C. Raj Kumar on the origin of human rights
Professor C. Raj Kumar is spearheading the initiative to establish India’s first global law school known as the Jindal Global Law School as a part of the proposed O.P. Jindal Global University to be located outside New Delhi (Sonipat, Haryana) and less than an hour from the Supreme Court of India in the heart of New Delhi.
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| 1. How are civil rights similar to human rights? How are they different? |
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| 2. What happens when a government attempts to legally define and regulate human rights and civil rights? |
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Laurence Tribe on the shifting Supreme Court
Lawrence Tribe is an American constitutional scholar and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School.
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| 3. Lawrence Tribe sees the U.S. Supreme Court as shifting in its role as an arbiter of civil rights. What exactly does he see as the current position of the Court with regard to civil rights and why does that perturb him? What does this mean for the future of civil rights? |
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| 4. To what is Tribe referring when he describes a “pendulum”? In which direction is the pendulum currently swinging? What does that mean for contemporary civil rights? |
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