[Kritika Parakh is a third-year law student at National Law University, Jodhpur.] Suicide is perceived as a crime since long, perhaps even before the development of the legal systems in the world. The most prominent reason is the religious belief that suicide is a sin. Since the fundamental structure of the legal systems worldwide was … Continue reading Unconditional Wait for Yamraj…

[Mr. Bruce Sackman is a private investigator specializing in healthcare-related matters in New York City. Currently, he is President of the Society of Professional Investigators Inc., and has recently co-authored a book titled Behind the Murder Curtain] “We hold that Washington's death penalty is unconstitutional, as administered, because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased … Continue reading The Death Penalty – An Investigator’s Point of View

[Evangelos Stasinopoulos is currently a Judge at the Athens Court of First Instance, Greece] The present article provides an analysis of the provisions regarding the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Greece (called ‘Areios Pagos’), which have been deemed as a bar to the effective justice delivery system by the European Court of … Continue reading Is Cassation Limited by Law a Bar to Effective Justice?

[Abhirup Das has a keen interest as well as specializes in Criminal Law. He is currently an Assistant Professor at National Law University, Jodhpur.] Note: This work has been divided into multiple parts. This series of work elucidates various interrogation techniques and manuals that can be sources of knowledge for the development of interrogation manuals for Indian … Continue reading The Application of Modern Methodologies in Interrogations and Confessions [Part IV: Recommendations]

[Preeti Joseph is currently a Teaching Assistant at National Law University, Jodhpur (India)] A five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India, on 27th September 2018, gave its decision in the case of Joseph Shine v. Union of India[1] and declared Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code [“IPC”] that criminalized adultery as unconstitutional. … Continue reading Decriminalizing Adultery: The Sole Itinerary with the Supreme Court