The National Law School India University (NLSIU)is hosting a guest lecture on the topic, ‘The Emerging Global Order: From Liberalism to Illiberalism and Beyond,’ by Prof. (Dr.) B.S. Chimni as per the details below. The lecture is being held as part of NLSIU’s collaboration with the University of Zurich.

• Day & date: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
• Time: 5:00 PM
• Venue: Conference Hall, Training Centre

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A, which will be moderated by Dr Akhila Basalalli, Assistant Professor, NLSIU.

About the Lecture:

The global order is being rapidly transformed by a range of economic, environmental, political, and technological factors with radical implications for the future of humankind. In this backdrop the lecture will explore four questions to understand the ongoing transition from a liberal to an illiberal global order, its impact, and how nations and global civil society can address troubling outcomes. The questions are: What features manifest the emergence of an illiberal order? What are the reasons for the transition to an illiberal global order? Is the transition to an illiberal global order irreversible? Do we need a new social and political imagination to usher in a peaceful and just global order? The overall aim is to initiate a conversation on critical issues of our times.

About the Speaker:

Prof. (Dr.) B.S. Chimni served as a Professor of International Law at the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) School of International Studies and was Vice-Chancellor of W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) (2004–2006). He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown and Tokyo Universities, the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the American University of Cairo, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard, Minnesota, and York (Canada) universities and the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes. He has been elected an associate member of the Institut de Droit International, and is a member of the Academic Council, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School.

He is a former Member of the Governing Council, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), and a former Member, National Legal Services Authority (NLSA). In 2022, he was honoured by the American Society of International Law with its Honorary Membership. The University of London has instituted a scholarship in his name for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies by Distance Learning. He has also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has delivered several prestigious lectures, most recently the 2023 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures at Cambridge University. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of International Law.