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 is Lead, Vidhi Bengal. He was formerly a Senior Resident Fellow with the Research Director’s Office at Vidhi, where he advised Ministries of the Government of India in drafting legislation across various sectors such as tribunal reforms, cinematography, regulation of nuclear energy, MSMEs, and the repeal of obsolete legislation. He contributes regularly to national dailies such as the Times of India and Hindustan Times on issues of public law and policy. Aditya is also a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Wright Rogers scholar and Lucy Cavendish Law Enrichment scholar, studying universal adult franchise in India. He holds a BA LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and an LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded two Faculty Prizes for Advanced Public Law and Comparative Legal History and the Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for his contributions to Lucy Cavendish College.
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.