Аннотация:The Law Commission of India has often been criticized for being an ineffective body with limited powers for driving legislative change. Less than fifty percent of the Commission’s recommendations have been implemented and there is no mechanism to ensure the consideration of these recommendations. The Commission is hardly able to function as the reformative body that it was intended to be. This limited impact can be attributed to a variety of institutional and structural shortfalls facing both the Commission itself and the framework within which it operates. This paper inquires into the functioning of Law Commissions from four countries. These countries have been selected based on their performance on global indices assessing regulatory quality and their circumstantial similarity with India. Through a comparative analysis of the performance of these Law Commissions, using various good governance metrics, the paper presents a variety of lessons to improve the functioning of the Law Commission of India.
