Commentaries by Manoj Mate

A Challenge to Judicial Independence in India: The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)

July 23, 2015 08:00:24 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Manoj Mate of Whittier Law School discusses the National Judicial Appointments Commission...Over the past months, the political whirlwinds surrounding efforts by Narendra Modi's BJP government to change India's judicial appointments system have given way to a storm...

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