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A lawyer dons his robe, and with that he dons many a hats, that of a thinker, an activist, areformer, a policy maker, a freedom fighter and many more. These are some lawyers whoadorned these roles with such panache, that the Government of India issued postal stampscommemorating their contributions to

The great concern shown by public-men, politicians, jurists and judges and all and sundry about the speedy disposal of pending cases in the Indian Courts and dispensation of cheap justice to the indigent and the poor has proved to be a non-starter. The arrears continue to be mounting and the

Relevance and justification A pessimist has described India as a land of problems, but among the myriad problems that have beset our country since Independence, the problem of combating fissiparious tendencies and divisive forces of casteism and communalism that tend to destory our national unity and interity must receive top

Philosophy has always been a powerful instrument in the armoury of law. Jurisprudence, in its specific sense, is the theory or philosophy of law, that is to say, its fundamental principles and conceptions rather than its practical and concrete details. Jurisprudence is, therefore, a branch of philosophy and the insight

I am profoundly grateful to Dean Hafeezul Rahman for inviting me to inaugurate the Ninth Annual All India Law Teachers' Conference. I confess of having at first a feeling of hesitation in accepting the invitation, for, belonging to the practising branch of lawyers I felt that I could not

Text of the Sri K. T. Vetrivelu Mudliar Memorial Endowment Lecture delivered at Coimbatore. I am grateful to the Coimbatore Bar Association for inviting me to deliver the Sri K. T. Vetrivelu Mudliar Memorial Endowment Lecture. Why? Because this gives me an occasion to dwell on a great man and