Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:One year ago today, July 11, 2006, a day Indians call 7/11 (or 11/7), seven coordinated blasts within fifteen minutes tore through rail cars on Mumbai's suburban railway killing 187 people. Nineteen suspects...
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Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:The directives and writs of PILs and the hearings of PILs in court are regular news in India today. The PIL movement was begun by the Supreme Court in 1978. The '70s were...
Eric Linge, Pitt law '09, files from Mumbai:The Indian Supreme Court has made itself into possibly the most powerful apex court in the world. As addressed in "India: Judicially Independent," below on this page, the Indian Supreme Court held in...
Andrew Wood, Pitt Law '08, files from Manila:The Philippines is a fascinating place to spend the summer. The country is confronted with a constant and complex problem of migration, an issue that the government is struggling to solve. Well-educated Filipinos...
Ryan Olden, Pitt Law '10, files from Prishtina:The former Yugoslavia was a federal country comprised of many different ethnicities - Slovenes, Bosnians, Serbs, and Albanians and others. After the death of strongman Josip Tito in 1980, the federation began to...
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:While Pakistani Prime Minister Musharraf sacks Chief Justices who disagree with him, and while Bangladesh continues under emergency military rule, India's judiciary remains steadfastly independent. So steadfastly, in fact, the Indian Supreme Court...
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: If you've seen Mission Impossible 2 you remember Tom Cruise hanging from the cliff by one arm. Chances are you've never seen the Telugu-language version of the same film, where a fat,...
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:Outbursts of communal violence are common in India. There are Maoist insurgents in the jungles. There are 23 different separatist militias in the eastern hill states. And as I reported in prior weeks,...
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:Settling in Mumbai after having spent my first quarter century in the U.S., I have quickly developed a new personal pricing index. What I mean is, a $4 lunch is now a rather...
Eric Sutton, Pitt Law '09, files from Prishtina:When discussing independence, the property rights of Serbian internally-displaced people are an understated cause of conflict between Kosovo and Serbia. As the war raged on, many Serbians understandably fled north to escape the...
