Tuesday, January 27, 2026

[Update] CLP Piece on Presidential Reference No. 1 of 2025

The Presidential Reference No. 1 of 2025 has attracted sustained commentary, ranging from questions of maintainability to its substantive holdings. In a new piece on Mr. Gautam Bhatia's Constitutional Law and Philosophy blog, I focus on the Court’s reasoning in responding to the charge that the reference was, in substance, an “appeal in disguise”, and argue that it's response is troubling in and of itself.

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The perils of mechanical reasoning (on minority status indiciums and their interpretation)

A recent post on the Law and Other Things blog applies the Supreme Court’s decision in Aligarh Muslim University v. Naresh Agarwal (...