Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India (Transparency, Accountability and Independence)

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Table of Contents
Foreword
Justice Jasti Chelameswar
Introduction
I The History of Judicial Appointments in India
1. From Kania to Sarkaria: Judicial Appointments from 1950 to 1973
Suchindran B.N.
2. A Committed Judiciary: Indira Gandhi and Judicial Appointments
T.R. Andhyarujina
3. Recovering Lost Ground: The Case of the Curious Eighties
A.K. Ganguli
4. The Judicial Collegium: Issues, Controversies, and the Road Ahead
Arun Jaitley
5. A Plague on Both Your Houses: NJAC and the Crisis of Trust
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
II The Analysis of the NJAC Judgment
6. Judicial Review and Parliamentary Power: Reorienting the Balance
K.T. Thomas
7. Checks and Balances Revisited: The Role of the Executive in Judicial Appointments
Mukul Rohatgi
8. Opening up Appointments: Civil Society Participation in the NJAC
Madhavi Divan
9. The Obvious Foundation Test: Re-inventing the Basic Structure Doctrine
Raju Ramachandran and Mythili Vijay Kumar Thallam
10. Eight Fatal Flaws: The Failings of the National Judicial Appointments Commission
Arvind Datar
11. The Sole Route to an Independent Judiciary?: The Primacy of Judges in Appointment
Gautam Bhatia
12. Justice Lokur's Concurring View: The Future of Appointments Reform
Alok Prasanna Kumar
13. Justice Chelameswar's Dissent: Reforming to Preserve
Arghya Sengupta
14. The NJAC Case and Judicial Independence: Conceptual and Contextual Safeguards
Gopal Subramanium
III Comparative Perspectives
15. Comparative Law in the NJAC Judgment: A Missed Opportunity
Suhrith Parthasarathy
16. Judicialization of Judicial Appointments?: A Response from the United Kingdom
Chintan Chandrachud
17. South Africa-Analysing a Commission Model
Chris McConnachie
18. Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada: Procedures and Controversies
Peter McCormick
19. Judicial Appointments in Pakistan: The Seminal Case of the 18th Amendment
Sameer Khosa
20. Judicial Appointments in Sri Lanka: A Politicized Trajectory
Rehan Abeyratne
21. Appointments to the Supreme Court of Nepal: A New Beginning
Semanta Dahal
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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Author Details
Edited by
Arghya Sengupta
Ritwika Sharma