[Dr. Srinivas Burra is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi.] This is in response to Benoit Mayer's writeup titled 'Why I Can't Sign the World Lawyers' Pledge on Climate Action', which was a reaction to 'World Lawyers' Pledge on Climate Action: An Urgent Call for Climate Mainstreaming'. I am not an expert on climate...
This is the final part in my series on PG studies. I haven’t covered everything but, hopefully, enough to help lift some of the angst PG students feel. I admit this series is more formulaic than I envisaged. PG studies are a wonderful experience and academic research is an artistic and creative endeavour, despite my overly mechanical representation. While I...
The eminent jurist Harry Arthurs opens a provocative article — Law and Learning in an Era of Globalisation — with a binary. He splits legal scholars into pools of optimists and pessimists, classifying them according to their perception of the trajectory of legal education. “The optimists amongst us assume that human hands — our hands — shape legal education, that legal...