Arghya Sengupta

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Stipendiary Lecturer in Administrative Law

Arghya Sengupta is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College. He is also an Administrative Law Tutor at Worcester and Somerville Colleges. He obtained his BA LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India before coming to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he studied for the BCL, MPhil and DPhil.



Publications

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SELECT PUBLICATIONS

  • "Judicial Accountability: A Taxonomy" Public Law (Spring 2014- Forthcoming)

  • “Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights: Lessons from the Use of Continuing Mandamus by the Supreme Court of India”, in Courts and New Governance (Hart Publishing , fortchoming-2013) [co-authored with Sanhita Ambast]

  • “A Dangerous Recourse? A Critical Relook at Section 17 of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010” 3(4) International Journal of Nuclear Law 292 (2012)

  • “Judicial Independence and the Appointment of Judges to the Higher Judiciary in India: A Conceptual Enquiry” 5 Indian Journal of Constitutional Law 99 (2011).

  • The Supreme Court of India” in Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Niraja Gopal Jayal eds., The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010)[co-authored with Lavanya Rajamani]

  •  “Service Tax on Renting of Immoveable Property in India: Constitutional Implications” 12 Chartered Accountants Today 18(2007).

  • “Parallel Imports in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Must India be More Liberal?” 12 Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 400(2007).  

OPINION EDITORIALS

  • "It's not Just a Question of Life and Death" Hindustan Times, March 3, 2013

  • “Lest Death Do Us Part” The Hindu, November 19, 2012

  • “Judicial Propriety in an Age of Scandal” The Hindu, May 14, 2012

  • A Case for Judicial Lockjaw” The Hindu, February 27, 2012

  • Liability Rules Leave Very Little Recourse” The Hindu, December 1, 2011

Interests

Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law

Research: Judicial independence; judicial accountability; higher judicial reform; Indian constitutional law; constitutional theory

Other details

Correspondence address:

Pembroke College
St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DW

other affiliation(s):

Worcester College

Somerville College



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