O. P.

Jindal Global University

Sonipat Narela Road, Near Jagdishpur Village, Sonipat
Haryana-131001, NCR of Delhi, India
Tel: +91-130-3057800, 3057801, 3057802
Fax: +91-130-3057888
Email: info@jgu.edu.in; registrar@jgu.edu.in
Website: www.jgu.edu.in
 The international educational background and experience our
faculty members have brought to Jindal Global Law School augurs
Vice Chancellor’s Message
well for our inter-disciplinary approach towards global legal
Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) opened its doors to over 100 education. Our faculty members have educational qualifications
students to the three year LL.B. and five year B.A. LL.B. programmes in September 2009. The vision of
JGLS is to promote excellence in teaching and research and provide global legal education through its
from the following universities and law schools around the world:
curriculum, courses, programmes, research and interaction and international faculty. Our commitment
to promoting excellence in teaching and research is being fulfilled through our faculty members. We
United States of America Canada
have attracted outstanding academics and practitioners from different parts of the world to teach at
JGLS.
• Harvard Law School • University of Toronto
• Yale Law School • Queen’s University
JGLS is committed to encouraging research among its faculty members with a view to contributing
to the understanding of legal and policy issues that confront our society. Our faculty members have • Stanford Law School • Dalhousie University
exceptional qualifications from universities and law schools in India and abroad. We hope to draw • Columbia Law School
upon their expertise and experience to impart legal education at the highest academic standards. The
• New York University School of Law Europe
passionate commitment of our faculty members to contribute to research through publications is the
• University of Chicago • University of Hamburg, Germany
unique characteristic of Jindal Global Law School. As we move forward in our institution building
process, research and scholarship will have a fair amount of focus for the development of the University. • University of Virginia School of Law • University of Barcelona, Spain

Professor C. Raj Kumar • Northeastern University School of Law

Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University & • Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse
Dean, Jindal Global Law School University
• Vanderbilt University
• University of North Carolina
• Washington University
India
• University of Delhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru University
• University of Madras
• Indian Law Institute

Pro Vice Chancellor’s Message • Denison University • National Law School of India University,
Bangalore
We pride in the fact that we have appointed excellent faculty from all over the world. Every faculty United Kingdom • University of Bangalore
member was chosen for his or her special expertise to fill in the teaching and research requirements • Banaras Hindu University
• University of Oxford
of the University. They are endowed with critical and analytical abilities to develop their teaching and
• University of Cambridge • University of Lucknow
research skills and contribute immensely to the development of research and publications. All faculty
members are associated with one research centre or the other. • London School of Economics and Political • Mahatma Gandhi University, Kochi
Science • ILS College, Pune
Although our faculty members come from different parts of the world, they have a shared mission and
a unique synergy between them. They are all professionals and take their responsibilities seriously and • University of London • The West Bengal National University of
discharge their duties with honesty, integrity and assiduity. Being from different social and cultural • University of Nottingham Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
backgrounds, the faculty members bring with them the best of those cultures and experiences, which • National Law Institute University, Bhopal
• University of East Anglia
would be conducive to developing this institution into a veritable global University.

Professor D.K. Srivastava

Australia
Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), O.P. Jindal Global University &
Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School • Monash University

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 The international educational background and experience our
faculty members have brought to Jindal Global Law School augurs
Vice Chancellor’s Message
well for our inter-disciplinary approach towards global legal
Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) opened its doors to over 100 education. Our faculty members have educational qualifications
students to the three year LL.B. and five year B.A. LL.B. programmes in September 2009. The vision of
JGLS is to promote excellence in teaching and research and provide global legal education through its
from the following universities and law schools around the world:
curriculum, courses, programmes, research and interaction and international faculty. Our commitment
to promoting excellence in teaching and research is being fulfilled through our faculty members. We
United States of America Canada
have attracted outstanding academics and practitioners from different parts of the world to teach at
JGLS.
• Harvard Law School • University of Toronto
• Yale Law School • Queen’s University
JGLS is committed to encouraging research among its faculty members with a view to contributing
to the understanding of legal and policy issues that confront our society. Our faculty members have • Stanford Law School • Dalhousie University
exceptional qualifications from universities and law schools in India and abroad. We hope to draw • Columbia Law School
upon their expertise and experience to impart legal education at the highest academic standards. The
• New York University School of Law Europe
passionate commitment of our faculty members to contribute to research through publications is the
• University of Chicago • University of Hamburg, Germany
unique characteristic of Jindal Global Law School. As we move forward in our institution building
process, research and scholarship will have a fair amount of focus for the development of the University. • University of Virginia School of Law • University of Barcelona, Spain

Professor C. Raj Kumar • Northeastern University School of Law

Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University & • Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse
Dean, Jindal Global Law School University
• Vanderbilt University
• University of North Carolina
• Washington University
India
• University of Delhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru University
• University of Madras
• Indian Law Institute

Pro Vice Chancellor’s Message • Denison University • National Law School of India University,
Bangalore
We pride in the fact that we have appointed excellent faculty from all over the world. Every faculty United Kingdom • University of Bangalore
member was chosen for his or her special expertise to fill in the teaching and research requirements • Banaras Hindu University
• University of Oxford
of the University. They are endowed with critical and analytical abilities to develop their teaching and
• University of Cambridge • University of Lucknow
research skills and contribute immensely to the development of research and publications. All faculty
members are associated with one research centre or the other. • London School of Economics and Political • Mahatma Gandhi University, Kochi
Science • ILS College, Pune
Although our faculty members come from different parts of the world, they have a shared mission and
a unique synergy between them. They are all professionals and take their responsibilities seriously and • University of London • The West Bengal National University of
discharge their duties with honesty, integrity and assiduity. Being from different social and cultural • University of Nottingham Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
backgrounds, the faculty members bring with them the best of those cultures and experiences, which • National Law Institute University, Bhopal
• University of East Anglia
would be conducive to developing this institution into a veritable global University.

Professor D.K. Srivastava

Australia
Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), O.P. Jindal Global University &
Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School • Monash University

