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Part I - The Supreme Court of India – An Institutional Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2019

Edited by
Gerald N. Rosenberg ,
Sudhir Krishnaswamy  and
Shishir Bail
Gerald N. Rosenberg
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Affiliation:
Azim Premji University, Bangalore
Shishir Bail
Affiliation:
Azim Premji University, Bangalore
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Summary

The Indian Supreme Court sits in panels and can have up to 31 judges. This chapter explores how the Indian Supreme Court developed its current structure and the impact of this structure on its functioning. It argues that the Supreme Court’s structure has a range of inter-related effects that includes increasing access to the Court, producing a “polyvocal” jurisprudence that destabilizes stare decisis, spurring experimentation among judges, fostering a “Chief Justice dominant” Court, and reducing the perceived partisanship of judges. Mapping the structure of the Court, as well as the Court’s relationship with the rest of the judiciary, helps us appreciate how judges ultimately interpret the law and the Constitution not in isolation, but within a larger judicial architecture.

Keywords

Indian Supreme Courtjudicial structurejudicial processIndiaSupreme Courtempiricaldataopinionscasesjudgeslitigantsstatisticsoverviewpublic interest litigationPILIndiaSupreme Courtbeneficiary inequalityPIL usesuo motuSupreme Court of Indiapublic interest litigationjudicial activismBirbhumjudiciaryIndiatrustsocial transformationcounter-majoritarian hypothesisSupreme Courtlegitimacy
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A Qualified Hope
The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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