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Author Shankar, Shylashri, 1967-

Title Scaling justice : India's Supreme Court, anti-terror laws, and social rights / Shylashri Shankar
Published New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 230 pages) : illustrations
Contents Judges as embedded negotiators -- Institutional norms and memories of the Supreme Court -- The legal framework of preventive detention and anti-terror laws -- Judges, preventive detention, and anti-terror laws -- The Constitution and social rights -- Transforming social rights -- Scaling justice
Summary What explains the choices that India's Supreme Court justices make? Shankar addresses this question by combining a textured qualitative analysis of the constitutional and legal framework, landmark rulings, and dissenting opinions, with a statistical multivariate analysis of cases dealing with civil liberties and social rights. She argues that judges are 'embedded negotiators' who craft judgments to avoid conflict with the political wings, while also remaining mindful of their role as safe keepers of the rights of citizens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject India. Supreme Court.
SUBJECT India. Supreme Court fast
Subject Preventive detention -- India
Terrorism -- India -- Prevention
Social rights -- India
Preventive detention
Social rights
Terrorism -- Prevention
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199081998
0199081999