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 C. Raj Kumar
LL.B. (Delhi), B.C.L. (Oxford), LL.M. (Harvard)
Professor and Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University &
Dean, Jindal Global Law School
Professor C. Raj Kumar spearheaded the initiative to establish O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and India’s first
global law school, the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) in the National Capital Region of Delhi (Sonipat, Haryana). He
is an Honorary Consultant to the National Human Rights Commission in India and had a faculty appointment at City
University of Hong Kong, where he taught for several years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK,
where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.); a Landon Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School, USA, where he
obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) and was a James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar at Harvard University. He also
obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) from the
Loyola College of the University of Madras, India.
Professor Kumar’s areas of specialisation include human rights and development, terrorism and national security,
corruption and governance, law and disaster management, comparative constitutional law and legal education. He has
one hundred publications to his credit. His works have been published widely in journals and law reviews in Australia,
Hong Kong, India, Japan and USA. These include the American University International Law Review, Asia Pacific
Law Review, Australian Journal of Asian Law, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Corporate Governance International,
Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, Hong Kong Lawyer, Human Rights Quarterly, Indian Journal of
Criminology, Indian Journal of Public Administration, ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, Journal of
the International Peace Research Institute, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Michigan
State Journal of International Law, New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Proceedings of the
American Society of International Law, San Diego International Law Journal, Tulane Journal of International and
Comparative Law, and Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law. Professor Kumar’s three co-edited books
are HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT: LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE (2006) published by LexisNexis,
Butterworths; TSUNAMI AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT: LAW AND GOVERNANCE (2006) published by Sweet &
Maxwell Thomson; and HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL EMPOWERMENT (2007) published by
the Oxford University Press (OUP). He has contributed shorter articles in newspapers and magazines published from Hong
Kong, India and the UK, which include, South China Morning Post, The Standard, Frontline, The Hindu, The Pioneer and
Open Democracy. He has been interviewed on issues relating to human rights and governance by the media in Hong Kong
and Japan, including radio and television, which include, Star News & ATV (both TV), and RTHK & NHK (both Radio).
Professor Kumar has held consultancy assignments in the field of human rights and governance. He has been a Consultant
to the United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and the International
Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva. He has advised the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery
or Corruption (CIABOC) in Sri Lanka and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in India on issues relating to
corruption and good governance. Professor Kumar is an Attorney at Law and is admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi, India
and the Bar of the State of New York, USA.
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D.K. Srivastava
M.A., LL.B., LL.M. (Banaras), Ph.D. (Monash)
Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), O.P. Jindal Global University &
Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School
Professor D.K. Srivastava was a proactive member of the group, which initiated the establishment of O.P. Jindal Global
University. He was an advisor to the O.P. Jindal Global University, an Honorary Legal Advisor to the Ombudsman of Hong
Kong and Hong Kong Convention Ambassador. Professor Srivastava has taught for nearly forty years in three jurisdictions,
Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Hong Kong. He was Head of Law Department in the University of PNG and City
University of Hong Kong as well as Associate Head of Law and Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, City University of Hong
Kong. He has also held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, University of Victoria, in Australia
and the University of South Pacific, Suva in Fiji, Guru Gobind Singh University, New Delhi and NALSAR University,
Hyderabad in India.
Professor Srivastava obtained a first class Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Banaras Hindu
University. He topped at both LL.B. and LL.M. exams. He obtained his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia. He has
specialized in the subject areas of torts, contracts, banking law, business and commercial law, Pacific Islands legal system
and customary law. He has published over one hundred books, book chapters, articles and monographs. The nineteen
books that he has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited have been published in the United States, Australia, PNG,
Hong Kong and India. In several of these jurisdictions they have been standard texts for teaching law and non-law students
and some of the books have been best sellers. Professor Srivastava’s books have been published by world’s leading law
publishers including Reuter Thomson: Sweet & Maxwell, LexisNexis Butterworths, Law Book Company, University of
Hawaii Press, Beijing University Press and University of PNG Press. His articles and academic works have been published
in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, PNG, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia
and India. Some of the journals in which his works have been published include Monash Law Review, International and
Comparative Law Quarterly, Australian Journal of Corporate Law, Asia Pacific Law Review, Yearbook of Law and
Legal Practice in East Asia, Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law, Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law,
Canberra Law Review, Canterbury Law Review, Asian Business Law Review, Oregan Review of International Law and
Journal of the Indian Law Institute.
Professor Srivastava was the Chief Co-editor of the Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law, Case Notes Editor of Asia
Pacific Law Review and English Language Editor, Digest of Hong Kong Contract Law. He has contributed shorter articles
and comments in newspapers, magazines and journals. He has also given radio and television talks and chaired and
organized numerous conferences and presented a number of papers at international conferences. Professor Srivastava
has closely worked with the Law Society of Hong Kong and was involved in drafting of Foreign Lawyers Qualifications
Examination Ordinance.
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 C. Raj Kumar
LL.B. (Delhi), B.C.L. (Oxford), LL.M. (Harvard)
Professor and Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University &
Dean, Jindal Global Law School
Professor C. Raj Kumar spearheaded the initiative to establish O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and India’s first
global law school, the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) in the National Capital Region of Delhi (Sonipat, Haryana). He
is an Honorary Consultant to the National Human Rights Commission in India and had a faculty appointment at City
University of Hong Kong, where he taught for several years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK,
where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.); a Landon Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School, USA, where he
obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) and was a James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar at Harvard University. He also
obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) from the
Loyola College of the University of Madras, India.
Professor Kumar’s areas of specialisation include human rights and development, terrorism and national security,
corruption and governance, law and disaster management, comparative constitutional law and legal education. He has
one hundred publications to his credit. His works have been published widely in journals and law reviews in Australia,
Hong Kong, India, Japan and USA. These include the American University International Law Review, Asia Pacific
Law Review, Australian Journal of Asian Law, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Corporate Governance International,
Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, Hong Kong Lawyer, Human Rights Quarterly, Indian Journal of
Criminology, Indian Journal of Public Administration, ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, Journal of
the International Peace Research Institute, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Michigan
State Journal of International Law, New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Proceedings of the
American Society of International Law, San Diego International Law Journal, Tulane Journal of International and
Comparative Law, and Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law. Professor Kumar’s three co-edited books
are HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT: LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE (2006) published by LexisNexis,
Butterworths; TSUNAMI AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT: LAW AND GOVERNANCE (2006) published by Sweet &
Maxwell Thomson; and HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL EMPOWERMENT (2007) published by
the Oxford University Press (OUP). He has contributed shorter articles in newspapers and magazines published from Hong
Kong, India and the UK, which include, South China Morning Post, The Standard, Frontline, The Hindu, The Pioneer and
Open Democracy. He has been interviewed on issues relating to human rights and governance by the media in Hong Kong
and Japan, including radio and television, which include, Star News & ATV (both TV), and RTHK & NHK (both Radio).
Professor Kumar has held consultancy assignments in the field of human rights and governance. He has been a Consultant
to the United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and the International
Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva. He has advised the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery
or Corruption (CIABOC) in Sri Lanka and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in India on issues relating to
corruption and good governance. Professor Kumar is an Attorney at Law and is admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi, India
and the Bar of the State of New York, USA.
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D.K. Srivastava
M.A., LL.B., LL.M. (Banaras), Ph.D. (Monash)
Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), O.P. Jindal Global University &
Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School
Professor D.K. Srivastava was a proactive member of the group, which initiated the establishment of O.P. Jindal Global
University. He was an advisor to the O.P. Jindal Global University, an Honorary Legal Advisor to the Ombudsman of Hong
Kong and Hong Kong Convention Ambassador. Professor Srivastava has taught for nearly forty years in three jurisdictions,
Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Hong Kong. He was Head of Law Department in the University of PNG and City
University of Hong Kong as well as Associate Head of Law and Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, City University of Hong
Kong. He has also held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, University of Victoria, in Australia
and the University of South Pacific, Suva in Fiji, Guru Gobind Singh University, New Delhi and NALSAR University,
Hyderabad in India.
Professor Srivastava obtained a first class Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Banaras Hindu
University. He topped at both LL.B. and LL.M. exams. He obtained his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia. He has
specialized in the subject areas of torts, contracts, banking law, business and commercial law, Pacific Islands legal system
and customary law. He has published over one hundred books, book chapters, articles and monographs. The nineteen
books that he has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited have been published in the United States, Australia, PNG,
Hong Kong and India. In several of these jurisdictions they have been standard texts for teaching law and non-law students
and some of the books have been best sellers. Professor Srivastava’s books have been published by world’s leading law
publishers including Reuter Thomson: Sweet & Maxwell, LexisNexis Butterworths, Law Book Company, University of
Hawaii Press, Beijing University Press and University of PNG Press. His articles and academic works have been published
in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, PNG, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia
and India. Some of the journals in which his works have been published include Monash Law Review, International and
Comparative Law Quarterly, Australian Journal of Corporate Law, Asia Pacific Law Review, Yearbook of Law and
Legal Practice in East Asia, Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law, Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law,
Canberra Law Review, Canterbury Law Review, Asian Business Law Review, Oregan Review of International Law and
Journal of the Indian Law Institute.
Professor Srivastava was the Chief Co-editor of the Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law, Case Notes Editor of Asia
Pacific Law Review and English Language Editor, Digest of Hong Kong Contract Law. He has contributed shorter articles
and comments in newspapers, magazines and journals. He has also given radio and television talks and chaired and
organized numerous conferences and presented a number of papers at international conferences. Professor Srivastava
has closely worked with the Law Society of Hong Kong and was involved in drafting of Foreign Lawyers Qualifications
Examination Ordinance.
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 Charu Sharma
B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M. (Delhi University), Ph.D. Candidate (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Associate Professor & Assistant Dean (Global Programmes)
Executive Director, Centre for Environment and Climate Change
Prof. Sharma is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Global Programmes) at JGLS. She is also the Executive Director
of the Centre for Environment and Climate Change (EC3). Before joining JGU, she was teaching at City University of Hong
Kong and was Associate Director, Research Center for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) and Associate Programme
Leader, LL.M. Programme. Prof. Sharma has practised law in the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India.
She also worked as Deputy Legal Officer at the Center for Environmental Law, World Wide Fund (CEL-WWF) for Nature.
Prof. Sharma has been the International Mooting and Skills Competition Coordinator and Coach for the Hong Kong team
for Louis M. Brown Client Counselling Competition, and William C. Vis International Arbitration Moot (Vienna). She
has been a member, of the Strategic Planning Sub-Group on Globalization (SPCG), and Seminar Coordinator, Eminent
Lecture Speakers Series at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Sharma has also been a member of
the Hong Kong Environmental Law Association and one of the editors of the Hong Kong Environmental Law Newsletter.
Prof. Sharma obtained her B.Sc., LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Delhi. In LL.M. she obtained a first class and first
position in her class. She obtained a Diploma in Environmental Law from CEL-WWF. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D.
from the Department of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her areas of specialization include environmental
law, tort law, business and commercial law, sexual harassment and human rights. Prof. Sharma’s publications have
appeared in leading international law journals including Australian Journal of Corporate Law in Australia, Animal Law
Review, Vermont Journal of Environmental law in USA, Asian Business law Review in Singapore, Journal of Chinese
and Comparative law in Hong Kong. She has co-authored several books, book chapters and articles. Her books and book
chapters have been published from Hong Kong and India.
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Padmanabha Ramanujam
B.A.L., LL.B., M.B.L. (Bangalore), LL.M. (Norwich), Ph.D. Candidate (Asia Link Fellow)
Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean (Academic Programmes)
Assistant Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies
Prof. Ramanujam is Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean (Academic Programmes) at JGLS. Prof. Ramanujam as a
member of the JGU and JGLS Academic Planning Committee (APC) was involved in the establishment of O. P. Jindal
Global University. Prof. Ramanujam is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies, a
research centre which is established to lead and excel in the area of patents, trademarks, design protection and copyright
law.
Prof. Ramanujam is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the Asia Link Fellowship Programme sponsored by the European
Union at Hamburg University Institute of Law and Economics, Germany and the National Law School of India University,
Bangalore. Prof. Ramanujam holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Intellectual Property Rights from the University
of East Anglia (UEA), UK with a distinction. He was awarded the University of East Anglia International Scholarship,
Norwich Law School Scholarship and the University of East Anglia Best International Applicant Award.
Prof. Ramanujam’s other qualifications include a Master of Business Laws (M.B.L.) from the National Law School of India
University, Bangalore and Bachelor of Law (B.A.L., LL.B.) from University Law College, Bangalore University.
Prof. Ramanujam specializes in law and economics, intellectual property law, competition law and the law of contract.
Prof. Ramanujam has published several empirical and theoretical papers on issues relating to intellectual property rights,
open source, culture studies and innovation with a forthcoming Chapter, Indian Patent Regime for the Pharmaceutical
Sector: Law and Economics Analysis of the Novartis Case, in an edited volume by the Oxford University Press (December
2009).
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 Charu Sharma
B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M. (Delhi University), Ph.D. Candidate (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Associate Professor & Assistant Dean (Global Programmes)
Executive Director, Centre for Environment and Climate Change
Prof. Sharma is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Global Programmes) at JGLS. She is also the Executive Director
of the Centre for Environment and Climate Change (EC3). Before joining JGU, she was teaching at City University of Hong
Kong and was Associate Director, Research Center for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) and Associate Programme
Leader, LL.M. Programme. Prof. Sharma has practised law in the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India.
She also worked as Deputy Legal Officer at the Center for Environmental Law, World Wide Fund (CEL-WWF) for Nature.
Prof. Sharma has been the International Mooting and Skills Competition Coordinator and Coach for the Hong Kong team
for Louis M. Brown Client Counselling Competition, and William C. Vis International Arbitration Moot (Vienna). She
has been a member, of the Strategic Planning Sub-Group on Globalization (SPCG), and Seminar Coordinator, Eminent
Lecture Speakers Series at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Sharma has also been a member of
the Hong Kong Environmental Law Association and one of the editors of the Hong Kong Environmental Law Newsletter.
Prof. Sharma obtained her B.Sc., LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Delhi. In LL.M. she obtained a first class and first
position in her class. She obtained a Diploma in Environmental Law from CEL-WWF. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D.
from the Department of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her areas of specialization include environmental
law, tort law, business and commercial law, sexual harassment and human rights. Prof. Sharma’s publications have
appeared in leading international law journals including Australian Journal of Corporate Law in Australia, Animal Law
Review, Vermont Journal of Environmental law in USA, Asian Business law Review in Singapore, Journal of Chinese
and Comparative law in Hong Kong. She has co-authored several books, book chapters and articles. Her books and book
chapters have been published from Hong Kong and India.
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Padmanabha Ramanujam
B.A.L., LL.B., M.B.L. (Bangalore), LL.M. (Norwich), Ph.D. Candidate (Asia Link Fellow)
Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean (Academic Programmes)
Assistant Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies
Prof. Ramanujam is Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean (Academic Programmes) at JGLS. Prof. Ramanujam as a
member of the JGU and JGLS Academic Planning Committee (APC) was involved in the establishment of O. P. Jindal
Global University. Prof. Ramanujam is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies, a
research centre which is established to lead and excel in the area of patents, trademarks, design protection and copyright
law.
Prof. Ramanujam is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the Asia Link Fellowship Programme sponsored by the European
Union at Hamburg University Institute of Law and Economics, Germany and the National Law School of India University,
Bangalore. Prof. Ramanujam holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Intellectual Property Rights from the University
of East Anglia (UEA), UK with a distinction. He was awarded the University of East Anglia International Scholarship,
Norwich Law School Scholarship and the University of East Anglia Best International Applicant Award.
Prof. Ramanujam’s other qualifications include a Master of Business Laws (M.B.L.) from the National Law School of India
University, Bangalore and Bachelor of Law (B.A.L., LL.B.) from University Law College, Bangalore University.
Prof. Ramanujam specializes in law and economics, intellectual property law, competition law and the law of contract.
Prof. Ramanujam has published several empirical and theoretical papers on issues relating to intellectual property rights,
open source, culture studies and innovation with a forthcoming Chapter, Indian Patent Regime for the Pharmaceutical
Sector: Law and Economics Analysis of the Novartis Case, in an edited volume by the Oxford University Press (December
2009).
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 Jonathan A. Burton-MacLeod
A.B. (Harvard), J.D. (Queen’s), LL.M. (Harvard)
Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean (Research)
Assistant Director, Centre for Global Governance and Policy
Prof. Burton-MacLeod is Assistant Dean for Research at JGLS. Prof. Burton-MacLeod’s institutional responsibilities
include coordination, development, and marketing of JGLS’ ten Research Centres, university wide funding, and faculty
hiring. Professor Burton-MacLeod is also affiliated with the Centre for Global Governance and Policy, an institute that
considers international relations from a Global South perspective. Professor Burton-MacLeod held previous positions
at the Australian National University, where he lectured in Comparative Constitutional Theory and Tort Law, and the
University of New South Wales, Australia.
Prof. Burton-MacLeod completed a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University (Class of 2001), a J.D. from Queen’s
University, Canada, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard. Prior to entering law, he worked at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases.
Professor Burton-MacLeod specializes in the confluence of Constitutional Law and politics. He is particularly interested
in how social movements react to—and influence—constitutional law. Professor Burton-MacLeod has published in the
area of IP rights and essential medicines, with a forthcoming Chapter in an edited volume by the Cambridge University
Press, Incentives for Global Health: Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines (2010). His current writing includes
an examination of permissible viewpoint discrimination in public forums under the First Amendment, available on SSRN
(http://ssrn.com/abstract=1504410). Prof. Burton-MacLeod has published widely in the media, and was a U.S. Political
Analyst for the Canberra Times, Australia (2008). His published media pieces are available on his political blog: www.
getrealpolitiks.wordpress.com.
Prof. Burton-MacLeod is Co-Editor in Chief of Volume 2 of the Jindal Global Law Review. He is advisor to the Centre for
Law & Policy, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
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Sreeram Sundar Chaulia
B.A. Hons. (Delhi), B.A. (Oxford), M.Sc. (LSE), M.A. & Ph.D. (Syracuse)
Associate Professor
Executive Director, Centre for Global Governance and Policy
Prof. Sreeram Chaulia is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Global Governance and Policy. He
holds a Doctorate (Ph.D.) and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science and International Relations from the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA. He holds a Master of Science (MSc.) degree in History
of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was a Radhakrishnan British
Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Modern History. He also
has a Bachelor of Arts Honours (B.A. Hons.) from St.Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India.
Prof. Chaulia’s areas of specialisation include diplomacy, foreign policy, comparative politics, international political
economy, international organisations, armed conflict, humanitarian practices, and contemporary world history. He has
over three hundred publications to his credit and has published widely in journals in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada
and India, some of which are in the Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, International
Politics, World Affairs, International Journal of Peace Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Economic
and Political Weekly and Contemporary South Asia Journal. Prof. Chaulia is Contributing Editor to the book PEOPLE
WHO INFLUENCED THE WORLD OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS (2005), published by Murray Books, Adelaide. He is the
author of the forthcoming book POWER, IDEAS AND THE HUMANITARIAN ENTERPRISE (2010), to be published by
Cambria Press, Amherst, New York, and a contributor of two chapters to the forthcoming book HANDBOOK OF INDIA’S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (2011), to be published by Routledge Press, London.
Prof. Chaulia is a long time op-ed columnist on international current affairs for the Washington D.C.-based The Globalist,
Hong Kong-based Asia Times and the New Delhi-based Financial Express. For over two years, he wrote a monthly column
called ‘Global Scan’ for the Melbourne-based Bharat Times and a bi-monthly column called ‘Foreign Affairs’ for the Dubai-
based news magazine, International Indian. His op-eds have also appeared in leading newspapers of Asia, including The
Straits Times, Japan Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Statesman, and
Indian Express. Prof. Chaulia has been interviewed on issues relating to contemporary armed conflicts and world politics
by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is a frequent contributor to the Singapore-based syndicated columnist
service, Opinion Asia, and has been cited in the world media for his analytical articles on pressing current events.
Prof. Chaulia has worked as an international civilian peacekeeper for the Brussells-based NGO, Nonviolent Peaceforce, in
the war zones of eastern Sri Lanka and southern Philippines for over three years. He is a Contributing Editor serving on
the Board of the Kashmir News Network (KNN), a rights advocacy organisation for minority victims of ethnic cleansing
in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. He is an advocate for freedom movements in Burma and Tibet and has written
extensively about the problems of repression and human suffering under authoritarian regimes.
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 Jonathan A. Burton-MacLeod
A.B. (Harvard), J.D. (Queen’s), LL.M. (Harvard)
Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean (Research)
Assistant Director, Centre for Global Governance and Policy
Prof. Burton-MacLeod is Assistant Dean for Research at JGLS. Prof. Burton-MacLeod’s institutional responsibilities
include coordination, development, and marketing of JGLS’ ten Research Centres, university wide funding, and faculty
hiring. Professor Burton-MacLeod is also affiliated with the Centre for Global Governance and Policy, an institute that
considers international relations from a Global South perspective. Professor Burton-MacLeod held previous positions
at the Australian National University, where he lectured in Comparative Constitutional Theory and Tort Law, and the
University of New South Wales, Australia.
Prof. Burton-MacLeod completed a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University (Class of 2001), a J.D. from Queen’s
University, Canada, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard. Prior to entering law, he worked at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases.
Professor Burton-MacLeod specializes in the confluence of Constitutional Law and politics. He is particularly interested
in how social movements react to—and influence—constitutional law. Professor Burton-MacLeod has published in the
area of IP rights and essential medicines, with a forthcoming Chapter in an edited volume by the Cambridge University
Press, Incentives for Global Health: Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines (2010). His current writing includes
an examination of permissible viewpoint discrimination in public forums under the First Amendment, available on SSRN
(http://ssrn.com/abstract=1504410). Prof. Burton-MacLeod has published widely in the media, and was a U.S. Political
Analyst for the Canberra Times, Australia (2008). His published media pieces are available on his political blog: www.
getrealpolitiks.wordpress.com.
Prof. Burton-MacLeod is Co-Editor in Chief of Volume 2 of the Jindal Global Law Review. He is advisor to the Centre for
Law & Policy, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
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Sreeram Sundar Chaulia
B.A. Hons. (Delhi), B.A. (Oxford), M.Sc. (LSE), M.A. & Ph.D. (Syracuse)
Associate Professor
Executive Director, Centre for Global Governance and Policy
Prof. Sreeram Chaulia is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Global Governance and Policy. He
holds a Doctorate (Ph.D.) and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science and International Relations from the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA. He holds a Master of Science (MSc.) degree in History
of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was a Radhakrishnan British
Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Modern History. He also
has a Bachelor of Arts Honours (B.A. Hons.) from St.Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India.
Prof. Chaulia’s areas of specialisation include diplomacy, foreign policy, comparative politics, international political
economy, international organisations, armed conflict, humanitarian practices, and contemporary world history. He has
over three hundred publications to his credit and has published widely in journals in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada
and India, some of which are in the Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, International
Politics, World Affairs, International Journal of Peace Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Economic
and Political Weekly and Contemporary South Asia Journal. Prof. Chaulia is Contributing Editor to the book PEOPLE
WHO INFLUENCED THE WORLD OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS (2005), published by Murray Books, Adelaide. He is the
author of the forthcoming book POWER, IDEAS AND THE HUMANITARIAN ENTERPRISE (2010), to be published by
Cambria Press, Amherst, New York, and a contributor of two chapters to the forthcoming book HANDBOOK OF INDIA’S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (2011), to be published by Routledge Press, London.
Prof. Chaulia is a long time op-ed columnist on international current affairs for the Washington D.C.-based The Globalist,
Hong Kong-based Asia Times and the New Delhi-based Financial Express. For over two years, he wrote a monthly column
called ‘Global Scan’ for the Melbourne-based Bharat Times and a bi-monthly column called ‘Foreign Affairs’ for the Dubai-
based news magazine, International Indian. His op-eds have also appeared in leading newspapers of Asia, including The
Straits Times, Japan Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Statesman, and
Indian Express. Prof. Chaulia has been interviewed on issues relating to contemporary armed conflicts and world politics
by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is a frequent contributor to the Singapore-based syndicated columnist
service, Opinion Asia, and has been cited in the world media for his analytical articles on pressing current events.
Prof. Chaulia has worked as an international civilian peacekeeper for the Brussells-based NGO, Nonviolent Peaceforce, in
the war zones of eastern Sri Lanka and southern Philippines for over three years. He is a Contributing Editor serving on
the Board of the Kashmir News Network (KNN), a rights advocacy organisation for minority victims of ethnic cleansing
in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. He is an advocate for freedom movements in Burma and Tibet and has written
extensively about the problems of repression and human suffering under authoritarian regimes.
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 Ajay Kumar Pandey Ajay Goyal
LL.B. (Lucknow, India), LL.M. (Vanderbilt, USA), M.Phil. (JNU, India) MBA (RGU, Scotland), M.Sc. Applied Eco. and Financial Eco. (Nottingham)
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Assistant Director (Clinical Programmes) Assistant Director, Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy

