Scaling justice : India's Supreme Court, anti-terror laws, and social rights / Shylashri Shankar.

What explains the choices that India's Supreme Court justices make? Shankar addresses this question by combining a textured qualitative analysis of the constitutional and legal framework, landmark rulings, and dissenting opinions, with a statistical multivariate analysis of cases dealing with c...

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Main Author: Shankar, Shylashri, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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