The Indian government is considering revisions to the Memorandum of Procedure for appointing judges in the higher judiciary. The process is part of broader judicial reforms, including potential ...

Days after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark ruling against legalizing same-sex marriages, Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud sat down with Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins ’77 to ...

To recognise waiting as a constitutional experience is to insist that time is a medium of power and therefore of ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

India's current judge-to-population ratio stands at nearly 22 judges per million people, far below the 1987 Law Commission's ...

Indias judicial system faces serious challenges as the judge-to-population ratio isonly22judgespermillionpeople. This is much ...

The Indian judiciary is subdivided into various levels, with each level having certain powers and jurisdiction. These courts operate on a strict hierarchy with the Supreme Court of India at the top, ...

Learn how the hierarchy of courts in India is structured, from village courts to the Supreme Court, and understand how cases move through the Indian court system.

The India Supreme Court Chief Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud revealed on Friday that 600 lawyers from all across the country wrote to him to express serious concerns over the acts of a ...

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Prime Minister of ...

The Supreme Court of India recently rejected a petition to legalize same-sex marriage, setting back the goal of marriage equality in the country even further. In a country estimated to have at least 2 ...