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B.Sc. (1974), LL.B. (1977), LL.M. (International Law), (1979) all from
Mysore University, M.A. (Political Science and Public Administration)
(1984) Karnataka University, Ph.D. (Intellectual Proper ty Rights)(2000),
Mysore University .
He was a Lecturer from 1979-1988, Reader in Law from 1988-1994,
Professor of Law from 1995-2002, and Principal of Vidyavardhaka Law
College, Mysore during 1992-2002. He was Visiting Faculty at the
Depar tment of Post-graduate Studies & Research in Law, Mysore
University, and Karnataka Police Academy between 1990 and 2002.
He joined the NLSIU as an Additional Professor of Law in 2002 and was
promoted as Professor of Law in 2006.
Presently he holds the Intellectual Proper ty Rights Chair [IPR Chair] of the Ministry of Human Resources and
Development at the NLSIU and he is the Coordinator of the Centre of Intellectual Proper ty Rights Research and
Advocacy [CIPRA] at the NLSIU.
Currently he is the Chairman of Post-Graduate Council.
His areas of specialization include Intellectual Proper ty Rights Law, International Law, Criminal Law and Law of
Evidence.
He visited University of Sussex, UK, during September-October 2004 under the DFID Project. He visited the WTO
and WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland during June-July 2005 and par ticipated in the Colloquium on IPR. He also
visited US at the invitation of the US Depar tment of Justice for studying the IPR enforcement models in US in
June-July 2006. He par ticipated in the Indo-German Colloquium on IP at Freiberg, Germany in May 2008 and at
the meeting of the Conference of Par ties (CoP) of CBD at Bonn, Germany. He also par ticipated in the IPR
workshop organised by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan delivered lecture on IPR issues
at Japan, Kyoto and Osaka from 6th September to 11th September, 2009.
He was Chief Warden of the Halls of Residence of NLSIU during 2002-2006.
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