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6 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 29 (2001)
Judicial Activism: The Indian Experience

handle is hein.journals/wajlp6 and id is 33 raw text is: Judicial Activism: The Indian Experience' S.P. Sathe** I. HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ........................... 30 A. Judicial Process: Nature .............................................. 31 B. Judicial Review in the United States ............................. 37 C. Judicial Review in India ............................................... 38 D. Judicial Activismn fi-om 1950 to 1975 ............................ 40 II. POST-EMERGENCY ACTIVISM: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ............. 43 A. The Fundamental Rights Case: Judicial Surrender ........... 43 B. The End of Emergency and Elections ........................... 48 C. Post-Emergency Activism: Atonement for the Past or Self-Legitimization for the Future? ............................... 49 D. Article 21: Life, Liberty, and Due Process of Law ..... 51 E. Personal Liberty ........................................................... 57 F. Procedure Established by Law ..................................... 57 G. Original Understanding and Constitutional Interpretation ................................................................. 59 H. Article 21 and the Right to Honest and Efficient Governnance ................................................................. 60 I. The Right to Equality: Article 14 .................................. 60 HI. GROWTH OF PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION: ACCESS TO AND DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE JUDICIAL PROCESS ....................... 63 A. Paradigm of Public Lmv Judicial Process .................... 65 B. Prematurity ................................................................... 66 C. Writ Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the High Courts .......................................................................... 67 D. Delay: Grounds For Refusal of Judicial Review .......... 68 * This Article is a revised and abridged version of four articles of the author published in Volume 10 and I I of the Journal ofIndian School ofPolitical Economy(1998 & 1999). The book containing expanded versions of the original articles with additional material and chapters is in the offing. See S.P. SATHE, JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN INDIA: TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND ENFORCING LImrs (OUP India, 2001). ** The author is the Honorable Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Pune, India, and was formerly the Dean of the ILS Law College, Pune, India.

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