Review of Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India by Anuj Bhuwania

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Title: Review of Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India by Anuj Bhuwania

Published on: June 15, 2018

Published in: International Journal of Constitutional Law

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Aparna Chandra

Dr. Aparna Chandra

Sympathetic to Bhuwania’s concerns about the “protean nature” of PIL, and the kinds of judicial politics it has produced, Dr. Chandra uses the opportunity to review the book to interrogate PIL further, and to reflect upon how we should theorise the practice of PIL and the deployment of judicial power more generally.