Prof. Ajay Kumar Pandey is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Clinical Programmes at JGLS. Till recently, Prof. Ajay Goyal is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and
he was serving as the director of the Centre for Policy, Governance and Advocacy at the Institute of Rural Research Policy at JGLS. He is an economist with a keen interest in monetary economics and equity markets. He has completed his
and Development, Gurgaon. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Vanderbilt University Law School, Vanderbilt University, Masters Degree in Applied economics and financial economics from The University of Nottingham and a Masters Degree
Nashville TN, USA where he obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Clinical Legal Education. He also obtained Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Aberdeen Business School. He is a member of the Institute of Company
of Philosophy (M. Phil.) in International Law, from the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Secretaries of India.
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of
Prof. Goyal’s research interests include central banking institutions, impact of monetary policy on stock market valuation
Lucknow, India; and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Lucknow, India.
and commodity futures.
Prof. Pandey’s areas of interest include clinical legal education; human rights; consumer rights; international law;
constitutional law; legal aid to the poor; legal literacy; community empowerment; and transparency, accountability and
good governance. He has served as a member of the editorial board of “Kali’s Yug” (a Journal about women and law,
published by Women’s Action Research and Legal Action for Women and edited by Prof. Upendra Baxi and Ms. Rani
Jethmalani). He has edited India’s well-established monthly legal magazine, Legal News and Views, published from the
Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, and contributed 58 editorials and about a dozen articles in it. His other publications
include journal articles; book chapters; booklets; and news paper articles and press releases. He also authored a puppet
play for India’s National Literacy Mission. As a part of his endeavour for creating legal awareness, Ajay has done several
phone-in programmes with the All India Radio. Sandeep Kindo
Prof. Pandey initiated a consumer rights’ litigation even before he studied law or practised as lawyer. He was registered as B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NLS-B’lore), LL.M. (Notre Dame), J.S.M. (Stanford)
an advocate with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh and practiced at the trial courts; initiated a Public Interest Litigation Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies
in the Supreme Court of India against smuggling of cigarettes; and represented a social- security claimant before
‘Administrative Law Judge’s Court’ in Nashville, USA.
Prof. Sandeep Kindo is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Human Rights Studies at JGLS.
To assisting the poor and needy in accessing legal aid and justice has been an intrinsic feature of Prof. Pandey’s work with
different organisations. He has been associated and worked for over 15 years with non-governmental organizations on Prof. Kindo was raised in the state of Jharkhand in mid-northeast of India, and studied law at the National Law School of
issues of human rights, consumer rights, right to information, lack of good rural governance, and legal aid to the poor. He India University in Bangalore. As a Ford Foundation International Fellow with advanced degrees in law from Notre Dame
established an NGO named Antim Naagrik (the last citizen) in his home town, Etawah, UP, India, to serve the cause of the and Stanford Law School, Prof. Kindo has had diverse career experiences. While at Stanford, he also worked as a Research
underprivileged. Analyst at the Economics Department.

Besides serving on the faculty of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, he also worked in the US with
human rights and international development organizations, as well as immigration law firms. Prof. Kindo worked with
Cultural Survival, Inc. in Cambridge M.A. and the Ford Foundation’s International Fellowship Fund Inc. at the Institute
of International Education in New York City. In the past, he also worked as a human rights lawyer in Jharkhand in India
(2001-2002). His academic interests lie in the areas of human rights, international law, public law, and law and society.

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 Ajay Kumar Pandey Ajay Goyal
LL.B. (Lucknow, India), LL.M. (Vanderbilt, USA), M.Phil. (JNU, India) MBA (RGU, Scotland), M.Sc. Applied Eco. and Financial Eco. (Nottingham)
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Assistant Director (Clinical Programmes) Assistant Director, Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy

Prof. Ajay Kumar Pandey is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Clinical Programmes at JGLS. Till recently, Prof. Ajay Goyal is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and
he was serving as the director of the Centre for Policy, Governance and Advocacy at the Institute of Rural Research Policy at JGLS. He is an economist with a keen interest in monetary economics and equity markets. He has completed his
and Development, Gurgaon. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Vanderbilt University Law School, Vanderbilt University, Masters Degree in Applied economics and financial economics from The University of Nottingham and a Masters Degree
Nashville TN, USA where he obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Clinical Legal Education. He also obtained Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Aberdeen Business School. He is a member of the Institute of Company
of Philosophy (M. Phil.) in International Law, from the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Secretaries of India.
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of
Prof. Goyal’s research interests include central banking institutions, impact of monetary policy on stock market valuation
Lucknow, India; and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Lucknow, India.
and commodity futures.
Prof. Pandey’s areas of interest include clinical legal education; human rights; consumer rights; international law;
constitutional law; legal aid to the poor; legal literacy; community empowerment; and transparency, accountability and
good governance. He has served as a member of the editorial board of “Kali’s Yug” (a Journal about women and law,
published by Women’s Action Research and Legal Action for Women and edited by Prof. Upendra Baxi and Ms. Rani
Jethmalani). He has edited India’s well-established monthly legal magazine, Legal News and Views, published from the
Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, and contributed 58 editorials and about a dozen articles in it. His other publications
include journal articles; book chapters; booklets; and news paper articles and press releases. He also authored a puppet
play for India’s National Literacy Mission. As a part of his endeavour for creating legal awareness, Ajay has done several
phone-in programmes with the All India Radio. Sandeep Kindo
Prof. Pandey initiated a consumer rights’ litigation even before he studied law or practised as lawyer. He was registered as B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NLS-B’lore), LL.M. (Notre Dame), J.S.M. (Stanford)
an advocate with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh and practiced at the trial courts; initiated a Public Interest Litigation Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies
in the Supreme Court of India against smuggling of cigarettes; and represented a social- security claimant before
‘Administrative Law Judge’s Court’ in Nashville, USA.
Prof. Sandeep Kindo is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Human Rights Studies at JGLS.
To assisting the poor and needy in accessing legal aid and justice has been an intrinsic feature of Prof. Pandey’s work with
different organisations. He has been associated and worked for over 15 years with non-governmental organizations on Prof. Kindo was raised in the state of Jharkhand in mid-northeast of India, and studied law at the National Law School of
issues of human rights, consumer rights, right to information, lack of good rural governance, and legal aid to the poor. He India University in Bangalore. As a Ford Foundation International Fellow with advanced degrees in law from Notre Dame
established an NGO named Antim Naagrik (the last citizen) in his home town, Etawah, UP, India, to serve the cause of the and Stanford Law School, Prof. Kindo has had diverse career experiences. While at Stanford, he also worked as a Research
underprivileged. Analyst at the Economics Department.

Besides serving on the faculty of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, he also worked in the US with
human rights and international development organizations, as well as immigration law firms. Prof. Kindo worked with
Cultural Survival, Inc. in Cambridge M.A. and the Ford Foundation’s International Fellowship Fund Inc. at the Institute
of International Education in New York City. In the past, he also worked as a human rights lawyer in Jharkhand in India
(2001-2002). His academic interests lie in the areas of human rights, international law, public law, and law and society.

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 Dipika Jain
LL.B. (Delhi), LL.M. (Dalhousie), LL.M. (Harvard)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology
Prof. Dipika Jain is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology, India’s first research
centre on Health Law. She graduated in Political Science (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi in the
year 2001 and completed her Bachelors of Law (LL.B.) from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 2004. She received
a Masters of Law (LL.M. in Health Law) from Dalhousie University, Canada in 2007. The Canadian Institute of Health
Research (CIHR) granted her the Health Law and Policy Fellowship during the same year, and she earned an LL.M. from
Harvard Law School, USA in 2009. She was awarded the Harvard Graduate Scholarship.
Prof. Jain joined Human Rights Law Network, a national legal NGO in New Delhi in 2004 as a Legal Officer. She worked
on a refugee rights project with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), New Delhi and taught
International Refugee Law at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi. She is responsible for setting up the
HIV/AIDS and the Law Initiative (currently the largest HIV/AIDS legal aid network in the country) at HRLN. She worked
in the capacity of National Legal Co-ordinator for the HIV/AIDS Initiative from August 2004 - Jan 2008. She is the co-
author of The Struggle for Access to Treatment for HIV/AIDS in India (2008) published by Combat Law Publication;
co-editor of the two volumes on HIV/AIDS and the Law (2007) Combat Law Publication. She also authored a monograph
titled, Against Mandatory Pre-Marital HIV Testing in India (2008) also published by Combat Law Publication. She has
several short articles to her credit. Besides HRLN, she has worked with the Ministry of Health, India and International
Development Research Centre, Ottawa.
Prof. Jain’s areas of specialization, include, public health law, health systems and development, global family law, human
rights, patent law, socio-economic rights, and medical ethics.
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Vivek (Vik) Kanwar
LL.M. (NYU, USA), J.D. (Northeastern , USA)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
Prof. Vik Kanwar is Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
(CPLJ). He holds a B.A. in Social and Critical Theory from New College, a JD from Northeastern in 2000 and an LL.M.
from New York University School of Law (2001). Prof. Kanwar remained in New York between 2001 and 2006, pursued
post-graduate research in international law at NYU while holding administrative and research posts at Hauser Global
Law School Program, the Center on International Cooperation, and the Institute for International Law and Justice. He
also worked with leading comparative constitutionalists and public international lawyers while studying philosophy and
jurisprudence with diverse thinkers from the Anglo-American and Continental traditions, including Ronald Dworkin,
Jurgen Habermas, Ernesto Laclau and the late Jacques Derrida. During this time, he also spearheaded prison reform
efforts with the Centre for Constitutional Rights and founded legal education curricula in under privileged secondary
schools.
Prof. Kanwar has published in NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Indian Yearbook of International Law and Policy,
Critical Sense, the Yale Journal of Development and Human Rights, Ohio Northern Law Review, and the International
Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON). His work has been cited and discussed in forums ranging from the popular blog
Opinio Juris to the United States Supreme Court. Recently published articles include “Two Crises of Confidence: Securing
Non-Proliferation and the Rule of Law through Security Council Resolutions” (2008) and “Re-Tooling the Rule of Law:
Instrumentalism and the Implementation of Humanitarian Law in Failed and Fragile States” (2009).
In the past Prof. Kanwar has served as a consultant for the Centre for Constitutional Rights, FEGS, The Center for
International Cooperation, the Control Arms Campaign, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at
Harvard School of Public Health, and as Non-Governmental Consultant on the Drafting of an Arms Trade Treaty, United
Nations First Committee. He has been awarded academic grants for field research in India and Nepal in 1994 and 1995,
for research at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU (2000), the Denise Carty-Bennia Award (2000) Northeastern
University School of Law, as well as the Ella Baker and Jules Lobel Fellowship at CCR, and a Doctoral Study Fellowship
at NYU School of Law, and Westerfield Fellowship at Loyola New Orleans. He is listed in the 2010 Who’s Who in America
and registered as an expert in various intergovernmental and non-governmental forums. He was selected for the Brown
Institute on Academic Research in Global Governance, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, where he presented research
on the cultural dimensions of small arms control.
At present Prof. Kanwar is Co-Editor in Chief of the Jindal Global Law Review. He is admitted to the Bar of the State of
New York, USA.
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 Dipika Jain
LL.B. (Delhi), LL.M. (Dalhousie), LL.M. (Harvard)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology
Prof. Dipika Jain is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology, India’s first research
centre on Health Law. She graduated in Political Science (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi in the
year 2001 and completed her Bachelors of Law (LL.B.) from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 2004. She received
a Masters of Law (LL.M. in Health Law) from Dalhousie University, Canada in 2007. The Canadian Institute of Health
Research (CIHR) granted her the Health Law and Policy Fellowship during the same year, and she earned an LL.M. from
Harvard Law School, USA in 2009. She was awarded the Harvard Graduate Scholarship.
Prof. Jain joined Human Rights Law Network, a national legal NGO in New Delhi in 2004 as a Legal Officer. She worked
on a refugee rights project with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), New Delhi and taught
International Refugee Law at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi. She is responsible for setting up the
HIV/AIDS and the Law Initiative (currently the largest HIV/AIDS legal aid network in the country) at HRLN. She worked
in the capacity of National Legal Co-ordinator for the HIV/AIDS Initiative from August 2004 - Jan 2008. She is the co-
author of The Struggle for Access to Treatment for HIV/AIDS in India (2008) published by Combat Law Publication;
co-editor of the two volumes on HIV/AIDS and the Law (2007) Combat Law Publication. She also authored a monograph
titled, Against Mandatory Pre-Marital HIV Testing in India (2008) also published by Combat Law Publication. She has
several short articles to her credit. Besides HRLN, she has worked with the Ministry of Health, India and International
Development Research Centre, Ottawa.
Prof. Jain’s areas of specialization, include, public health law, health systems and development, global family law, human
rights, patent law, socio-economic rights, and medical ethics.
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Vivek (Vik) Kanwar
LL.M. (NYU, USA), J.D. (Northeastern , USA)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
Prof. Vik Kanwar is Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
(CPLJ). He holds a B.A. in Social and Critical Theory from New College, a JD from Northeastern in 2000 and an LL.M.
from New York University School of Law (2001). Prof. Kanwar remained in New York between 2001 and 2006, pursued
post-graduate research in international law at NYU while holding administrative and research posts at Hauser Global
Law School Program, the Center on International Cooperation, and the Institute for International Law and Justice. He
also worked with leading comparative constitutionalists and public international lawyers while studying philosophy and
jurisprudence with diverse thinkers from the Anglo-American and Continental traditions, including Ronald Dworkin,
Jurgen Habermas, Ernesto Laclau and the late Jacques Derrida. During this time, he also spearheaded prison reform
efforts with the Centre for Constitutional Rights and founded legal education curricula in under privileged secondary
schools.
Prof. Kanwar has published in NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Indian Yearbook of International Law and Policy,
Critical Sense, the Yale Journal of Development and Human Rights, Ohio Northern Law Review, and the International
Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON). His work has been cited and discussed in forums ranging from the popular blog
Opinio Juris to the United States Supreme Court. Recently published articles include “Two Crises of Confidence: Securing
Non-Proliferation and the Rule of Law through Security Council Resolutions” (2008) and “Re-Tooling the Rule of Law:
Instrumentalism and the Implementation of Humanitarian Law in Failed and Fragile States” (2009).
In the past Prof. Kanwar has served as a consultant for the Centre for Constitutional Rights, FEGS, The Center for
International Cooperation, the Control Arms Campaign, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at
Harvard School of Public Health, and as Non-Governmental Consultant on the Drafting of an Arms Trade Treaty, United
Nations First Committee. He has been awarded academic grants for field research in India and Nepal in 1994 and 1995,
for research at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU (2000), the Denise Carty-Bennia Award (2000) Northeastern
University School of Law, as well as the Ella Baker and Jules Lobel Fellowship at CCR, and a Doctoral Study Fellowship
at NYU School of Law, and Westerfield Fellowship at Loyola New Orleans. He is listed in the 2010 Who’s Who in America
and registered as an expert in various intergovernmental and non-governmental forums. He was selected for the Brown
Institute on Academic Research in Global Governance, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, where he presented research
on the cultural dimensions of small arms control.
At present Prof. Kanwar is Co-Editor in Chief of the Jindal Global Law Review. He is admitted to the Bar of the State of
New York, USA.
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 Abhayraj Naik
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NLS-B’lore), LL.M. (Yale)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
Prof. Abhayraj Naik is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence. He
studied law at the National Law School of India University (Bangalore) and obtained his LL.M. from Yale Law School.
Prof. Naik has been an editor of the National Law School of India Review and of Quirk magazine, and has served as a
law clerk at the Supreme Court of India, and continues to be actively associated in different capacities with progressive
non-governmental and independent research organizations in India and abroad. He publishes regularly in a variety of
academic and informal media, and is the author of Green Tapism: A Review of the EIA Notification 2006 [2007] (with Leo
F. Saldanha, Arpita Joshi, and Subramanya Sastry). Prof. Naik’s research interests include legal theory, law and society,
philosophy of law, law and language, and the fundamentals of tort and contract law. His current research projects focus
on interdisciplinary studies of privacy and forgiveness.
Shilpi Bhattacharya
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NUJS-Kolkata), LL.M. (Virginia, USA)
Assistant Professor
Prof. Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor at JGLS. Prof. Bhattacharya obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the
W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the
University of Virginia, Virginia, USA, where she also received the Olin Graduate Fellowship in Law and Economics. Prior
to joining JGLS, Prof. Bhattacharya practised as a tax lawyer from 2005 to 2006 with Economic Laws Practice in New
Delhi. She also worked in Singapore with Linklaters LLP, a British law firm, from 2007 to 2009, where she advised leading
investment banks and corporations on initial public offerings, private placements of shares, rights issues and offerings
of global depositary receipts and in particular, on US securities laws issues. Prof. Bhattacharya is enrolled as an attorney
with the New York State Bar.
Prof. Bhattacharya has published in various journals including The Economic and Political Weekly and The Journal of the
Indian Law Institute.
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James J. Nedumpara
LL.B. (MGU), LL.M. (Cambridge), LL.M. (NYU)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for International Trade and Economic Laws
Prof. James J. Nedumpara is an Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for International Trade and
Economic Laws (CITEL) at JGLS. Prof. Nedumpara has nearly ten years of experience in the field international trade and
regulatory laws. He has previously worked as an associate lawyer in the New Delhi offices of Dua Associates and Luthra
and Luthra Law Offices before taking up the position of Trade Officer (Legal) with the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD), New Delhi. Prof. Nedumpara has also worked as an intern at the Legal Affairs Division of
the World Trade Orgnization, Geneva, where he had the opportunity to assist the WTO panels on US-Havana Club (2001)
as well as the India-Auto (2001) disputes. Prof. Nedumpara received his Bachelor of Law (LL.B) Degree from Mahatma
Gandhi University, Kerala, India and also holds Master of Laws (LL.M) degrees from University of Cambridge, U.K in
commercial law and from the New York University (NYU) School of Law, USA in business and trade law respectively. He
is also a recipient of the Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship, the J.N. Tata Scholarship and the Bar Council of India
Fellowship for Young Lawyers.
Prof. Nedumpara’s current areas of focus include international trade law, competition law and taxation law. He has
co-authored two books on international trade issues, published by Macmillan Publishers India Ltd entitled Dealing with
Trade Distortions in Steel (2006) and Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in India (2005). His monograph South Asia and
WTO Dispute Settlement (2007) published by the South Asian Watch on Trade and Environment critically analyses all
WTO disputes involving South Asia during the period 1995-2007. Prof. Nedumpara has also contributed chapters and
articles on international trade issues in a number of edited books and was also a contributor in the Financial Express (FE
Insight) column during 2004-05. Prof. Nedumpara was involved in a number of consultancy engagements undertaken
by UNCTAD and has also advised a number of business firms on issues relating to trade remedy investigations and free
trade agreements. Prof. Nedumpara was interviewed in 2004 by the Sveriges Television (Sweden) on the impact of the
introduction of pharmaceutical product patent in India on consumers.
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 Abhayraj Naik
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NLS-B’lore), LL.M. (Yale)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
Prof. Abhayraj Naik is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence. He
studied law at the National Law School of India University (Bangalore) and obtained his LL.M. from Yale Law School.
Prof. Naik has been an editor of the National Law School of India Review and of Quirk magazine, and has served as a
law clerk at the Supreme Court of India, and continues to be actively associated in different capacities with progressive
non-governmental and independent research organizations in India and abroad. He publishes regularly in a variety of
academic and informal media, and is the author of Green Tapism: A Review of the EIA Notification 2006 [2007] (with Leo
F. Saldanha, Arpita Joshi, and Subramanya Sastry). Prof. Naik’s research interests include legal theory, law and society,
philosophy of law, law and language, and the fundamentals of tort and contract law. His current research projects focus
on interdisciplinary studies of privacy and forgiveness.
Shilpi Bhattacharya
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NUJS-Kolkata), LL.M. (Virginia, USA)
Assistant Professor
Prof. Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor at JGLS. Prof. Bhattacharya obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the
W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the
University of Virginia, Virginia, USA, where she also received the Olin Graduate Fellowship in Law and Economics. Prior
to joining JGLS, Prof. Bhattacharya practised as a tax lawyer from 2005 to 2006 with Economic Laws Practice in New
Delhi. She also worked in Singapore with Linklaters LLP, a British law firm, from 2007 to 2009, where she advised leading
investment banks and corporations on initial public offerings, private placements of shares, rights issues and offerings
of global depositary receipts and in particular, on US securities laws issues. Prof. Bhattacharya is enrolled as an attorney
with the New York State Bar.
Prof. Bhattacharya has published in various journals including The Economic and Political Weekly and The Journal of the
Indian Law Institute.
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James J. Nedumpara
LL.B. (MGU), LL.M. (Cambridge), LL.M. (NYU)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for International Trade and Economic Laws
Prof. James J. Nedumpara is an Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for International Trade and
Economic Laws (CITEL) at JGLS. Prof. Nedumpara has nearly ten years of experience in the field international trade and
regulatory laws. He has previously worked as an associate lawyer in the New Delhi offices of Dua Associates and Luthra
and Luthra Law Offices before taking up the position of Trade Officer (Legal) with the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD), New Delhi. Prof. Nedumpara has also worked as an intern at the Legal Affairs Division of
the World Trade Orgnization, Geneva, where he had the opportunity to assist the WTO panels on US-Havana Club (2001)
as well as the India-Auto (2001) disputes. Prof. Nedumpara received his Bachelor of Law (LL.B) Degree from Mahatma
Gandhi University, Kerala, India and also holds Master of Laws (LL.M) degrees from University of Cambridge, U.K in
commercial law and from the New York University (NYU) School of Law, USA in business and trade law respectively. He
is also a recipient of the Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship, the J.N. Tata Scholarship and the Bar Council of India
Fellowship for Young Lawyers.
Prof. Nedumpara’s current areas of focus include international trade law, competition law and taxation law. He has
co-authored two books on international trade issues, published by Macmillan Publishers India Ltd entitled Dealing with
Trade Distortions in Steel (2006) and Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in India (2005). His monograph South Asia and
WTO Dispute Settlement (2007) published by the South Asian Watch on Trade and Environment critically analyses all
WTO disputes involving South Asia during the period 1995-2007. Prof. Nedumpara has also contributed chapters and
articles on international trade issues in a number of edited books and was also a contributor in the Financial Express (FE
Insight) column during 2004-05. Prof. Nedumpara was involved in a number of consultancy engagements undertaken
by UNCTAD and has also advised a number of business firms on issues relating to trade remedy investigations and free
trade agreements. Prof. Nedumpara was interviewed in 2004 by the Sveriges Television (Sweden) on the impact of the
introduction of pharmaceutical product patent in India on consumers.
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 Oishik Sircar
B.S.L., LL.B. (Pune), LL.M. (Toronto)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Prof. Oishik Sircar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police
Studies. Prior to joining JGLS, Prof. Sircar was Research Fellow, Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Studies,
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. Prof. Sircar completed his LL.B. from ILS Law College,
