Scaling justice India's Supreme Court, anti-terror laws, and social rights
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi
Oxford University Press
2009, 2009
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 civil liberties and social rights. She argues that judges are 'embedded negotiators' who craft judgments to avoid conflict with the political wings, while also remaining mindful of their role as safe keepers of the rights of citizens |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 230 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780199081998 |