Scaling Justice
Subtitle: India's Supreme Court, Social Rights and Civil Liberties
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780195693201
Subjects: Terrorism, prevention; Constitutional courts; Courts, india
Description: What explains the choices that India's Supreme Court justices make? Shankar addresses this question by combining a textured qualitative analysis of the constitutional and legal framework, landmark rulings, and dissenting opinions, with a statistical multivariate analysis of cases dealing with civil liberties and social rights. She argues that judges are 'embedded negotiators' who craft judgments to avoid conflict with the political wings, while also remaining mindful of their role as safe keepers of the rights of citizens.