Join our first ‘Date with Data’ on April 23, 2021!
Justice Hub is organising our first ‘Date with Data’ where Prof. Rangin Tripathy from NLU (Odisha), will give us a glimpse of the stories emerging from the following datasets and papers available openly for the first time on Justice Hub:
Who are our Judges? (2000-2020):How much information do judges disclose? Prof. Rangin Tripathy explores this question through analysis of a novel dataset on the kind of information made available by the judges on the official website of the Supreme Court of India. The dataset finds both lack of data as well as details when providing information. For example, at the time of publication (2020) only 13 out of 122 judges had shed light on private empanelment before appointment in the Supreme Court.
Jobs for Justice(s) (1999-2014):A novel dataset of Supreme Court decisions between 1999 and 2014 and tracks the post retirement trajectory of judges. The dataset uses indicators such as date of appointment, retirement and appointment as chief justice of the judges as well as information on their post retirement appointments by the central government. Madhav S. Aney, Shubhankar Dam, and Giovanni Ko, also found evidence of government influence on judicial decision making in the Supreme Court.
An assessment of the Collegium’s impact on the Composition of Court (2011): The paper presents a quantitative analysis of the background factors of Supreme Court Judges such as professional background, their appointments in collegium, tenure length, their intended tenure level etc. Paper authored by Prof. Rangin Tripathy and Soumendra Dhanee shows that on average a SC Judge appointed directly from the Bar spends 497 days more in the office than judges appointed from HC Bar.
Justices of the Supreme Court of India (1950-2020): This novel dataset contains 30+ unique indicators ranging from the background information, date of appointment, religion, details on appointments in high courts, areas of specialisation etc. Though this dataset, put together by Gyan Tripathi, has exhaustive information on some indicators, there are certain indicators where information is either limited or not available on the website. This dataset corroborates some missing bits of information from a book authored by George Gadbois Jr. for judges between 1950 and 1989. However, there remains a huge opportunity to fill the information gap further.
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