Judicial Reflections of Justice Bhagwati

This book covers a wide range of subjects of constitutional, legal and social importance dealt with in the judgments delivered by Justice Bhagwati during his career first as a judge of the Gujarat High Court and then as Judge and later as Chief Justice of India analyzing and examining them critically with reference to the judgements of courts of various other countries.

• A Judge is Born
• Law as an Instrument of Social Justice
• Child Welfare and Inter-country Adoptions
• India as a Nation–Evolution of the Concept
• Constitution—A Living Organism
• State Action and the Constitutional Implications 
• Freedom of Speech and Press
• Declaration of Emergency–Constitutional Implications
• Public Interest Litigation–A Strategic Instrument of Legal Aid
• Judicial Review
• Judicial Activism
• Bonded Labour–An Affront to Basic Human Values
• Human Rights in Modern Times
• Human Rights and Criminal Justice system
• Death Penalty—An Affront to Human Rights
• the Judgment that Created Fissure