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020			_a9781107147454 _qhbk.
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100	1		_aBhuwania, Anuj, _eauthor _91636769
245	1	0	_aCourting the people : _bpublic interest litigation and political society in post-emergency India / _cAnuj Bhuwania.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2017.
490	0		_aSouth Asia in the social sciences
520			_a"Based on empirical research, this book shows how public interest litigation (PIL) grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure, allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While PIL cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that PIL poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines PIL as part of a larger trend towards legal informalism in post-Emergency India. Casting a critical eye over these institutional reforms that aimed to adapt the colonial legal inheritance to 'Indian realities', this book looks at the challenges posed by self-consciously culturalist juridical innovations like PIL to ideas of fairness in adjudication, as well as democratic politics."--
650		0	_aPublic interest law _zIndia. _91636770
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and government _y21st century.
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