Introduction On 23rd September 2026, a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma delivered a split verdict in Jaya Thakur v. Union of India, the batch of petitions challenging the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 (“the 2023 Act”). The Bench was split on the question of whether the challenge must be heard by a constitutional benc

Introduction On 16th April 2026, 230 out of 528 participating Lok Sabha members voted against the passing of the Delimitation Bill, 2026 alongside the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 (“the Amendment Bill, 2026”). Broadly, the two bills proposed the following changes: First, the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha was sought to be increased from 550 to 850 members; Second, a fresh delimitation exercise was sought to be conducted based on the most recent figures of the

*Prof. Paul Koster During the summer of 2026, while serving as a Fulbright Specialist at National Law University Jodhpur in India, I was asked to give a speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States. As I considered what meaningful commemoration should entail, I found myself returning to a framework that shapes the way I introduce constitutional law to students. In 1987, as the United States prepared to commemorate the 200th anniversary of its Constitution,

*Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV There is a familiar way of introducing separation of powers: place legislative, executive, and judicial power in three boxes and draw lines between them. That picture is useful as far as it goes, but it leaves out the question that matters most here. Who decides what a branch's authority means when the branch itself is the one pressing the claim? The difficulty is not only that powers may overlap. It is that an institution may come to define

Devansh Awasthi* Introduction “The fact of motherhood must not be regarded as an impediment.” It was with this declaration that the High Court of Delhi placed the Indian sports administration under constitutional standards. In Vinesh Phogat v. Wrestling Federation of India & Ors. (“Vinesh Phogat“), a question arose as to whether or not an athlete returning from maternity leave would be allowed to compete in trials for the Asian Games 2026. The interim order dated May 22, 2026

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and the Centre for Constitutional and Administrative Law (CCAL), National Law University, Jodhpur, with the support of the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), organised the International Symposium on Representative Governance on 1 August 2026. Held during the Fulbright Specialist visit of Prof. Paul Koster, Professor of Practice at Emory University School of Law, the symposium sought to promote comparative constitutio