Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre
– A List
PILSARC was a trust which published papers for circulation. Some of these papers were published in Journals and Newspapers or circulated widely on request. Most of these were written by Rajeev Dhavan and used for Friday evening discussions.
No attempt has been made to disaggregate published from non-published to retain the totality at a glance.
List of Working Papers
I. First Series (until December 1999) | |
| 1. | Conquest by Patents – The Paris Convention Revisited |
| 2. | Whose Interest? India’s Patent Laws and Policy |
| 3. | Power without Responsibility: On Aspects of the Indian Patent Legislation |
| 4. | Making the World Fit for Prey: GATT and Intellectual Property Rights |
| 5. | Mining Policy in India |
| 6. | Mining Leases in India |
| 7. | GATT Proposals – Uruguay Round: States versus Union of India – A Legal Opinion |
| 8. | Proliferating Non-Innovative Drugs While Profiteering from Life and Death: India’s Response to the American Pharmaceutical Industry |
| 9. | Subsidising the Rich while Starving the Poor – An Analysis |
| 10. | Law as Struggle – Notes on Public Interest Law in India |
| 11. | The Unbearable Lightness of India’s Legal Aid Programme |
| 12. | To Be or Not to Be: Implementing the Legal Services and Authorities Act, 1987 |
| 13. | Enforcing Legal Aid through Courts |
| 14. | Democracy and the GATT Negotiations |
| 15. | Political Mandate or Texts of Justice: India’s Bill of Rights |
| 16. | Human Rights and Socialism |
| 17. | The Jurisprudence of Human Rights |
| 18. | More is Not Always More: Unto Us a Human Rights Commission is Given – But Why? |
| 19. | Law as Concern and Concern about Law: Reflecting On ‘Law and Development’ |
| 20. | Tidy Institutions, Untidy Discourse, Conversations On Human Rights – Discourse In India’s Constituent Assembly |
| 21. | So, Whose State is It Anyway? Indian Dilemmas |
| 22. | Ambedkar’s Prophesy: Human Rights in India |
| 23. | The Patent Monopoly and Free Trade: the Basic Contradictions in the Dunkel Draft |
| 24. | Implementing Panchayat Raj |
| 25. | A Decade of the Indian Patent Act, 1970 |
| 26. | India and Litigation in the Canvass of Legal Research in India: Exploring Some Tentative Ideas on Legal Research |
| 27. | Human Rights Commission Bill, 1993: A Preliminary Response |
| 28. | Computer Software Protection: An Analysis of American Jurisprudence |
| 29. | The Legal Aid Bill: A Fraud on the Constitution |
| 30. | Mining Law |
| 31. | Legality of Recruitment, Promotion and Career Growth: Patterns in Coal India Limited |
| 32. | Public Funded R&D and its Patenting in India |
| 33. | Why Why the Human Rights Commission Bill, 1993 must be sent to a Joint Committee? |
| 34. | Human Rights Commission Should Be Sent To A Joint Committee – A Summary |
| 35. | Changes in Company Law |
| 36. | Memorandum to the Joint Committee on the Constitution (Eightieth Amendment) Bill, 1993, and the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 1993 |
| 37. | Memorandum to the Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs on the Human Rights Commission Bill, 1993 |
| 38. | Human Rights Commission Statement and Proposals |
| 39. | Environmental Litigation |
| 40. | Submission on the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 |
| 41. | Supplementary Memorandum on the Amendments to the Constitution |
| 42. | Privatising Indian Airlines Routes |
| 43. | How Disability Invites Destitution: An Analysis of the Market System of Health Insurance |
| 44. | The Profitability of Peril: An Analysis of the Market System of Liability |
| 45. | The Protection of Human Rights Ordinance, 1993 |
| 46. | Has the Government Forgotten Bhopal? Reflections on the National Environment Tribunal Bill, 1992 |
| 47. | Super 301 and India: An Analysis of the U.S. Allegations of “Unfair” Foreign Practices |
| 48. | Products Liability: An Analysis of American Jurisprudence |
| 49. | Technology Transfer: How to Structure a Licensing Agreement under U.S. Law |
| 50. | Diluting Food Safety Standards: An Analysis of the Harmonisation Rules in the Draft Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multinational Trade Negotiations |
| 51. | Notes on Towards an Understanding of the ‘Final Treaty’ of the Uruguay Round of the GATT Negotiations |
| 52. | Preliminary Outline of Submission to the People’s Commission on GATT (First) |
| 53. | Written Submission to the People’s Commission on GATT (Second) |
| 54. | Written Submission to the People’s Commission on GATT (Third) |
| 55. | Written Submission to the People’s Commission on GATT (Fourth) |
| 56. | Written Submission to the People’s Commission on GATT (Fifth) |
| 57. | On the Working of the Patents Act, 1970 (1970 – 1993) |
| 58. | Patent by Another Name: An Analysis of the (Draft) Plant Varieties Protection Act, 1993, and its International Compulsions |
| 59. | Police Misconduct in India: Accountability and Compensation |
| 60. | “(T)o die, to sleep; and, then, perchance, to dream…”: The Supreme Court on Suicide |
| 61. | The Press Council as Super Editor: V. N. Gadgil’s Right to Reply Bill |
| 62. | The Promise of Human Rights: Courts, Institutions and Processes |
| 63. | The Ayodhya Judgment – A Preliminary Analysis |
| 64. | The Ayodhya Judgment – A Juristically Expensive Victory – Encoding Secularism in the Law |
| 65. | An Incomplete Measure: The Public Records Act, 1993 |
| 66. | Supreme Court in India – Ram Jethmalani |
| 67. | Ordinance Raj |
| 68. | Patent Ordinance – A Resume and Comment |
| 69. | One Step Forward: First Report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) |
| 70. | Conquering the Plant Kingdom: The UPOV Convention |
| 71. | Draft Plant Varieties Bill: Protection or Auction |
| 72. | Rights of the Child |
| 73. | Abolition of Slavery and Bonded Labour |
| 74. | The Ambivalence of the Dialogue between International Forum and Regional Agenda on the Subject of Penal Reform |
| 75. | The Wealth of Nations: Land, Forest and People – Notes on the Draft Conservation of Forests and Natural Ecosystems Act |
| 76. | Copyright Amendment Act, 1994 |
| 77. | Changes in Securities Regulation (SEBI) |
| 78. | Labour Law in India: An Overview |
| 79. | Amending the Patents Act, 1970 in the Light of the GATT Negotiations |
| 80. | Proposal of the State of Uttar Pradesh to set up a State Press Council |
| 81. | Turning the Controversy Round (A Note on TADA) |
| 82. | Changes Required in the New TADA |
| 83. | TADA: Government Amendments in the Rajya Sabha |
| 84. | The New TADA – A Fraud on the People (Note on the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1995, or the New TADA) |
| 85. | Human Rights in (Un)civil Society |
| 86. | The New TADA: A Summary |
| 87. | The Tehri Dam: A Safety and Ecological Hazard |
| 88. | The Tehri Project: An Overview |
| 89. | Technical Aspects of the Tehri Dam |
| 90. | The Tehri Project: Some Reflections on Democratic Accountability |
| 91. | Repression of Satyagraha: The Tehri Story |
| 92. | Contrived Conflicts: The Idgah Maidan Affair |
| 93. | On the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1994: Copyright, Copycat and the Right to Copy |
| 94. | The Merit Promotion in Universities Judgment – A Legal Aide de Memoire |
| 95. | Uniform Civil Code: Political Reaction to it |
| 96. | The Rathong Chu Controversy (Sustainable Development Programmes in Sikkim) |
| 97. | India’s Constitution: 1994 |
| 98. | Judges and the Constitution |
| 99. | Submissions on the Trade Marks Bill, 1995 |
| 100. | The Other Rights |
| 101. | Caught in a Midlife Crisis (Judiciary and the Law) |
| 102. | Tables Pertaining to Working of Patents Law in India |
| 103. | Right to Environment |
| 104. | Married Women’s Right to Protection Bill |
| 105. | The Marriage Bill: 1994 |
| 106. | The Domestic Violence to Women (Prevention) Bill, 1994 |
| 107. | Hindutva |
| 108. | Lay Magistracy |
| 109. | Victim Evidence: An Introductory Exploration |
| 110. | Censorship: Preliminary Submission in the Matter of A. B. Corp. Ltd. v. Om Pal Singh and Others |
| 111. | The Supreme Court as Problem Solver: The Mandal Controversy |
| 112. | One More Step? A Comment on the Second Annual Report of the NHRC, 1994 – 1995 |
| 113. | Federalism: The Next Generation |
| 114. | Suicide or Right to Die: Law and Society |
| 115. | Presidents, Prime Ministers and Hung Parliaments |
| 116. | The President Abdicates His Duty |
| 117. | Ayodhya: The Article 138 Solution |
| 118. | Thinking through Secularism: Reflecting on the Destruction of the Babri Masjid |
| 119. | Identification of Dain (Prevention) Act, 1995: An Opinion |
| 120. | The Wildlife Act: Need for Amendment |
| 121. | Notified and Un-notified Sanctuaries and Parks: Need for Immediate Reform |
