India has experienced significant economic growth since the 1990’s. Young middle-class Indian nationals have embraced international tertiary and vocational education as a part of this trend. Many of these students have come to Australia to study. In 2009, claims that Indian students in...

Conjunctive management is the integrated management of all water sources as a single system. As complicated as conjunctive management of state water resources is, things become even more complicated when conjunctive management involves tribal water resources as well. On virtually all Indian...

Following the TRIPs Agreement and amendments in the Indian Patent Act, India is now part of a global treaty in which technological innovations are encouraged and protected, not just in few but a very large number of countries. Copying drugs is now no longer possible because of product patents....

Policing in the recent years have gone a long way from the traditional law and order police. Now the police have a wide variety of functions, and is seen as the sovereign arm of the state which is a protector of human rights, life, liberty and dignity of every person in the society. However,...

Does the Indian Parliament have the power to expel its members under the "powers, privileges and immunities" guaranteed by the Constitution? The Indian Supreme Court was confronted with the question in Raja Ram Pal v. Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha and Others. Powers, privileges and immunities of...

In 2004 the National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB), over a powerful dissent, overruled its 1976 precedent and effectively rewrote the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA) to apply, for the first time, to on-reservation Indian Nation government employment (the NLRA has never...

"Wind Energy in Indian Country: A Study of the Challenges and Opportunities Facing South Dakota Tribes" is a study of the developing wind power in Indian country and how this resource presents a unique opportunity for Indian tribes to advance economic and social interests while adhering to...

This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...

This paper investigates the impact of judiciaries on firms' contracting behaviour and economic performance. In 2002, the Code of Civil Procedure Amendment Act was enacted in India to facilitate speedy disposal of civil suits. Some State High Courts had already enacted some of the amendments...

Article 301 of the Constitution of India provides that "... trade, commerce and intercourse throughout the territory of India shall be free". The Supreme Court of India has consistently held that the freedom is impaired only if the legislation directly and immediately restricts the interstate...