Dr. Mohammad Umar

Dr. Mohammad Umar is an accredited civil/commercial mediator by the Singapore International Mediation Institute and is recognised as a mediator by the International Mediation Institute (Netherlands), the world’s top mediation standardisation body. He is NET-JRF qualified and holds a PhD from the Centre for International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

At NLSIU, he teaches International Commercial and Investor-State Mediation. Before this, he taught ADR, Public International Law, Law of Contract, Intellectual Property Law, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Health Law etc. to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Lucknow and Bennett University (The Times Group).

Dr. Umar has been a highly acclaimed academic, having reviewed, edited and published in SCOPUS-indexed journals. He has also edited a book on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. Before transitioning into independent conflict resolution practice as a consultant and trainer, Dr. Umar completed a semester course in Conflict Resolution at Harvard Law School, USA and was engaged as a law academic for more than seven years.

Utilising his experience in teaching, Dr. Umar has coached several stakeholders belonging to diverse backgrounds. His trainees hail from six countries and include ICF Certified Life Coaches, POSH trainers, public sector senior officials, doctors, industry professionals, institutional leaders, lawyers and academics. While imparting training or legal education in general, Dr. Umar ensures participants get experiential learning where they are put in real-time simulations and can find a way out. He has judged several mediation competitions organised by educational institutions and has been invited to train or speak at organisations like HAMPS, London School of Economics and Political Science, Indian Law Institute, Kathmandu School of Law, various National Law Schools and others.

Research Interests

• International Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Intellectual Property Rights

Publications

Academic Publications

• BOOK: Short Essays on AI and Human Rights, Satyam International, 2023 (Coeditor).
• Analyzing Draft BBNJ Agreement on Aspects Related to Wildlife Trade, in Pradeep  Kulshreshtha & Shashi Bhushan (eds.), 40 Years of UNCLOS: Examining the Success  and Failures Satyam International, 2023 (Principal Author).
• Book Review, Brian Tamanaha, “Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory,  Consequences OUP, 2021, pp. 217”, 1:1 DNLU Law Review 206-208 (2022)
• Law FDPs in India: Setting the Agenda in S. Sivakumar et al. (eds.), Clinical and  Continuing Legal Education: A Roadmap for India, Thomson Reuters, 2021.
• Book Review- Chitranshul Sinha, “The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in  India, Viking, 2019, pp. 280”, 1 BJLS (2020).
• Triple Talaq in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence and the Indian Conundrum in Manoj  Kumar Sinha and Furqan Ahmad (eds.), Dispelling Rhetoric: Law of Divorce and  Gender Equality in Islam, Indian Law Institute, 2019.
• Violence through Online Fake News and Need for Better Legal Regulation 3:1  NLUALPR 2017.
• Role of TRIPS in Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies to Developing and  Least Developed Countries, 9 RMLNLU Law Journal 2017.
• WTO and the Abandoned Multilateral Framework on Competition Policy in Manoj  Kumar Sinha and Susmitha Mallaya (eds.) Emerging Competition Law, Wolters  Kluwer and ILI, 2017.
• Mapping the History of Illegal Wildlife Trade and Conservation, 6:3 BLR 145 (Jan March, 2017).
• Case Comment- “European Communities — Measures Prohibiting the Importation  and Marketing of Seal Products”, Cochin University Law Review (January-March,  2015).
• Book Review- “Providing Peacekeepers: The Politics, Challenges and Future of United  Nations Peacekeeping Contributions edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp.447”, Cochin University Law Review (April June, 2014).

Popular Media Publications

• Landmark Kerala HC judgement clarifies Muslim women’s right to initiate divorce,  Indian Express, 26 April 2021.
• Decoding Disha Ravi’s bail order: What it reminds us of the Indian Democracy?,  Rising Kashmir, 27 February 2021.
• Fee hike in private schools: Ambiguous regulation of fees is making education a  privilege, Firstpost, 12 June 2017.
• Erosion of public universities’ autonomy: Is education on the way to become a  privilege in India?, Firstpost, 13 June 2017.
• Right to education: Global cuts in state funding indicate increased privatisation and  commodification, Firstpost, 14 June 2017.
• From Kyoto to Paris: Coming full circle of being “Trumped”, LiveLaw, 4 June 2017.
• How India can teach Pakistan a lesson with International Humanitarian Law, DailyO,  10 May 2017.