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Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India

Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India

Name: Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107147454
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Author: Anuj Bhuwania
ISBN: 9781107147454

By Anuj Bhuwania

Cambridge University Press January 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781107147454
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Based on empirical research, this book shows how Public Interest Litigation grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority.

While Public Interest Litigation cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that Public Interest Litigation poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines Public Interest Litigation as part of a larger trend towards legal informalism in post-emergency India.

Casting a critical eye at these institutional reforms that aimed to adapt the colonial legal inheritance to 'Indian realities', this book looks at the challenges posed by self-consciously culturalist juridical innovations like Public Interest Litigation to ideas of fairness in adjudication as well as democratic politics.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Competing populisms: revisiting the origins of Public Interest Litigation in India

2. The case that felled a city: a Public Interest Litigation with nine lives

3. Public Interest Litigation as a slum demolition machine

4. Good judges, bad judges: critical discourses on Public Interest Litigation in India

Conclusion: the procedural is political

Index.

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