160-yr-old law on wills for modern India? Uttarakhand’s UCC has just copy-pasted it
This opinion was published in The Print on March 05, 2024.
About the Authors
Aditya was a Senior Resident Fellow in the Research Director's Office at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. He graduated from the NLSIU Bangalore in 2021 with a BA LLB (Hons). His areas of interest include constitutional law, civil procedure, and dispute resolution. He has academic publications on constitutional law, legislative drafting, and arbitration law in journals such as Statute Law Review and Arbitration International. At Vidhi, he has been providing legislative drafting assistance to various Ministries, Departments, and Authorities of the Central Government and various State Governments.
Jay is a Senior Resident Fellow in the Research Director's Office. He has worked on a number of engaged projects with the Government of India and State Governments, providing both legal research and legislative drafting support. He has worked with, among others, NITI Aayog, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. He obtained his undergraduate degree in law from the University of Cambridge in 2018.