Introduction When a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered its judgment in Supriyo v. Union of India in October 2023, it declined to recognise a constitutional
Introduction The architecture of Article 22 of the Indian Constitution was designed with deliberate care. The framers, many of whom had endured colonial detention under emergency regulations, understood that the
Introduction Every election cycle in India produces a fresh iteration of one of the most contested questions at the intersection of constitutional law, political economy, and democratic theory: whether it
Introduction When the Supreme Court of India unanimously held in K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) that privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution, it opened a constitutional
Introduction On 11 May 2022, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered an order in S.G. Vombatkere v. Union of India that, for a brief moment, appeared
Introduction Few constitutional questions in independent India have generated as much sustained controversy as the method by which judges are appointed to the higher judiciary. The Supreme Court’s 2015 decision
Introduction The Indian Constitution allocates to the Governor a set of formal powers over state legislation that, if exercised without restraint, can paralyse the legislative functioning of an elected state
Introduction Every mature competition law system distinguishes between two enforcement modes: public enforcement, where the competition authority investigates and sanctions anti-competitive conduct on behalf of the public interest, and private
Introduction Oligopolistic markets — where a small number of large firms account for most of the market’s supply — are ubiquitous in India’s economy: aviation, telecom, cement, steel, petroleum refining,
Introduction The term “killer acquisition” entered the competition law vocabulary through an influential 2018 academic paper by Cunningham, Ederer, and Ma, which documented a systematic pattern in the pharmaceutical industry: