Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Legal systems are hierarchical constructions, some taller and deeper, some shallower, and commonly portrayed as an orderly pyramid.Sometimes an incident in this hierarchic landscape reminds us that, as in a game of snakes and ladders, there may be startling and unexpected connections (and disconnects) between different locations in the system.I want to talk about such an instance, initiated by the Supreme Court of India on January 24, 2014. 1 It led to a judgment delivered two months later, on March 28, by a three judge bench 2 presided over by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, who had ascended to the Chief Justiceship (by the rule of seniority) on July 19, 2013, and was anticipating compulsory retirement in just four weeks, on April 26, 2014. 3(This was the culmination of a judicial career of more than six years on the Supreme Court, preceded by eleven years of service on two High Courts.On September 4,
Source: FIU Law Review
Author: Marc Galanter
Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1851195622