The Indian Supreme Court’s identity crisis: a constitutional court or a court of appeals?
This article presents an empirical analysis of the Supreme Court’s discretionary appellate jurisdiction (triggered by a “special leave petition” or “SLP”). Based on an analysis of 1100 randomly selected civil SLP cases spread over 11 years, it argues that its expansive SLP docket has cannibalized th...
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Routledge
2020
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