National Law School Journal - Volume 9

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CONTENTS Editorial ARTICLES O. Chinnappa Reddy The court and the constitution - 1950·1996: Peaks and depths 1. Kenneth S. Gallant Sovereignty, judicial assistance and protection of human rights in international criminal tribunals 20 Vikram Raghavan The legality of nuclear weapons cases: The world court sits on the fence 30 NOTES AND COMMENTS Kenneth Kaoma Mwcnda Regional control of international finance in southern and eastern Africa 68 Siddharth Raja Nation states and the regulation of transnational finance 84 V. Nagaraj The relevance of the appropriate government's power of reference under section 10(1) of the Industrial Disputes Act. 1947 in a liberalised economy 92 A.G. Alias Elected chief executive for stability and progress: Reflections on constitutional reform 99 Menaka Guruswamy Distributive justice: "Of Nozick. Rawls and Indian constitutional law jurisprudence" 109 Biswajit Chatterjce Environmcntal impoverishment and the crisis or development 120 M.R. Srikrishnan Environmental impact assessment - The way to the future 126 T.R. Sivaramjani Evolution of the international legal norm: A case study of the legal regime over human genome research 135 Nikhil Narayanan Rethinking the law of negligence and recklessness 142 Shreyas Jayasimha Freeing the airwaves 150 Shuva Mandai Sudhir Krishna Women and Panchayat Raj: The law and the practices 157 CASE COMMENTS Shyam Divan Bharat Forge, Humpty Dumpty and the Emperor's new clothes 164 Arvind Narain The Hindutva judgments: A comment 174 Mathew John Vikramjit Banerjee The Hindutva judgments: A rejoinder 178 Sumeet Malik BOOK REVIEW Sunil John The nationalist history redefined