In this article, Professor Skibine shows how in the last thirty years or so, the United States Supreme court has taken legal principles based on functionalism and transformed them into inflexible rules based on formalism. This has allowed the Court not only to rule against Indian tribal...

The scope of this paper is trace the history and development of equity and also its current relevance primarily for Indian legal system. It seeks to specifically determine the reasons if any, for the failure of the common law courts in bringing about social change and suggests certain important...

The laws dealing with intestate and testamentary succession in India are not uniform. A variety of laws are in vogue whose application depends on multiple factors. While the Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Parsis and the Jews have distinct personal laws of their own, the Scheduled Tribes in India...