Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India

by Anuj Bhuwania

Based on empirical research, this book shows how public interest litigation (PIL) grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure, allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While PIL cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that PIL poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110714745X
• ISBN13: 9781107147454
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"