University of Pune and LL.M. from the University of Toronto, where he was Graduate Scholar in Women’s Rights with
the Centre for Reproductive and Sexual Health Law. Prof. Sircar has worked with Amnesty International, the South Asia
Human Rights Documentation Centre, Delhi, the Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Pune, Calcutta
Research Group, Kolkata and has been a consultant with Action Aid India and ChildFund International.
Prof. Sircar researches and writes in the areas of postcolonial feminist theory, subaltern historiography, Foucaultian
governmentality, Marxist theory, sexual rights, migration studies, law and film, and cultures of human rights. He has been
a recipient of Fellowships from Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, Child Rights and You, India Institute
for Critical Action-Centre in Movement and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust. He has been a guest-editor for the issues
on Sexuality, Child Rights and Displacement for the quarterly journal Info Change Agenda, and has contributed book
chapters to edited volumes on gender-based persecution, social justice and sexuality, and women’s rights in international
law. He is the author of the monographs ‘Engendering Persecution: Refugee Law, International Protection and Violence
against Women’ (WISCOMP, 2006) and ‘Sexing Spaces of Emancipation: The Politics and Poetics of Sexuality within the
World Social Forum Process’ (CACIM, 2009).
Nathan Rehn
A.B. (Chicago), J.D. (Columbia)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy
Prof. Nathan Rehn is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and
Policy at JGLS. He received his B.A. with highest honors from the University of Chicago in 2004. In 2009, he received
his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Columbia Law School in the City of New York, where he won the John Ordronaux Prize for
graduating first in his class. He served as an Essays Editor on the Columbia Law Review, where he published a Note
entitled RICO and the Commerce Clause: A Reconsideration of the Scope of Federal Criminal Law. Prof. Rehn’s research
interests include contracts, law and economics, and the connection between legal reforms and economic development.
Prof. Rehn has worked at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Lahore and at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, the
New York law firm. He also worked as a proprietary trader for a financial firm in Chicago.
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Y.S.R. Murthy
M.Sc. (Stat.), M.A. (Human Rights) [London]
Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies
Prof. Y.S.R. Murthy has served in the National Human Rights Commission of India in various capacities for over 12 years
including as the Director, Policy Research, Programmes and Projects Division. As a civil servant, he also held a number
of responsible and sensitive assignments including as the Director, Media and Communications to the Prime Minister’s
Office, President’s Secretariat and Cabinet Secretariat from 2005-07.
He provided research support to the National Human Rights Commission’s efforts through Policy research, legal analysis
and monitoring of research projects on Human Rights. He spearheaded the Commission’s advocacy and monitoring
efforts in the areas of public health, HIV/AIDS, disability, rights of Scheduled Castes, mentally ill persons, refugees,
migrants and displaced persons, torture, terrorism and international human rights conventions. He was responsible for
organizing many national public inquiries, seminars as well as international and regional conferences. He represented the
Commission at many international conferences including in the Durban World Conference against Racism in 2001 as well
as the Durban Review Conference in 2009, Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, Commonwealth
Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights
Commissions.
Prof. Murthy edited the annual Journal of the National Human Rights Commission for over five years and its monthly news
letter for over three years. He was responsible for over 30 publications of the Commission on diverse aspects of Human
Rights. He published a number of books and articles. Significant ones among them include Human Rights Handbook by
LexisNexis Butterworth in October, 2007, Halsbury’s Laws of India, Human Rights title by LexisNexis Butterworth in
July 2005, co-contributor for District Magistrate’s Manual on Human Rights (2007) and Manual on Torture for Health
Professionals. (2004). In addition, he published a number of articles in newspapers and his talks on human rights were
broadcast by the All India Radio.
Prof. Murthy secured Masters Degree in Statistics from the University of Madras [1982-84] where he stood First in the
University. Subsequently he was awarded the British Chevening Fellowship by the British Council for pursuing M.A.
degree in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London in 1998-99. His research
interests include Human rights, terrorism, torture, International Criminal Court, right to development and International
Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law. Deeply interested in teaching, he was a visiting faculty in the Indian Law Institute,
Indian Society of International Law and Jamia Milia Islamia.
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 Oishik Sircar
B.S.L., LL.B. (Pune), LL.M. (Toronto)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Prof. Oishik Sircar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police
Studies. Prior to joining JGLS, Prof. Sircar was Research Fellow, Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Studies,
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. Prof. Sircar completed his LL.B. from ILS Law College,
University of Pune and LL.M. from the University of Toronto, where he was Graduate Scholar in Women’s Rights with
the Centre for Reproductive and Sexual Health Law. Prof. Sircar has worked with Amnesty International, the South Asia
Human Rights Documentation Centre, Delhi, the Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Pune, Calcutta
Research Group, Kolkata and has been a consultant with Action Aid India and ChildFund International.
Prof. Sircar researches and writes in the areas of postcolonial feminist theory, subaltern historiography, Foucaultian
governmentality, Marxist theory, sexual rights, migration studies, law and film, and cultures of human rights. He has been
a recipient of Fellowships from Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, Child Rights and You, India Institute
for Critical Action-Centre in Movement and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust. He has been a guest-editor for the issues
on Sexuality, Child Rights and Displacement for the quarterly journal Info Change Agenda, and has contributed book
chapters to edited volumes on gender-based persecution, social justice and sexuality, and women’s rights in international
law. He is the author of the monographs ‘Engendering Persecution: Refugee Law, International Protection and Violence
against Women’ (WISCOMP, 2006) and ‘Sexing Spaces of Emancipation: The Politics and Poetics of Sexuality within the
World Social Forum Process’ (CACIM, 2009).
Nathan Rehn
A.B. (Chicago), J.D. (Columbia)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy
Prof. Nathan Rehn is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and
Policy at JGLS. He received his B.A. with highest honors from the University of Chicago in 2004. In 2009, he received
his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Columbia Law School in the City of New York, where he won the John Ordronaux Prize for
graduating first in his class. He served as an Essays Editor on the Columbia Law Review, where he published a Note
entitled RICO and the Commerce Clause: A Reconsideration of the Scope of Federal Criminal Law. Prof. Rehn’s research
interests include contracts, law and economics, and the connection between legal reforms and economic development.
Prof. Rehn has worked at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Lahore and at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, the
New York law firm. He also worked as a proprietary trader for a financial firm in Chicago.
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Y.S.R. Murthy
M.Sc. (Stat.), M.A. (Human Rights) [London]
Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies
Prof. Y.S.R. Murthy has served in the National Human Rights Commission of India in various capacities for over 12 years
including as the Director, Policy Research, Programmes and Projects Division. As a civil servant, he also held a number
of responsible and sensitive assignments including as the Director, Media and Communications to the Prime Minister’s
Office, President’s Secretariat and Cabinet Secretariat from 2005-07.
He provided research support to the National Human Rights Commission’s efforts through Policy research, legal analysis
and monitoring of research projects on Human Rights. He spearheaded the Commission’s advocacy and monitoring
efforts in the areas of public health, HIV/AIDS, disability, rights of Scheduled Castes, mentally ill persons, refugees,
migrants and displaced persons, torture, terrorism and international human rights conventions. He was responsible for
organizing many national public inquiries, seminars as well as international and regional conferences. He represented the
Commission at many international conferences including in the Durban World Conference against Racism in 2001 as well
as the Durban Review Conference in 2009, Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, Commonwealth
Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights
Commissions.
Prof. Murthy edited the annual Journal of the National Human Rights Commission for over five years and its monthly news
letter for over three years. He was responsible for over 30 publications of the Commission on diverse aspects of Human
Rights. He published a number of books and articles. Significant ones among them include Human Rights Handbook by
LexisNexis Butterworth in October, 2007, Halsbury’s Laws of India, Human Rights title by LexisNexis Butterworth in
July 2005, co-contributor for District Magistrate’s Manual on Human Rights (2007) and Manual on Torture for Health
Professionals. (2004). In addition, he published a number of articles in newspapers and his talks on human rights were
broadcast by the All India Radio.
Prof. Murthy secured Masters Degree in Statistics from the University of Madras [1982-84] where he stood First in the
University. Subsequently he was awarded the British Chevening Fellowship by the British Council for pursuing M.A.
degree in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London in 1998-99. His research
interests include Human rights, terrorism, torture, International Criminal Court, right to development and International
Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law. Deeply interested in teaching, he was a visiting faculty in the Indian Law Institute,
Indian Society of International Law and Jamia Milia Islamia.
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 Priya S. Gupta
B.A. (North Carolina, USA), M.Sc. (LSE), J.D. (NYU, USA)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change
Prof. Priya S. Gupta is Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Centre for Women, Law, and Social Change
at JGLS. She has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied Economics, an MSc. from
the London School of Economics and Political Science and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Prior to joining the legal field, Prof. Gupta worked as a consultant in The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Washington,
DC. Her projects focused primarily on strategy and supply chain management for the consumer goods and retail sectors.
She researched on international trade and monetary policy and MSc. dissertation analysed International Monetary Fund
(IMF) conditionality and the changing power structures between loan recipient countries and the organizations.
While in Law School at New York University, Prof. Gupta combined her interests in Economics with Human Rights. She
was the recipient of the Lederman Milbank Fellowship in Law and Economics which allowed her to study, write, and
present papers on a chosen topic, Land Title in India, to attorneys at the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
in New York. She was also fortunate to have the opportunity to study human rights under Philip Alston, Smita Narula,
and Meg Satterthwaite. After graduation, she joined the international law firm, Linklaters LLP. While working in their
Structured Finance and Derivatives practice, she took an active role in the firm’s pro bono program, including representing
a victim of domestic violence in an asylum claim in Immigration Court.
Prof. Gupta has also acted as a consultant for Operation Asha, a world renowned tuberculosis control non-profit organisation
in India. As Assistant Director of the Centre for Women, Law, and Social Change, she is focusing on institution building
of the Centre and the JGLS Women’s Law Society, as well as furthering her research interests of Economic, Cultural, and
Social Rights for women. She is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.
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Prabhakar Singh
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NLIU-Bhopal), LL.M. (Barcelona)
Assistant Professor
Prof. Singh is Assistant Professor at the JGLS. Prof. Singh obtained his LL.M in International Economic Law and Policy
(IELPO) from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, on a grant of partial tuition scholarship, in 2009. He holds a B.A., LL.B
(Honors) from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, India (class of 2002-07). He also obtained a diploma from
the Academy of International Trade Law of the Institute of European Studies of Macao (IEEM), Macao SAR, in 2006 on
the grant of full scholarship. He researched at the Sri Lanka Law College, Colombo in May-June 2006 funded by M/S
Julius & Creasy, Colombo. He was a “visiting scholar” to the Court of Justice of the European Communities (the ECJ),
Luxembourg, under Advocate-General Miguel Poiares Maduro in May 2007, and later worked, as a legal associate, with
QuisLex Legal Services Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, from May 2007 to August 2008.
Prof. Singh’s areas of research are jurisprudence, post-colonialism, subaltern studies, law and semiotics, religion and
international law, sociology of law, legal anthropology, political science, history of international law, international trade
and economics, and third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). He has nearly fifteen publications to his credit.
He has published in journals and law reviews in India, Belgium, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, South Korea, Pakistan, United
Kingdom, and the United States of America, some of which are the Leiden Journal of International law, International
Community Law Review, the Journal of East Asia & International Law, African Journal of International & Comparative
Law, International Journal for Semiotics of law, Sri Lanka College Law Review, Times Journal of Construction and
Design, Indian Juridical Review, Global Jurist Topics, and the World Trade Review. He has also contributed two book
chapters, in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Problems (ed. S. Silverburg, Boulder/Colorado: Westview
Press, 2010, forthcoming) and in Revisiting Gandhi (ed. Dr. R.P. Dwivedi, New Delhi: Radha Publications 2007). He is
currently co-editing a book on Third World Approaches to International Law (2010).
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 Priya S. Gupta
B.A. (North Carolina, USA), M.Sc. (LSE), J.D. (NYU, USA)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change
Prof. Priya S. Gupta is Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Centre for Women, Law, and Social Change
at JGLS. She has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied Economics, an MSc. from
the London School of Economics and Political Science and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Prior to joining the legal field, Prof. Gupta worked as a consultant in The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Washington,
DC. Her projects focused primarily on strategy and supply chain management for the consumer goods and retail sectors.
She researched on international trade and monetary policy and MSc. dissertation analysed International Monetary Fund
(IMF) conditionality and the changing power structures between loan recipient countries and the organizations.
While in Law School at New York University, Prof. Gupta combined her interests in Economics with Human Rights. She
was the recipient of the Lederman Milbank Fellowship in Law and Economics which allowed her to study, write, and
present papers on a chosen topic, Land Title in India, to attorneys at the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
in New York. She was also fortunate to have the opportunity to study human rights under Philip Alston, Smita Narula,
and Meg Satterthwaite. After graduation, she joined the international law firm, Linklaters LLP. While working in their
Structured Finance and Derivatives practice, she took an active role in the firm’s pro bono program, including representing
a victim of domestic violence in an asylum claim in Immigration Court.
Prof. Gupta has also acted as a consultant for Operation Asha, a world renowned tuberculosis control non-profit organisation
in India. As Assistant Director of the Centre for Women, Law, and Social Change, she is focusing on institution building
of the Centre and the JGLS Women’s Law Society, as well as furthering her research interests of Economic, Cultural, and
Social Rights for women. She is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.
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Prabhakar Singh
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (NLIU-Bhopal), LL.M. (Barcelona)
Assistant Professor
Prof. Singh is Assistant Professor at the JGLS. Prof. Singh obtained his LL.M in International Economic Law and Policy
(IELPO) from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, on a grant of partial tuition scholarship, in 2009. He holds a B.A., LL.B
(Honors) from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, India (class of 2002-07). He also obtained a diploma from
the Academy of International Trade Law of the Institute of European Studies of Macao (IEEM), Macao SAR, in 2006 on
the grant of full scholarship. He researched at the Sri Lanka Law College, Colombo in May-June 2006 funded by M/S
Julius & Creasy, Colombo. He was a “visiting scholar” to the Court of Justice of the European Communities (the ECJ),
Luxembourg, under Advocate-General Miguel Poiares Maduro in May 2007, and later worked, as a legal associate, with
QuisLex Legal Services Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, from May 2007 to August 2008.
Prof. Singh’s areas of research are jurisprudence, post-colonialism, subaltern studies, law and semiotics, religion and
international law, sociology of law, legal anthropology, political science, history of international law, international trade
and economics, and third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). He has nearly fifteen publications to his credit.
He has published in journals and law reviews in India, Belgium, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, South Korea, Pakistan, United
Kingdom, and the United States of America, some of which are the Leiden Journal of International law, International
Community Law Review, the Journal of East Asia & International Law, African Journal of International & Comparative
Law, International Journal for Semiotics of law, Sri Lanka College Law Review, Times Journal of Construction and
Design, Indian Juridical Review, Global Jurist Topics, and the World Trade Review. He has also contributed two book
chapters, in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Problems (ed. S. Silverburg, Boulder/Colorado: Westview
Press, 2010, forthcoming) and in Revisiting Gandhi (ed. Dr. R.P. Dwivedi, New Delhi: Radha Publications 2007). He is
currently co-editing a book on Third World Approaches to International Law (2010).
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 Ami Galani Amit Bindal
B.A. (Denison, USA), J.D. (Washington, USA) LL.B. (Delhi), LL.M. (ILI)
Jindal Global Teaching Fellow Research Associate

