Apeksha Kachhawaha* & Kshitij Saruparia** On 11 June 2026, the Supreme Court of India decided that a tree branch falling on a stationary autorickshaw is not, legally speaking, an accident caused by the use of a motor vehicle. A municipal corporation, an insurer, and a state horticulture department had spent over a decade litigating exactly this point. In paragraph 13, the Court built a clear rule: where a vehicle plays no role beyond providing the location of an injury, no cl

*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

-Silkan Bhardwaj* In November 2025, the Assam government (“State”) tabled the Tiwari Commission Report and the unofficial Mehta Commission Report (titled as the ‘Non-Official Judicial Inquiry Commission on the Holocaust of Assam Before, During and After Election, 1983’) before the Assam State Assembly, more than four decades after the Nellie Massacre of 1983 (“Massacre”). The Massacre killed about two thousand Bangla-speaking Muslims (‘Miyas’ as the ruling government refers t

-Shubhi Agarwal & Sharvari Barve* Introduction On 26th September 2025, the MoEFCC issued a notification exempting Standalone Cement Grinding Units from Environmental Clearance requirements, arguing that it is unfair for both integrated cement plants and standalone cement plants to bear the burden of similar regulations in terms of clearance, thereby providing relaxations on the latter. These units were of the specification with a production capacity not exceeding 1.0 million