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Balu G Nair

Assistant Professor of Law

Teaching

Courses

Mar 2024

Education

  • BA LLB (Hons), WB National University of Juridical Sciences
  • LLM, University of Melbourne

Profile

Balu has previously worked as an Associate at the Dispute Resolution teams of AK Law Chambers (Chennai) and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (Bangalore), and also did a Public Interest Litigation fellowship at IDIA (Bangalore). He also worked for a year with the Supreme Court Observer as an Associate Editor. Since 2020, he has been working as a faculty member at the Jindal Global University. During this time, he has also been associated with the Indian Law Review, where he is currently an Associate Editor.

Balu’s research interests span the areas of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Tort Law. In particular, he is interested in examining the nature and extent of government liability in India for human rights breaches. During his time at the University of Melbourne, he was awarded the inaugural Alex Chernov scholarship, along with the JN Tata Endowment scholarship and Myers Family scholarship.

Publications

  • ‘Administering Indian Citizenship’ (co-authored with Prof. Farrah Ahmed), Indian Law Review, 7:1 (2023), http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2022.2162203.
  • ‘India: Public Law’,  Forthcoming in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Asian Law (2023).
  • ‘Abrogation of Art 370: Can the President Act without the Recommendation of the Constituent Assembly’, Indian Law Review, 3:3 (2019), 254-279.
  • ‘Kathakinu Purakile Sabhyatha’, essay in Malayalam on the legality of public display of affection, published in an edited volume titled ‘Chumbikkuna Manushyar Chumbikkatha Manushyar’ brought out by DC Books, ISBN: 978-81-264-6032-8 (2014).
  • ‘Seeds Bill, 2014: An Opportunity Lost’, Food Security Law: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Book), Centre for Food Security and Agro Economy, GNLU, Gandhinagar, ISBN 93-5145-026-0, Eastern Book Company (2014).
  • ‘The National Food Security Bill, 2011: An Opportunity Lost?’, 3 (Monsoon) Journal of Indian Law and Society (2012).
  • ‘Migrant Labour in India: Plugging the Loopholes in the National Legal Framework Governing Domestic Migrant Workers’ (2012), The 2nd MARG-AP Trust Labour Law Essay Competition, 2012 (Booklet) (2012).

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