Ms. Galani is the Jindal Global Teaching Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year and is a member of the Centre for Mr. Bindal obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Indian Law Institute, where he won a gold medal in Jurisprudence
Global Corporate and Financial Law & Policy at the JGLS. Ms. Galani serves as the faculty advisor for the Jindal Global and secured highest marks in Criminology, which was one of his areas of specialisation. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws
Law School Mooting Society. Ms. Galani is also an associate attorney in the Corporate, Finance and Tax practice area for (LL.B.) from the University of Delhi; and he graduated with Honours in English Literature from the Hans Raj College,
Hogan & Hartson, LLP, a large international law firm. She obtained her B.A. with honors distinction in Psychology and University of Delhi.
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Women’s Studies from Denison University in 2000 and her J.D. with honors distinction from Washington University in
Mr. Bindal’s areas of specialisation include Legal Theory, Human Rights, Criminology, Law of Evidence and Post-Colonial
St. Louis in 2004. Ms. Galani graduated from Washington University as a member of the Order of the Coif, an honors
Studies. Presently, he is also a visiting faculty member at the Indian Law Institute teaching Human Rights and Constitution.
society designating her as one of the top twenty students of a graduating class of over 200 students.
He has published various articles in Law Journals like Bangalore Law Review, Journal of Indian Law Institute.
During her years at Washington University School of Law, Ms. Galani was selected to serve as adjunct professor for
Mr. Bindal was one of the Senior Editors of the commemorative issue of the Jindal Global Law Review (JGLR), the flagship
undergraduate course at the university entitled “Women and the Law” and to serve as a legal intern with Forum for
journal of the JGLS (Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2009). He has also contributed various short articles and comments in
Women, Law and Development, a nongovernmental organization in Kathmandu, Nepal. Ms. Galani’s work with Forum
magazines such as Combat Law (Human Rights Law Network), and AWAZ Times. Mr. Bindal has researched as an intern
for Women, Law and Development was pursuant to a research grant awarded to her by a private women’s law organization.
with the National Commission for Women and contributed to the preparation of report on the Plight of Women Working
Ms. Galani was also the Notes & Article Editor of the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy and a selected
in Unorganised Sector. He was admitted to the Bar Council of India since 2008.
member of a prestigious appellate clinical program, through which she participated in the research and writing of a legal
brief filed with the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Galani served
as a research assistant in the Psychology Department of Case Western Reserve University. Ms. Galani’s research was part
of a large project funded by the United States National Institute of Health.