| 122. | Coalition and Discontents |
| 123. | Lessons from Tehri |
| 124. | Freedom of Information: Who Says Legislation is Indispensable? |
| 125. | When Should Indian Politicians Retire? |
| 126. | Sexual Offences under the Penal Code: Suggestions for Change |
| 127. | Information Now |
| 128. | Indian Federalism and its Discontents |
| 129. | Indian Federalism: Text and Materials – A Resume |
| 130. | Patents and World War III |
| 131. | Uttarakhand: Imaginary Discontents |
| 132. | A Short Note on Judicial Activism |
| 133. | Promises, Promises…Human Rights in India |
| 134. | Treaties and People: Indian Reflections |
| 135. | India’s Constitution: 1995 |
| 136. | Statement of General Principles on Ethical Considerations Involved in Research on Human Subjects |
| 137. | The Temple at Vaishno Devi |
| 138. | Supreme Court and the Environment: 1996 |
| 139. | Child Abuse: Legal Perspectives |
| 140. | Television and People: On Why the Governments Approach is Anti-democracy and Anti-people |
| 141. | Notes on the Proposed Public Interest Law Bill |
| 142. | Memorandum and Material on Torture |
| 143. | Television and People: An Overview |
| 144. | Highway Robbery: A Note on the National Highways Laws (Amendment) Ordinance |
| 145. | The Inequity of Land Acquisition: A Comment on the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 1996 |
| 146. | Another Step: Notes on the Third Annual Report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) 1995 – 1996 |
| 147. | Environment Justice by Tribunal: Comment on the National Environment Appellant Authority Act, 1997 |
| 148. | T. N. Godavarman v. Union of India |
| 149. | Truth, Love and a Little Malice: Maneka Gandhi v. Khushwant Singh |
| 150. | Recent Threats to the Rajiv Gandhi National Park in Nagarahole, Karnataka |
| 151. | To Reserve or not to Reserve? Representing Women in Legislature |
| 152. | The Broadcasting Bill, 1997: A Submission to Parliament |
| 153. | Classification, Vetting and Preliminary Summary Disposal of the Complaints before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) – A Note |
| 154. | Damages in Public Law |
| 155. | The Lesser Evil? Judges and Indian Democracy |
| 156. | The Indian Constitution: 1996 |
| 157. | Judge and be Judged: India’s Judiciary – An Institution of Governance |
| 158. | Women and Armed Conflict |
| 159. | Constitution Change |
| 160. | Prisoners Wages Reforms |
| 161. | A Constitution for a Civilisation |
| 162. | India: The Year of the Law |
| 163. | Reservations for Women |
| 164. | Rethinking the Working of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC): A Note |
| 165. | Cancellation of the World Commission Meeting On Dams, 1998: A Legal Aide de Memoire |
| 166. | The Third Judges Case |
| 167. | Submission against the Grant of Injunction for a Non-existent Defamation – Dr. Prabha Manchanda v. Samira Kohli and Madhu Kishwar |
| 168. | Step by Step Notes on the Fourth Annual Report of The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), 1996 – 1997 |
| 169. | Peoples Commission on Patents |
| 170. | Judicial Activism I |
| 171. | Judicial Activism II |
| 172. | The Insurance Bonanza |
| 173. | Despots and Humans |
| 174. | The Lampur Report |
| 175. | Impending Menace of Diesel |
| 176. | Conference on Refugee Law and Policy: A Report |
| 177. | India’s Constitution: 1997 |
| 178. | Secularism: Road to Xanadu |
| 179. | The Supreme Court and Group Life |
| 180. | Criminals or MPs |
| 181. | Judicial Activism III |
| 182. | Judicial Activism IV |
| 183. | Aide de Memoire on Financial Autonomy for NGO’s: Repeal The FCRA, 1976 |
| 184. | Aide de Memoire for NHRC |
| 185. | Elections and Exit Polls |
| 186. | World Bank Policy Research Papers |
| 187. | India’s Constitution: 1998 |
| 188. | Part-time Member of the Prasar Bharati |
| 189. | Christians in India |
II. Millennium Series(Second Series After January 2000) | |
| 190. | The Millennium: Metaphor or Reality? Government and Human Rights in the 21st Century |
| 191. | Into the Next Millennium |
| 192. | Midnight To Millennium: A Metaphor Looking For a Purpose |
| 193. | In the Matter of Brij Raj Meena v. State Of Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad High Court) and Matters Connected Thereto: An Aide de Memoire To the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) |
| 194. | The Indian Constitution |
