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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shankar, Shylashri, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
India. > Supreme Court.
India. > Supreme Court
Preventive detention > India.
Terrorism > India > Prevention.
Social rights > India.
Preventive detention
Social rights
Terrorism > Prevention
India
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Table of Contents:
  • Judges as embedded negotiators
  • Institutional norms and memories of the Supreme Court
  • The legal framework of preventive detention and anti-terror laws
  • Judges, preventive detention, and anti-terror laws
  • The Constitution and social rights
  • Transforming social rights
  • Scaling justice.

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