9781107444348

NEW NEW NEW NEW Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy

Size : 230mm x 150mm • Pages : xviii+259pp

• Year : 2014 • Binding : Paperback • ISBN : 9781107444348 • Price ` 495.00 only

PRESIDENTIAL LEGISLATION IN INDIA The Law and Practice of Ordinances Shubhankar Dam Shubhankar Dam is an Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University School of Law.

PRESIDENTIAL LEGISLATION IN INDIA The Law and Practice of Ordinances Shubhankar Dam India has a parliamentary system. Yet the president has authority to occasionally enact legislation (or ordinances) without involving parliament. This book is a study of ordinances at the national level in India, centred around three themes. First, it tells the story of how an artifact of British constitutional history, over time, became part of India’s legislative system.

Second, it offers an empirical account of the ways in which presidents have resorted to ordinances in post-independence India. Third, the book analyses a range of ordinance-related questions, including some that are yet to be judicially adjudicated. In the process, the book explains why much of the Indian Supreme Court’s jurisprudence is mistaken and what should take its place. Overall, the book explains why the fate of parliamentary reforms in India may be tied to the reform of the provision for ordinances.

Standing at the intersection of constitutional law and political science, Presidential Legislation in India offers a new frame through which to assess executives’ legislative powers in both parliamentary and presidential systems.

CONTENTS List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Alternatives to Parliamentary Legislation Part I: Origins and Practice 1. The Transplant Effect: Early Origins of Ordinances in England and India; 2. Legislative Surrogacy: Cabinets and Ordinances, 1952-2009 Part II: Law and Interpretation 3. Negotiating the Text: Ordinances, Article 123 and the Interpretative Deficit; 4. Reading Minds: Presidential Satisfaction and Judicial Review of Ordinances; 5. The Power of No: Presidents, Cabinets and the Making of Ordinances Conclusion: ‘Edwardian’ Reading of Ordinances Bibliography Index

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05/2014