| 195. | Asylum for the Karmapa |
| 196. | The Wealth of Nations Revisited |
| 197. | In the Matter of Ram Kanwar, Santo, Kamlesh and the NHRC: Aide de Memoire on Certain Cases Referred by the NHRC |
| 198. | In the Matter of Consumer Education Research Society v. Union of India |
| 199. | Justice – But For Whom? |
| 200. | The Civil Service and the RSS: A Note |
| 201. | Injustice to Farmers– Comment on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Bill, 1999 |
| 202. | Submission to the Lok Sabha on the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Bill, 1999 |
| 203. | Submission to the Rajya Sabha on the Patents (Second Amendment) Bill, 1999 |
| 204. | Changing the Constitution: But Why? |
| 205. | The Millennial Review of the Indian Constitution |
| 206. | The Lawyers’ Strike |
| 207. | The Thin End of the Wedge (Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1998) |
| 208. | Old TADA And New TADA: A Brief Note |
| 209. | Official Secrecy: The Colonial Legacy |
| 210. | Right to Know: A Guaranteed Constitutional Right |
| 211. | The Public Records Act: A Critique |
| 212. | Right to Information: Principles and Strategy |
| 213. | Freedom of Information Bill, 2000: An Appraisal |
| 214. | Information Now: Need for a New Strategy |
| 215. | Freedom of Information in the USA |
| 216. | The Sahyog Affair |
| 217. | PILSARC’s Training Programmes: An Internal Note |
| 218. | PILSARC’s Alternative to the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Bill, 2000 |
| 219. | India’s Constitution: 1999 |
| 220. | A Constitution for a Civilisation: India’s Constitution and its Discontents |
| 221. | Autonomy not Secession |
| 222. | Reservations for Women |
| 223. | Public Spaces and Private Lives: The Domain of the Law |
| 224. | Ayodhya: 2001 |
| 225. | A Seven-Point Agenda for Kashmir |
| 226. | Propositions on Casteism, Racism and the Need for Effective Action |
| 227. | Law’s Magic and Empire Revisited: Public Spaces and Private Lives – The Domain of the Law |
| 228. | An Afterword on an Afterthought: On the Proposal to Amend the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 |
| 229. | Strengthening Capabilities: Reflecting on the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) Fifth Annual Report, 1997 – 1998 |
| 230. | Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Reflecting on the National Human Rights Commission’s Sixth Annual Report, 1998 – 1999 |
| 231. | Madhya Pradesh’s Draconian Law: An Inroad into Democracy, Due Process and Civil Liberties |
| 232. | Who Will be the Custodian of the Custodians: The Sad, Incomplete and Politically Contrived Story of Central Vigilance Commission Legislation |
| 233. | The Lokpal Experiment in India: A Hitch Hikers Guide From 1966 to 2001 |
| 234. | The Lokpal Bill, 2001: An Introductory Critique |
| 235. | The Rewriting of Indian Democracy: The Role of NGOs |
| 236. | No Justification for TADA |
| 237. | Assault on Ayodhya |
| 238. | The Making of a Police State? |
| 239. | Refugees and the Law in India |
| 240. | Joint Session of Parliament for the Purpose of Enacting POTO |
| 241. | The Patents (Second Amendment) Bill, 1999 |
| 242. | The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance |
| 243. | Anti-terrorism Law – Reform the Criminal Justice Administration or Change the Criminal Justice System? |
| 244. | The Death of a Legend |
| 245. | Towards a Secular State |
| 246. | Delayed Trial: A Preliminary Study |
| 247. | Documenting Cultural Heritage for its Conservation |
| 248. | The Consumer Revolution |
| 249. | The Election Commission on the Gujarat Elections |
| 250. | Minorities – the T. M. A. Pai Decision |
| 251. | Finding Direction Again: Reflecting on the Seventh Annual Report of the National Human Rights Commission, 1999 – 2000 |
| 252. | Stabilising the Past: Reviewing the Eighth Annual Report of the National Human Rights Commission: 2000 – 2001 |
| 253. | “(T)o die, to sleep; and, then, perchance, to dream…”: The Supreme Court on Suicide, Part I: The First Suicide Judgement |
| 254. | “(T)o die, to sleep; and, then, perchance, to dream…”: The Supreme Court on Suicide, Part I: The Second Suicide Judgement |
| 255. | On the Model Law for Refugees: A Response to the National Human Rights Commission |
| 256. | Justice, Justice and the Best Bakery Case |
| 257. | The Babri Masjid Subterranean Fishing Expedition |
