Applications are invited by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), from all those candidates who are interested to get them enrolled in various kinds’ management programmes, on part time basis. This institution was established by the Government of India in the year 1963 as an autonomous centre for learning and is regarded as one
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IIFT MBA (IB) Part Time 2010
The Government has reopened the debate on allowing foreign investment in the multi-brand retail sector. A discussion paper issued yesterday reviews existing studies conducted by the Government and other entities on this topic and also examines the experience in other emerging markets
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FDI in Multi-brand Retailing
One of our regular and esteemed readers, Shekhar Hattangadi, has written this interesting piece in today’s DNA, expressing his disappointment with the judgment on Narco tests. Shekhar is a lawyer and an adjunct professor of medical jurisprudence at Mumbai University. Shekhar and I disagree on the import of Supreme Court’s judgment, but readers are welcome to form their own opinion on the issue.
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Supreme Court’s judgment on Narco tests: the debate continues
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of the Texas Education Agency’s science-curriculum director for violating the agency’s policy requiring “neutrality” on curriculum deliberations by sending e-mail critical of creationism.
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Texas Education Agency Firing Over Creationism E-Mail Upheld
A recent note discusses the decision of the Supreme Court in Kandimalla Raghavaiah v. National Insurance , concluding that it is being misinterpreted, and lays down dangerous precedent for insurance claims. While the concern highlighted by the abovementioned note, that “ consumers will continue to find themselves at the receiving end with genuine complaints being thrown out for being time–barred ” is completely valid, it appears that the decision has not been misinterpreted, and in fact espouses a view detrimental to valid insurance claims.
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The Issue of Limitation in Consumer Complaints
Dear All, On the requests of a number of people, the deadline for submissions of abstracts for papers and panels for the Second Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) Conference to be held in Pune from December 27th – 30th, 2010 has been postponed to July 31st, 2010.
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Extension of deadline for submission of papers to Lassnet 2010
Except for fireworks on the military-recruiters-at-Harvard issue, the first day of questioning in the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan did not seem to be addressing education issues much. Until the 10th and final hour of the marathon session, that is
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Kagan Defends Education Principles, Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said this morning that she and her brothers were surprised at her mother’s funeral a couple of years ago when hundreds of people they didn’t know showed up. “My brothers and I expected a small funeral” for their mother, Gloria, Kagan said at the beginning of the second day of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Kagan: My Mother Was a Tough Teacher
Some of you may be aware of a recent move by the Indian government to amend the copyright act to inter-alia redress a historical injustice and compensate Bollywood artists more justly for their creative endeavours. For some background on this issue, please see here. Most artists (mainly music composers, lyricists and script writers) have been at the receiving end of unjust contracts from film producers and sound recording companies who’ve taken away all their rights for a lowly lumpsum
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Infusing Fairness into Bollywood
Given the robust nature of the class action mechanism in the U.S., it is hardly surprising that plaintiffs rush to initiate legal actions before the U.S. courts even in relation to foreign companies that have issued securities listed on non-U.S. stock exchanges
Recent events, both in India and elsewhere, have thrown the spotlight on the roles and responsibilities of companies in society. In an interesting article “The Conscience of Capitalism” in Forbes India, Arun Maira discusses (in a non-technical fashion) the difficulties in pinning responsibility for wrongdoing by a company
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The Social Cost of Corporations
On the 12th of June, the Alternative Law Forum (ALF) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a public lecture by Justice A P Shah and Prof.
Earlier on this blog , we covered Menaka Guruswamy’s EPW article on the drafting of the Nepalese Constitution. In today’s Hindu, Guruswamy’s superb op-ed provides further insights into the constitution-making process in Nepal. The piece illuminates how law and politics interact in such processes, and indicates that much of the process is fundamentally about power-sharing and institutional design.
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Constitution-making in Nepal
In 1997, as President Bill Clinton’s administration was pursuing an initiative on voluntary national testing, a White House education aide suggested the possibility of a high school test to follow proposed 4th and 8th grade tests. Elena Kagan, who was deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council at the time, reviewed the memo from the aide, Michael Cohen, which was intended for the president’s eyes.
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Kagan E-Mails Show Resolve on K-12 Issues
(The following post comes to us from Rohan Bagai, who has previously contributed posts on this Blog here and here ) The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration Secretary General, Mr. Jason Fry and Ms. Francesca Mazza, Counsel and Secretary to the ICC Commission on Arbitration are set to impart their knowledge and share their experience in a one-hour, interactive webinar (web-based seminar) on June 23, 2010 at 4 pm (GMT+2), which focuses on revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration (the “Rules”).
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Webinar on ‘Revision of the ICC Arbitration Rules’
It is generally accepted that a defendant in an action for damages cannot exercise the right of “set-off” on the basis of a mere “claim”, which has not crystallised. For example, while the law permits a defendant to set off debts owed to him by the plaintiff against a successful claim in court, he cannot normally resist the plaintiff’s case on the basis that litigation is pending in other courts, resulting potentially in a decree worth more than the sum due to the plaintiff. The rationale for this rule is that a plaintiff who has successfully pursued an action against a defendant cannot have his claim frustrated on the mere possibility of a decree against him in the future
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The "right" of retention
The Ronnie Lee Gardner saga appears to have reached its final days. But an interesting thing has happened in the Gardner case in recent days: jurors who sentenced Gardner to death back in ’85 have come forward to say 1) that they wouldn’t have done so had they heard evidence of Gardner’s troubled childhood and 2) they would have sentenced him to life in prison without parole rather than to death had that been an option back then. Gardner was convicted of shooting and killing attorney Michael Burdell during a courthouse escape attempt back in 1985, since which time he’s resided on death row.
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When Jurors Change Their Minds: The Ronnie Gardner Saga Goes On
Reuters – A biology professor from the University of Alabama-Huntsville accused of killing three colleagues in February was charged on Wednesday with the 1986 shotgun slaying of her brother in Massachusetts. More..
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Accused Alabama college shooter charged in ’86 death (Reuters)
Enter the “Celebrate America” photo contest and we may feature your photo on USA.gov, GobiernoUSA.gov, and our social media channels. The deadline for photo submissions is 12:00 PM Eastern Time on June 30, 2010.
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Show Us How You Celebrate America — USA.gov Photo Contest
I was passing by a parked car when the driver of the that car opened his door and struck mine on the passenger side. The damage is a broken mirror, a front door dent in the handle area and scratched paint on the back door. The damage on his car is on the rim of the passenger door.
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Insurance liability: Can an insurance company ignore the witness?