Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India

This essay offers an overview of how ideas of constitutionalism, rule of law and fundamental rights contributed to the development of criminal law in India. Various courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, have summoned these broad constitutional concepts to understand, interpret and develop cri...

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Main Author: DAM, Shubhankar
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-32012014-04-14T08:43:34Z Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India DAM, Shubhankar This essay offers an overview of how ideas of constitutionalism, rule of law and fundamental rights contributed to the development of criminal law in India. Various courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, have summoned these broad constitutional concepts to understand, interpret and develop criminal law doctrines. But they are also drawing on these concepts to increasingly address “structural” issues of the criminal justice system - the very apparatus responsible for implementing the doctrines. 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1249 Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Studies Constitutional Law Criminal Law
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DAM, Shubhankar
Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India
description This essay offers an overview of how ideas of constitutionalism, rule of law and fundamental rights contributed to the development of criminal law in India. Various courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, have summoned these broad constitutional concepts to understand, interpret and develop criminal law doctrines. But they are also drawing on these concepts to increasingly address “structural” issues of the criminal justice system - the very apparatus responsible for implementing the doctrines.
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title Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India
title_short Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India
title_full Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India
title_fullStr Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India
title_full_unstemmed Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India
title_sort criminal wrongs and constitutional rights: a view from india
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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