This procedure is known as khula, by taking recourse to which a wife disgruntled with her marriage may initiate the process of divorce. If, at her behest, the husband divorces her, the marriage stands ...

John Goldberg will become the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean of Harvard Law School effective immediately, after serving as interim ...

Who do we trust the most when we or our loved ones are ill? The doctors. However, what if the profession we trust the most ...

Index•Synopsis•Ancient Indian Contractual Ethics in the Vedic and Dharmashastra Period•Legal Foundations of Contracts in the Classical Smriti Texts•Kautilya’s Arthashastra and the Secular Regulation o ...

The president and his supporters, and a few academics, also argue that in 1866 there was no such category as an “undocumented ...

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court overturned the state’s 1849 abortion law with a Wednesday ruling, stating that legislation since then should supersede and replace the law in a 4-3 decision. The ruling was ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the third and most controversial National Emergency in India’s constitutional history ...

Opinion: Legal scholar John Shu says a ban or restriction on direct-to-consumer drug advertisements would be illogical and ...

BR Gavai will be delivering the 11th Justice VR Krishna Iyer Memorial Law Lecture in Kochi on Sunday, July 6. The event, ...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole, has revealed that the institution’s Faculty of Law ...

This briefing note seeks to provide a short overview of significant events in the preceding month, relating to Freedom Under ...

Ramaphosa stated that in March this year, the UN Human Rights Council said the ‘world is facing a moment of profound ...