Academic work at the University is a continuous ongoing process outside the classroom. Every Wednesday, an NLS Faculty Seminar is convened to spotlight cutting-edge academic research within the NLS community. This provides an opportunity for faculty members, researchers, and others within our broader network to discuss their ongoing and recent papers with the faculty and research scholars at the University.
Below is a list of faculty seminars at NLS.
Populism and Caste in contemporary India: Socio-political pragmatisms of caste associations
September 6, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Aniket Nandan and Dr. Karthikeyan Damodaran
The Search for a Link between Electoral Expenses, Regulation, and Corruption
August 23, 2023
Discussants: Prof. Jasmine Joseph and Prof. Sanjay Jain
Bail on Medical Grounds in India: A Search for Principled Jurisprudence
August 09, 2023
Discussants: Prof. Nanditta Batra and Dr. A. Nagarathna.
Tax Avoidance in Indian Tax Treaties: The Past, the Present and the Future
August 02, 2023
Discussants: DR. Nigam Nuggehalli
Deconstructing the Universal of Consent
July 26, 2023
Discussants: Ishika Saxena and Dr. Rinku Lamba
Status of Women in the Karnataka State Police
July 20, 2023
Discussants: Devyani Srivastava
Reflections on Rabindranath Tagore’s Religion of Man
July 12, 2023
Discussants: Prof. (Dr.) Rinku Lamba
Making India an Arbitration Hub: Does India Need a Separate Law for International Arbitration
May 24, 2023
Discussants: Sahana Ramesh and Sharada Shindhe
Dr. Arul George Scaria’s Report for the Delhi High Court.
May 17, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Arul Scaria
Right to occupy Airspace – Conflict between Airports and Landowners on the use of vertical space in India
April 19, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Betsy Rajasingh
“When will the dawn of divorce arrive?”: An Itinerary of Pre-Legal Ideas about Divorce in Stree Magazine, 1930-1955″
March 15, 2023
Speaker: Prof. (Dr.) Ashwini Tambe
Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality.
March 8, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Sebanti Chatterjee
Marxism and Postcolonialism: A Reparative Reading through Walter Benjamin’s Historical Materialism.
January 18, 2023
Discussants: Atreyee Majumder and Ishika Saxena
Discussion on the Paper “An Exceptionally Special Law: Constraints Over Emergency Powers under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.”
December 21, 2022
Discussants: Radhika Chitkara and Prof. Arun Thiruvengadam
Coining Legitimacy: Law and Technology in India
November 23, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Sukhalata Sen, Moderator: Dr. Mrinal Satish
Dr. Nikhil Menon on his Book: “Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development”
November 16, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Menon, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa
November 9, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Theunis Roux, Professor, University of New South Wales (Faculty of Law), Sydney.
Collaborating in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Strategies of International Research
November 7, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Victor V. Ramraj, Professor, University of Victoria (Faculty of Law), British Columbia
The Southern Turn Towards World Comparative Law
November 2, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Philipp Dann, Professor, Humboldt University (Faculty of Law), Berlin
Reposing ‘Faith’ in Gender Equality: Mapping the Consequences of the Sabarimala case for Religious Freedom and Gender Equality in India
July 20, 2022
Speaker: Megha Mehta, Visiting Assistant Professor, NLSIU
Co-producing India’s National DNA Data Bank: Bio-legality and the Question of Privacy
July 13, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Manpreet Singh Dhillon, Academic Fellow, NLSIU
A Life of Contradictions: Group Inequality and Socio-Economic Rights in the Indian Constitution
May 25, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
Hidden in Plain Sight- The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 as a Guide to Evidence Law Reform
May 18, 2022
Speaker: Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor of Law
Can we Really Devise Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Different from the Regular Procedures of Civil Trial Envisaged in the CPC? A Study of the Consumer Protection statutes
May 11, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Nanda Kishore, Visiting Faculty, NLSIU
The Evolution of the Right to Property in India: From a Law and Development Perspective
April 27, 2022
Speaker: Ms. Rashmi Venkatesan, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Reconsidering SEBI Disgorgement
March 30, 2022
Speakers:
- Renuka Sane, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
- S. Vivek, Research Fellow, Regulatory Governance Project, NLSIU
Climate-Change Induced Displacement and Rights-Based Protection: Need for a Sui Generis Convention
March 16, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India
March 9, 2022
Speaker: Rohan J Alva, Counsel, Supreme Court of India
Open Courts and the Regulatory Framework for Judicial Data
January 27, 2022
Speakers: Aakanksha Mishra, Dual Qualified Attorney (India and New York) | Law and Policy | Masters in International Trade Law; and Siddharth Mandrekar Rao, DAKSH’S Research Associate
Knocking on the Doors: India’s Challenges in Accessing Legal Services
January 19, 2022
Speakers: Varsha Aithala, Doctoral Candidate, NLSIU; and Karthik Suresh, Candidate for the European Master in Law and Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Cartel Leniency Program in India – Why No Race Here?
