| Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India Contributor(s): Bhuwania, Anuj (Author) |
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ISBN: 110714745X ISBN-13: 9781107147454 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $111.14 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice |
| Dewey: 344.54 |
| LCCN: 2016013219 |
| Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.1" W x 9.37" (0.81 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on empirical research, this book shows how public interest litigation (PIL) grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure, allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While PIL cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that PIL poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines PIL as part of a larger trend towards legal informalism in post-Emergency India. Casting a critical eye over 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 PIL to ideas of fairness in adjudication, as well as democratic politics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bhuwania, Anuj: - Anuj Bhuwania teaches at the Department of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. His research interests are legal anthropology, anthropology of media, public law, post-colonial Indian politics, anthropology of human rights and criminal justice and policing. |
