[Reader-list] Online Symposium on Judicial Review of Anti Terrorism Legislation

[Danish Sheikh]

The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 3 Online Symposium


The Board of Editors of the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law proudly
announces the release of the 3rd Edition of the Journal on October 3rd this
year. In collaboration with the Constitutional Law Society, NALSAR
University of Law, we are now delighted to organize the First Online
Symposium to mark this release.


‘Judicial Review of Anti Terrorism Legislation: The Post 9/11 Experience and
Normative Experiences for Judicial Review’ by Prof. Kent Roach will form the
subject piece of this Online Symposium. In this article, Prof.Roach examines
the inter-play between deference to the decisions of the Executive and
Legislature and existing norms of Judicial Review in a context that has
arisen of the post 9/11 era of Anti-Terrorism efforts. In doing so, he
proposes that while Judicial Review of Anti-Terrorism measures can be
justified by the need to protect the rights of unpopular minorities and the
nature of proportionality review, the surge of such efforts owing to an
increased need of security demands a certain amount of creativity in
reviewing such efforts which ought to inevitably be influenced by deference
to the decision making capacity of the other two organs of the State. This
piece is set against a background depicting the set contemporary scenario in
Anti-terrorism measures in the three major regions of India, the United
States and Europe.


Prof. Christina Eckes from the Amsterdam Centre European Law and Public
Policy, University of Amsterdam and Dr.Shylashri Shankar from the Centre for
Policy research, India will be the Primary Respondents to Prof.Roach’s
article and will challenge the propositions put forth by him as well as the
normative justifications backing them. Ms.Aparna Chandra will be an
additional Respondent to the thread.


The Online Symposium will be published on the Constitutional Law Society’s
online discussion platform at the ‘CLS Forum’ on October 11, 2009. We would
like to invite you to be a part of this discussion over the week.

Please visit our website www.ijcl.net for more details on the Online
Symposium and for access to the 3rd Volume of the Journal.

Thank you

The Board of Editors
The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law

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