the discourse on reservations, Indra Sawhney v. Union of India (1992)
• Death in custody : the breach of trust and its price, Nilabati Behera v. State of Orissa (1993)
• Courting liberty : independence of the judiciary as envisaged by the Constitution of India, Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v. Union of India (1993)
• All in a day's work : sexual harassment at the workplace, Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan (1997)
• Killing me softly : the euthanasia debate in India, Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug v. Union of India (2011).

Papers presented at the National Seminar on "25 Years of Consumer Protection in India: Challenges and the Way Forward" held at the International Training Centre of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India during 22-23 September 2012 organized by the Chair on Consumer Law & Practice.

• What is abortion?
• Different methods of inducing abortion
• MTP Act : mandatory stipulations and safety provisions
• Legal provisions related to criminal abortions
• Medicine deranged : Indian statism and Nazism : a saga of human rights violations in reproductive health
• Abortion pills : murder marketed
• Preventing sex selection/determination through PCPNDT Act, 1994
• Female foetal loss and gender disparity
• Modern regulation techniques and medical ethics.

• Patent system, constitution, and the public
• The resurgence of the public
• Pre-grant opposition : ex ante validation of patents
• Heightened standards of patentability : raising the bar on inventions
• Compulsory licensing : local working in the global economy
• The fault lines of harmonization
• The access regime : creation, working, and pathways.

India's post-TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) patent law reforms, which incorporates a remarkable array of flexibilities, is seen as a counter-harmonization measure in direct opposition to the dominant model of patent law pioneered by the United States. India's response, which represents an alternative model of confirming to the TRIPS Agreement, has seen stiff resistance in the form of counter-provisions in Free Trade Agreements entered by the United States and other countries. Historically, patent systems based on neoliberalism, like the American model, favour individual pursuits whereas patent systems based on social democracy, like the Indian model, focus on community goals. This distinction manifests in the manner in which the role of the public is defined in the patent system. India's model is characterized by the emphasis on the public elements in three significant ways. First, in redefining pre-grant opposition by allowing public participation in questioning the ex ante validity of patents. Second, in protecting the public domain by heightening the standard of patentability and requiring the patent applicant to demonstrate technical advance and greater effectiveness of the invention. Third, in providing for compulsory licensing when the public interest is affected by a patent that is not worked locally. The influence of the India's model has come from mimicry by other countries in following the Indian example. Countries like Argentina, Philippines, Brazil, China and South Africa have either emulated or strongly favour following India's path. Such state practices might occasion the re-imagination of the TRIPS Agreement as the Access Regime. This book explains why India took that unique route in patent law, details the provisions made the Indian patent law unique, and charters the course for countries awaiting to follow the Indian example.
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• Access to knowledge : from development to human rights / Lea Shaver
• Access to knowledge and traditional knowledge protection : the Indian experience / Sudhir Krishnaswamy
• Public libraries and access to knowledge (A2K) : a history of open access (OA) and the internet in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Prashant Iyengar
• Access to medicines in India : a review of recent concerns / Chan Park & Arjun Jayadev
• ICTS and access to knowledge in rural India : a comparative study of two models of deployment / Ramesh Subramanian
• Contemporary information and knowledge management : impact on farming in India / R. Ajith Kumar ... et al.

This is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series. India is a $1 trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which lives in rural areas. This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property, development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated innovation, from the Indian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge. These include information and communications technology for development; the Indian digital divide; networking rural areas; copyright and comparative business models in music; free and open source software; patent reform and access to medicines; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.
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Study on the traditional system of justice of tribes in Chota Nāgpur, India.

• Foreword by Justice B.N. Srikrishna
• 1. Introduction by Leila Choukroune and Rahul Donde
• 2. India International Investment Treaty Law and Policy in Perspective
• 3. Critical Approaches to India's International Commercial Arbitration.
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This edited collection on international commercial and investment disputes in, and with, India examines past and present landmark legislative and regulatory reforms initiated by the Indian government, including the 2015 new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) model, the 2015 amendments to the 1996 Arbitration Act and the 2013 amendments to Section 135 of the Companies Act on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as well as the most recent amendments to the same. The book also includes recent developments in the dispute resolution arena, regional, and international negotiations involving India, the legal profession's response to these developments, and civil society's comments. In addition, it addresses contemporary problems of key importance and at the centre of today's discussions, from the legitimacy and relevance of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) to the denunciation of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and the role arbitration should play in emerging economies now leaders in world trade. In creating bridges between commercial and investment arbitration, it also renews the conceptual approach to these too often artificially isolated fields of law. The volume provides an accurate and updated account of the many fascinating conceptual and practical evolutions, which already impact the world of international dispute resolution far beyond the borders of India. This unique and exhaustive study will be of great appeal to a vast range of readers from practitioners to academia.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The shared adjudication model: theoretical framework and arguments
• 3. State law and the adjudication process: marriage, divorce, and the conjugal family in Hindu and Muslim personal law
• 4. Making and unmaking the conjugal family: the administration of Hindu law in society
• 5. Juristic diversity, contestations over 'Islamic law' and women's rights: regulation of matrimonial matters in Muslim personal law
• 6. Conclusion.
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This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices of state and society. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. The shared adjudication model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase gender equality and individual and collective legal mobilization by women effects institutional change.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The shared adjudication model: theoretical framework and arguments
• 3. State law and the adjudication process: marriage, divorce, and the conjugal family in Hindu and Muslim personal law
• 4. Making and unmaking the conjugal family: the administration of Hindu law in society
• 5. Juristic diversity, contestations over 'Islamic law' and women's rights: regulation of matrimonial matters in Muslim personal law
• 6. Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices of state and society. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. The shared adjudication model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase gender equality and individual and collective legal mobilization by women effects institutional change.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The shared adjudication model: theoretical framework and arguments
• 3. State law and the adjudication process: marriage, divorce, and the conjugal family in Hindu and Muslim personal law
• 4. Making and unmaking the conjugal family: the administration of Hindu law in society
• 5. Juristic diversity, contestations over 'Islamic law' and women's rights: regulation of matrimonial matters in Muslim personal law
• 6. Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices of state and society. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. The shared adjudication model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase gender equality and individual and collective legal mobilization by women effects institutional change.
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