December 22, 2021
Speaker: Prof. (Dr.) T.S. Somashekar, Professor of Economics, NLSIU
Mapping the Elements of an Ambedkarite Jurisprudence
December 15, 2021
Speaker: Arvind Narrain, Visiting Faculty, NLSIU
The Meld Model: The Holy Grail of Indian Corporate Jurisprudence
December 1, 2021
Speaker: Rahul Singh, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
Studying cyber crime awareness and victimisation among female students and IT professionals in Karnataka – An Overview of the Research Methodology
November 17, 2021
Speaker: Tasneem Deo, Visiting Faculty, NLSIU
Legal Barriers to Accessing Safe Abortion Services in India: A Fact-Finding Study
September 29, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor, NLSIU
Marking the Market : Municipalizing Calcutta’s Spaces of Exchange
September 8, 2021.
Speaker: Dr. Anwesha Ghosh, Assistant Professor, History, NLSIU
Designed for Abuse: Special Criminal Laws and Rights of the Accused
August 25, 2021
Speaker: Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Revered ‘Routines’ in Medical Examination of Rape Accused
August 18, 2021
Speaker: Shreya Shree, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Introduction: Liberalism and Its Encounters in India
August 11, 2021
Speakers: Dr. Atreyee Majumder, Assistant Professor, Sociology, and Dr. R. Krishnaswamy
Rape adjudication in India in the aftermath of Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013: Findings from trial courts of Delhi
APRIL 7, 2021
Speaker: Preeti Pratishruti Dash, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Religious Penal Clauses in Context: Country Studies in Common Law Asia
March 24, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law, NLSIU
All that Glitters…Recent Law Reforms and their Impact on Child Marriages
March 10, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Sarasu Esther Thomas, Registrar & Professor of Law, NLSIU
Whither Evidence (Act) based reasoning?: Towards an Effects-based Approach in Indian Competition Jurisprudence
January 20, 2021
Speaker: Rahul Singh, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
In the Shadows of the State: How Rent Shape Our Cities
January 6, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Sushmita Pati, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Cross-Border Data Access for Law Enforcement: What Are India’s Strategic Options?
December 2, 2020
Speaker: Smriti Parsheera, NLS ‘LLB 2006, is a researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and a Fellow with the CyberBRICS Project hosted by the FGV Law School, Brazil.
Why Not Nature Rights?
Jan 8, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Manjeri Subin, Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), NLSIU
The Hocus Pocus of Corporate Purpose and the Visible Hand of the State – Insights from India’s CSR Experience
December 18, 2019
Speaker: Akshaya Kamalnath, Lecturer (Corporate Law), AUT Law School, Auckland
Competition Regulation in Two-Sided Markets: The Indian Experience
December 11, 2019
Speaker: Akash Krishnan, Teaching Associate (Economics), NLSIU
An Unclear Empiricism: A Review of the Death Penalty India Report
December 4, 2019
Speaker: Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor, NLSIU