Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer born on 15th November, 1915, in northern Kerala and educated in Annamalai and Madras Universities, practiced law and defended peasants and workers against the exploitation of the feudal lords who had full support of the colonial regime. In 1956 Mr. Iyer was elected initially to Madras Legislative Assembly and later, after reorganization of States, to the Kerala Assembly, where he was chosen as Minister in charge of Important portfolios like Home, Law, Social Welfare and Irrigation. He was appointed judge of the Kerala High Court in July 1968 and became the Member of the Law Commission of India two years later. In 1973, the Supreme Court of India beckoned him where he played an important role in an era of Judicial activism, public interest litigation, affirmative action through Courts and a wide ranging exercise of judicial review for which the Indian Judiciary is being hailed throughout the world today. Though his tenure in the Apex Court was relatively short, he managed to make a lasting impression on public mind. He is the author of numerous books and has penned innumerable articles and is a leading member of several social organizations and professional bodies. Mr. Justice Iyer is an Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a promoter of its Community Law Reform Programme. He has been honoured with several coveted awards and distinctions from various organizations around the world. He is the only Indian Judge on whom three doctoral thesis have been written by the scholars in three different Universities. He is the Honorary Patron of Universal Institute of Legal Studies, New Delhi. Justice Iyer is one of the versatile authors who has written on each and every aspect of law and beyond, maintaining lucidity and depicting ocean deep knowledge of the subject. His dynamic and enlightened idea on law and contemporary jurisprudence is a pathmaking source for the present and future judicial system. Out of multifarious activities of his life he always works out the time in writing for law and technosocio matters that becomes the flow of inspiration for the lawyers, judges and the common people, not only in our own land but also in other parts of the world.

This book is a collection of essays on law, policy, economics and governance, and reminiscences written by people who knew and worked with Palkhivala. Moreover, this edition is a standalone volume and the respective articles have been exclusively written for this edition only. Essays by various scholars and reminiscences by different contributors who knew Palkhivala articles by Palkhivala himself pictures of Palkhivala at different occasions a collection of various letters and documents sent and received by Nani a Palkhivala.

An anthology of essays divided into three broad heads of business and corporate governance, law and legislative affairs and trade and policy. The subjects covered here are varied and include everything from: Gay Rights to Insider Trading, Legitimizing Lobbying to Regulating Gaming, Insider trading to Holidays in the Judiciary, Juvenile Justice to Abortion Laws, Sedition to Competition Regulations, Multi-brand Retail to Political Advertising, Media Trials to Abortion rights.

"Legal Balm", is a trendsetter for infusing accountability through a new tool of proposed legislation - 'Constitutional Tort'. Pruning of existing laws and non-implementation of various laws has been dealt with head-on by the author, who has sufficient credentials in law and in public service through free legal aid. The original and juristic perceptions by the writer have been dealt with in real life-legal situations by way of application of the systemic correctional and healing balm - "The Legal Balm". The various topics have been dealt with in a concise manner with precision and clarity. The language has been crafted with the dexterity of a master craftsman. The book is a gift not only to Modern India, but also to posterity. The author draws inspiration from Benjamin Franklin's sentiments, thus: 'If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth writing'.

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The system of governance in India is based on rule of law. All public and corporate functions have to be undertaken within the framework of law. The managers and engineers, therefore, are expected to follow their professions and embark on their career trajectory by due adherence to the laws of the land. Knowledge of basic legal concepts and doctrines hence become essential at the stage of professional training, internship and thereafter. An attempt has been made in this book to articulate relevant constitutional scheme and statutory provisions as applicable to different spheres of production, marketing, finance and human resources development. A simple and clear exposition would help easy assimilation of legal background now mandatory for the curriculum of future engineers and management executives.

Most subject-specific books of law in India focus on the relevant statutes and list, explain and detail the statutory enactments. In contrast, the focus of this book is on the underlying legal principles, whether or not they have been codified in a statute book or elsewhere. The objective of this book is to provide to the reader an explanation of the most important legal principles in key areas of the field, followed by an illustration of how the principle has been adopted or propounded in judicial pronouncements. It follows in the common law tradition where the legal principle comes first and the statute book later. It is neither possible nor useful to know about or understand every enactment in every statute. However, a well-rounded lawyer and an adept student must be familiar with certain key principles in the most important areas of law. This book provides those principles.

The objective for this book is to distil the most important and commonly used maxims, give the meaning or explanation of each maxim and show how it has been employed in a judgment or argument propounded in court. Most books on legal maxims are large, overwhelming and encyclopaedic, in which the average reader cannot read everything, and does not know what to focus on. This book contains a "curated" collection of the maxims that are actually employed and continue to be used in the study and practice of the law.

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History is testimony that it does many times changes its course because of unusual forces. There are four such forces, described many times as forces of globalisation, that are reshaping the world of today. The first is the shifting of economic centres of gravity from Europe and America to Asia. The second is the accelerated impact of technological revolution. The third force is demographics and the last one is the breathtaking interconnectivity between trade, movement of capital, people and information. These four forces have accelerated and fed each other bringing profound changes in every walk of life of nations, societies and individuals be it economic, political, social or cultural. Societies unable to adapt to these dramatic changes are likely to collapse. No doubt these vast changes have brought alongwith them number of paradoxes and conundrums. Capturing these profound changes and the turn course of history has taken due to these forces. Globalisation, democratisation and Distributive Justice makes an attempt to find ways for striking a proper balance between emerging paradoxes and contradictions while deepening further the faith of the polity and its institutions in democracy and distributive justice.