In Conversation with Shouvik Kumar Guha Faculty of NUJS and Director Operations of IDIA

Shouvik Kumar Guha pursued his BA. LLB and LLM from West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. He had an inclination towards Intellectual Property law from his freshman year of law school. At present, he is also an Assistant Professor of WBNUJS.Shouvik is also an integral part of Spicy IP and Director Operations of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA). He co-heads the foundation of Lexbiosis. He has also authored various exemplary journals, books,...

In Conversation with Swaraj Paul Barooah founder of ‘Know-GAP’ and editor in Chief at SpicyIP.com

Swaraj Paul Barooah did his BA.,LL.B degree from Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad in 2009. He went on to UC Berkeley to do his LLM in 2010 and is currently a JSD Candidate there. His LLM thesis was on ‘Drug Innovation Policy and Access to Medicines’; and his on going JSD dissertation is focusing on deeper issues in this same area.His core IP interest areas are International IP policy, innovation, pharma patents and digital freedoms. His major gripe with IP today primarily revolves around...

If there is a good, imaginative, hardworking VC at the helm, the University does well - if not, everything falls flat; Ramanuj Mukherjee

Ramanuj Mukherjee, an alumnus of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, is a lawyer turned entrepreneur. He used to work at Trilegal (Mumbai) before starting iPleaders, a legal education company seeking to make law easily accessible to everyone. He has also launched a non-profit social network Clathacker which provides study material for CLAT and a legal career insights website Super Lawyer Ramanuj also conducts workshops at numerous colleges across India, including IITs, NITs and...

Till date India has not witnessed any lady CJI; Justice Poonam Srivastava

Mrs. Poonam Shrivastava is the Retired Judge, from Allahabad High Court. She enrolled as an Advocate in the year 1972 and practiced in Civil, Criminal and Writ matters at Allahabad High Court. She was elevated on 07/01/2004 and has the rich experience in serving Allahabad and Jharkhand High Court.Live Law: Please tell us about your decision to choose Law as a career?Justice Poonam Srivastava: That is a long Story, I was a Science student and wanted to become a Doctor . Since PMT at that time...

The best way to learn Research Method is doing Research: Prof. GS Bajpai

Prof. G.S.Bajpai is a known Criminologist and Social Scientist in India. He won the Prof. B S Haikarwal and Prof Sushil Chandra Award for Senior Social Scientist this year. He is a Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice in National law University. (NLU)Delhi. In this interview with Live Law Associate Editor Suchitra Menon, he speaks about a variety of subjects- from Legal research to Kaushal Judgment. Live Law : Congratulations on the receipt of Social Scientist award. Can you share a...

‘One cannot say there is no corruption at all in judiciary’; Justice RM Lodha-CJI Designate

Chief Justice of India designate Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha spoke to Mail Today on various issues. Live Law brings you a summary of the views expressed by Justice Lodha.Judicial Activism Courts should normally not be touching administrative matters but at the same time, wherever there is illegality which require intervention, courts should not shirk responsibility. The fine demarcation should be kept in mind. Judiciary cannot take upon itself the role of the executive.Inadequate FundsJustice...

Bar Associations are only meant to organize lunches and dinners like any other club; Kamini Jaiswal

Advocate Kamini Jaiswal is a respected ‘non-designated’ Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. She is also the Secretary of the Center for Public Interest Litigation. She is known for her progressive and bold outlook in on social issues. Ms Jaiswal doesn’t soften the words while referring to the powers that control present day Indian Bar or Judiciary. She calls a spade a spade.  Here is her interesting conversation with Live Law :Live Law : Let us start with an issue being talked about...

Abolish Two Judge Benches; Fali Nariman

From the Idea Exchange Programme conducted by the Indian Express;In this Idea Exchange moderated by Editor (Legal Affairs) Maneesh Chhibber, constitutional expert Fali Nariman talks about why the idea of a Lokpal selection panel is “absurd”, calls the collegium system of appointing judges “hopeless” and says Manmohan Singh “has failed us”Maneesh Chhibber: We are going to have a new Chief Justice of India (CJI) in less than a month. What are your views on this?I think the present CJI has done...

Exclusive : In Conversation with Baroness Usha Prashar, Member of House of Lords, and UK’s First Judicial Appointments Commissioner

Baroness Usha Prashar was appointed as the first chairman of the Judicial Appointment Commission in the UK in September 2005. She is currently a member of the House of Lords. She was instrumental in bringing far reaching changes to the appointments process; making it transparent, widening the selection pool, eliminating elitism and bringing in diversity.In this conversation with Santosh Paul, (Advocate, Supreme Court) for Live Law, she spoke at length about UK’s model of JAC and the proposed JAC...

Lily Thomas is a correct judgment while Jan Chaukidar is wrong; Raju Ramachandran

A Senior Advocate at Supreme Court and a former Additional Solicitor General, Raju Ramachandran joined the bar in 1976. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1996 at the age of 42 and was appointed as Additional Solicitor General of India for 2002 - 2004. Raju Ramachandran has argued several important cases in the Supreme Court and various High Courts. Ramachandran was the counsel for the Justice Sawant Committee under the Judges Inquiry Act-1968, which probed the charges against Justice V...

The new Companies Act has its share of issues and in some areas will create more complications than before: Zia Mody

Zia Mody is the Founder and Senior Partner of AZB & Partners and one of India’s foremost corporate attorneys. She passed her law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1978 and obtained her LLM from Harvard Law School. She was admitted as a member of the New York State Bar in 1980. Zia worked as a corporate associate at Baker & McKenzie, New York, for five years before moving to India to set up practice, establishing the Chambers of Zia Mody in 1984, which then became AZB &...

Conversation with Professor George H Gadbois Jr, a distinguished scholar of Indian law and judicial behaviour

George H Gadbois Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Kentucky, USA. His research over half a century dealing with the Supreme Court of India has appeared in various publications since the 1960s. Gadbois is the author of the book ‘Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989’, which essays the background and life of the first ninety three judges who served the Supreme Court from 1950 to 1989. He has also authored many other articles and book chapters dealing with...