• Kushagr Bakshi on Constitutional Interpretation and the Transformation of Federalism

  • Nov 14 2024
  • Length: 54 mins
  • Podcast

Kushagr Bakshi on Constitutional Interpretation and the Transformation of Federalism

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    I spoke with Kushagr Bakshi is a Michigan International and Comparative Law Scholar and an SJD candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also received his LLM. He received his first law degree from NUJS in West Bengal. We discussed a chapter of his dissertation called “The Country Without a Post Office: Jammu and Kashmir and the Imaginations of Freedom Within a Federation. We talked about assymetrical federalism versus hetererarchy, constitutional values and imagination for federalism in India, and much more.

    Recorded October 24th, 2024.

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    Timestamps

    (00:00:00) - Intro

    (00:01:06) - Grand Tamasha

    (00:04:12) - Asymmetric Versus Heterarchical Federalism

    (00:19:37) - Isn’t this Asymmetric Federalism?

    (00:31:39) - Democracy in Local Governments

    (00:43:27) - Rethinking the Rajya Sabha

    (00:53:30) - Outro

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