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A friend, Zainab Bawa (zainabbawa [at] yahoo.com) has the following books on law and human rights for sale. She lives in Byculla, Bombay. Contact her directly if you are interested in buying.

1) Humanitarian Law - edited by Rose Varghese and M.K. Balachandran, Justice Krishna Iyer
Published by ICRC, New Delhi, 1999
Book in Brand New Condition
Original Price […]

In a free society, which of the following contracts should be enforceable?

“If the contractee of the first part becomes so totally incapacitated that he can justifiably be called a living vegetable, the contractee of the second part (Dr…) agrees to administer a poison to him so as to cause his death”
“If either party to this […]

Andy Duncan at Samizdata, still drunk over the English Rugby victory (can’t blame him, England seems to win precious little in sports these days), visualizes a functioning system of competing laws.
Competitive laws? As in more than one legal system? You can choose which court to go to? What about the other side? What if […]

Ankh talks about “introducing” a jury based legal system in India.
Well, until 1959 India had a jury based system. The landmark Nanavati murder case changed it all. Kawas Nanavati, a Commander in the Indian Navy, was accused of murdering his wife’s lover. The evidence was against Nanavati. However, he was a young and […]