NALSAR marks UPSC Centenary through Collaborative Book on 100 Landmark Judgments that shaped Public Service Commissions

The Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi released a commemorative book, 100 Landmark Judgements- Shaping the Policies of UPSC and Public Service Commissions in India, a collaborative effort between the Union Public Service Commission and the NALSAR University of Law, as part of the UPSC’s centenary celebrations at on 1 October, 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. 

The law of public employment sits at the intersection of constitutional and administrative law. It draws upon the guarantees of equality in Articles 14, 16 and the framework of Part XIV of the Constitution. The 100 judgements featured in the book tell the larger constitutional story of how the values of equality, fairness and freedom from arbitrariness are translated from constitutional text into administrative practice. These cases were received from the Union Public Service Commission and State Public Service Commissions.

The book has been brought together by a dedicated research team at NALSAR which worked in coordination with designated officers of the UPSC. It is divided into thematic chapters and presented through disciplined case notes which set out the facts, the issues, the decision and the ratio of each case, together with relevant provisions and instructive passages from the judgments.

The book, therefore, looks beyond service law and demonstrates constitutional governance in its most everyday and most consequential form. This makes it equally serviceable as a casebook for the classroom, a desk reference for the practitioner and a research foundation for the scholar. 

Professor Srikishna Deva Rao, Vice-Chancellor of the NALSAR University of Law, says in the book’s introduction: 

“For NALSAR University of Law, this collaboration with the Union Public Service Commission reflects our conviction that a university discharges its fullest purpose when rigorous scholarship is placed at the service of public institutions.”

Professor Rao was also a panelist during a discussion on Significance of Public Service Commissions as a Constitutional Body as part of the centenary celebrations.