| 258. | The Criminal (In)justice System |
| 259. | Riots as Murder – Re-examining the Best Bakery Case |
| 260. | Riots as Murder – The Best Bakery Case |
| 261. | You Know I Know You Know I Know You Know: Information and Democracy in India |
| 262. | Private Lives and Public Reputations – The Career and Prospects of the Law of Defamation in India |
| 263. | Federalism in Transition: Legislative and Executive Federalism in India |
| 264. | Refugee Protection by Executive Action |
| 265. | Maldives: Governance without the Rule of Law |
| 266. | The National Employment Guarantee Bill, 2004: A Critique |
| 267. | The Rewriting of Indian Federalism: Constitutional Amendments, Statutory Changes and The Executive Power Revisited |
| 268. | Indian Subcontinent: An Overview of the Law |
| 269. | A Critique of the Contempt of Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2004 |
| 270. | Censorship and Intolerance in India |
| 271. | A Note on Indian Law regarding the Evidentiary Value of Confessions Obtained by Torture |
| 272. | Crisis in Nepal |
| 273. | Ostracism by Visa: the Narendra Modi Fiasco |
| 274. | Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant: A Critique of the Right to Information Bill |
| 275. | The Role of the Union Government in Censoring Textbooks |
| 276. | The Religious Freedom of Jehovah’s Witnesses in India |
| 277. | Hate, Spite and Unpopular Speech |
| 278. | India: An Ongoing Experiment to Redefine Federalism |
| 279. | Constitutions and Kings: a Critique of the Proposed Constitution of Bhutan |
| 280. | Contempt of Court and the Press |
| 281. | Executive and Legislative Federalism in India |
| 282. | The Law of Retrenchment in India in the light of various interpretations of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1948 |
| 283. | An Overview of the Law of Extradition in India |
| 284. | Illegal Migrants in India: Analysis and Aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Sarbananda Sonowal’s Case |
| 285. | Re: Strengthening the Criminal Provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 |
| 286. | On Establishing a Statutory Basis to Create Tiger Reserves in India |
| 287. | Eklavya’s Dream: Equal Educational Opportunities in an Unequal Society |
| 288. | Flight from the Hills: Internal Displacement and Refugee Concerns in Nepal |
| 289. | An Analysis of the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005 |
| 290. | In the Aftermath of Godhra: Legal Proposals to Confront Communal Violence in India |
| 291. | Confronting Communalism: the Communal Violence Bill, 2005 |
| 292. | Arguments, Protests, Strikes and Free Speech: The Career and Prospects of the Right to Strike in India |
| 293. | The Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Protection) Bill, 2006: A Revised Proposal for the Model National Law on Refugee Protection |
| 294. | Re: the Law Governing Agricultural Credit in India |
| 295. | Protecting the Forgotten and Excluded: Statelessness in South Asia |
| 296. | Food Safety for Sale: the Food Safety and Standards Bill, 2005 |
| 297. | Re: Proposed Changes in the Foreigners Act |
| 298. | Re: The Judges (Inquiry) Bill, 2006 |
| 299. | A Brief Examination of the Micro Finance Bill, 2007 |
| 300. | Adding Insult to Injury: the Rajasthan Dharma Swatantrya Bill, 2006 |
| 301. | Re: the Governor’s Powers with regard to the Rajasthan Conversion Bill |
| 302. | The Chhattisgarh Communal Circular, 2006: Fundamentalist Hinduism Finds Official Expression in Chhattisgarh |
| 303. | Re: Changes in the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights Bill), 2005 |
| 304. | Hate Speech Revisited: the ‘Toon’ Controversy |
| 305. | Protecting Refugees: Entitlements or Welfare |
| 306. | Conversion and Communalism |
| 307. | Harassing Hussain: Uses and Abuses of the Law of Free Speech |
| 308. | A Note on Indian Law regarding the Admissibility of Torture Induced Evidence |
| 309. | A Briefing Paper on the Seeds Bill, 2004 |
| 310. | The Right to Information Act, 2005 and the ‘File Notings’ Controversy |
| 311. | The Legal and Constitutional Position on Offices of Profit |
| 312. | Implications of the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between India and the USA |
| 313. | The Consultation and Ratification of Treaties Bill, 2007: a Legislative Proposal for Accountability and Participation in the Treaty Making Process |