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unusual facts about Indian law



Betty Binns Fletcher

On the bench, Fletcher wrote opinions in areas such as employment discrimination, environmental law, Indian law, water rights, export restrictions on cryptography, obscenity on the internet, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Bhanwari Devi

Due to these delays, the vaginal swab was taken more than 48 hours after the alleged rape, although Indian law requires this to be done within 24 hours.

Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act

COFEPOSA (the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act) is an Indian law passed in 1974 trying to retain foreign currency and prevent smuggling.

Vikramaditya Khanna

He was a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship for 2002–2003, and his areas of research and teaching interest include corporate and securities laws, law in India, corporate governance in emerging markets, corporate crime, corporate and managerial liability, and law and economics.


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Alyn Ware

He was a non-violence trainer for the anti-Springbok Tour protests (1981), was a member of Project Waitangi (an anti-racism education program), was active in the campaign to secure support from New Zealand for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has served as an adviser to the American Indian Law Alliance on international legal remedies for violation of treaties between States and Indigenous nations.

Donald Laverdure

Prior to joining the Michigan State University College of faculty, Laverdure was Executive Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

In the Courts of the Conqueror

In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided is a 2010 legal non-fiction book by Walter R. Echo-Hawk, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Tulsa College of Law, and of counsel with Crowe & Dunlevy.

Mineral Royalties for Citizens and Military

The Mineral Royalties for Citizens and Military (MRCM) is a proposed Indian law draft from the Right To Recall team.