Ms. Galani’s areas of specialization include U.S. corporate and securities laws. Ms. Galani represents public and private
companies in a variety of corporate matters, including acquisition and divestiture transactions, securities offerings, SEC
and NYSE, NASDAQ and NYSE Amex stock exchange compliance, joint venture, limited liability company, partnership
and other non-corporate entity matters, and corporate governance and executive compensation matters. Over the last
five years, Ms. Galani has represented clients on transactions with combined value exceeding five billion dollars, including
both public and private company transactions and international transactions. Ms. Galani’s has in-depth experience
and knowledge of U.S. securities laws, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, laws relating to public and private securities
offerings, electronic proxy initiatives and executive compensation disclosure requirements. Ms. Galani participated in the
authorship of Illinois Business Entities and various presentations on executive compensation disclosure, majority voting
and structuring of merger and acquisition transactions.

Ms. Galani is actively involved in the mentoring and training of young attorneys in the area of corporate and securities
laws, and is an active participant with the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Legal Group. Ms. Galani is a member of the
American Bar Association, including the Business Law Section, the North American South Asian Bar Association and the
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Ms. Galani is admitted to practice law in Illinois and Colorado and to
appear before the Illinois Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois.

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 Ami Galani Amit Bindal
B.A. (Denison, USA), J.D. (Washington, USA) LL.B. (Delhi), LL.M. (ILI)
Jindal Global Teaching Fellow Research Associate

Ms. Galani is the Jindal Global Teaching Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year and is a member of the Centre for Mr. Bindal obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Indian Law Institute, where he won a gold medal in Jurisprudence
Global Corporate and Financial Law & Policy at the JGLS. Ms. Galani serves as the faculty advisor for the Jindal Global and secured highest marks in Criminology, which was one of his areas of specialisation. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws
Law School Mooting Society. Ms. Galani is also an associate attorney in the Corporate, Finance and Tax practice area for (LL.B.) from the University of Delhi; and he graduated with Honours in English Literature from the Hans Raj College,
Hogan & Hartson, LLP, a large international law firm. She obtained her B.A. with honors distinction in Psychology and University of Delhi.
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Women’s Studies from Denison University in 2000 and her J.D. with honors distinction from Washington University in
Mr. Bindal’s areas of specialisation include Legal Theory, Human Rights, Criminology, Law of Evidence and Post-Colonial
St. Louis in 2004. Ms. Galani graduated from Washington University as a member of the Order of the Coif, an honors
Studies. Presently, he is also a visiting faculty member at the Indian Law Institute teaching Human Rights and Constitution.
society designating her as one of the top twenty students of a graduating class of over 200 students.
He has published various articles in Law Journals like Bangalore Law Review, Journal of Indian Law Institute.
During her years at Washington University School of Law, Ms. Galani was selected to serve as adjunct professor for
Mr. Bindal was one of the Senior Editors of the commemorative issue of the Jindal Global Law Review (JGLR), the flagship
undergraduate course at the university entitled “Women and the Law” and to serve as a legal intern with Forum for
journal of the JGLS (Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2009). He has also contributed various short articles and comments in
Women, Law and Development, a nongovernmental organization in Kathmandu, Nepal. Ms. Galani’s work with Forum
magazines such as Combat Law (Human Rights Law Network), and AWAZ Times. Mr. Bindal has researched as an intern
for Women, Law and Development was pursuant to a research grant awarded to her by a private women’s law organization.
with the National Commission for Women and contributed to the preparation of report on the Plight of Women Working
Ms. Galani was also the Notes & Article Editor of the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy and a selected
in Unorganised Sector. He was admitted to the Bar Council of India since 2008.
member of a prestigious appellate clinical program, through which she participated in the research and writing of a legal
brief filed with the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Galani served
as a research assistant in the Psychology Department of Case Western Reserve University. Ms. Galani’s research was part
of a large project funded by the United States National Institute of Health.

Ms. Galani’s areas of specialization include U.S. corporate and securities laws. Ms. Galani represents public and private
companies in a variety of corporate matters, including acquisition and divestiture transactions, securities offerings, SEC
and NYSE, NASDAQ and NYSE Amex stock exchange compliance, joint venture, limited liability company, partnership
and other non-corporate entity matters, and corporate governance and executive compensation matters. Over the last
five years, Ms. Galani has represented clients on transactions with combined value exceeding five billion dollars, including
both public and private company transactions and international transactions. Ms. Galani’s has in-depth experience
and knowledge of U.S. securities laws, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, laws relating to public and private securities
offerings, electronic proxy initiatives and executive compensation disclosure requirements. Ms. Galani participated in the
authorship of Illinois Business Entities and various presentations on executive compensation disclosure, majority voting
and structuring of merger and acquisition transactions.

Ms. Galani is actively involved in the mentoring and training of young attorneys in the area of corporate and securities
laws, and is an active participant with the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Legal Group. Ms. Galani is a member of the
American Bar Association, including the Business Law Section, the North American South Asian Bar Association and the
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Ms. Galani is admitted to practice law in Illinois and Colorado and to
appear before the Illinois Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois.

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 Yugank Goyal
B.Tech. (NIT, Surat), LL.M. (Erasmus, Hamburg, Manchester)
Research Associate

Mr. Goyal is a Research Associate at JGLS. He obtained his LL.M. in Law & Economics (cum laude) as Erasmus Mundus
Scholar from Europe. He has studied in Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; University of Hamburg,
Germany and University of Manchester, UK. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from
NIT, Surat, India.

Mr. Goyal enjoys interdisciplinary studies and has special interest in law and economics, human rights, international
affairs, financial markets, public policy and intellectual property. He has worked as a Consultant with one of ICICI Bank’s
Joint Venture companies on legal and economic issues related to industries, infrastructure, policy studies and rural
development. He has served as Managing Director of The Edict, a national level law magazine. He has also worked with
several NGOs and in National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He has published widely and spoken in conferences
and forums in India and abroad.

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