Meet Our Department of Revenue Chair Professor | Prof. (Dr.) Nigam Nuggehalli

Prior to this appointment, he served as the Registrar of NLSIU since August 2021, where he was responsible for the administration of the University. Prof. Nigam brings with him nearly three decades of academic and professional experience as a taxation law specialist.

Prof. Nigam has held several distinguished academic positions, including Dean, School of Law at BML Munjal University, Gurugram; Associate Professor at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, where he led the LLM programme; and Principal Lecturer at BPP Law School, London, where he taught tax law and commercial law, while leading a team of academics in delivering undergraduate programmes in jurisprudence and postgraduate programmes in commercial law and international tax law.

Before joining academia, Prof. Nigam has worked as a tax lawyer in New York and is a member of the New York Bar and the India Bar (Karnataka). As a lawyer and as a law academic, he has practiced and taught a variety of legal subjects (contracts, commercial law, corporate law, taxation) with reference to the legal regimes in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.

He has extensive research and publication experience in legal issues relating to international taxation, commercial law, and statutory interpretation. He is the author of a leading text on Indian international taxation.  He is also a member of two government committees – the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), and the Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI). He is also on the governing board of International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation (ITRAF).

In addition to his new role, Prof. Nigam will also serve as the Registrar In-charge until further notice.