Presentation by Dr. Loveleen Bhullar, University of Cambridge | JSW Centre for the Future of Law, NLSIU
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 4:00 pm
The JSW Centre for the Future of Law at NLSIU is launching a series of presentations on contemporary scholarship by leading academics. The first session will be an online presentation by Dr. Loveleen Bhullar, Assistant Professor in Environmental Law, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She will present a paper titled ‘Double Trouble: Regulation of Antimicrobial Resistance through New Technologies’ on August 20, 2025 at 4 pm.
The presentation will cover Professor Bullar’s ongoing work on the subject in an upcoming paper. Mr. Ashwin Sapra, Partner (Head – Pharma & Healthcare), Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, will be the discussant.
The Centre’s series of presentations will feature leading scholars on novel scholarship and ongoing work, to enable sharing feedback and perspectives. One of the key thematic areas for the Centre’s work is ‘health, bio‑technology and ethics’, where regulation of medicine, healthcare, access to healthcare and competing concerns will be investigated.
About the Speaker
Dr. Lovleen Bhullar is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Queens’ College. Previously, Dr Bhullar was an Assistant Professor in Birmingham Law School (2020-2024) and a Research Fellow in Regulation and Antimicrobial Resistance at Edinburgh Law School (2018-2020).
Dr Bhullar is interested in the role of law and policy in addressing antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental degradation and water pollution, with a focus on the global majority regions. [Read more]
Abstract of the paper
Antimicrobial resistance or AMR refers to the development of resistance to antimicrobials among microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites, which makes it difficult to treat infections. Not only does AMR threaten human, animal and plant health, it is also an environmental challenge that contributes to and exacerbates the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and environmental pollution. A host of existing and “new” technologies have been proposed to address AMR across the human, animal, environmental and plant health sectors.
I adopt the One Health approach to unpack the problem of AMR in India, and examine the role of technologies as part of the regulatory response; and the problems with regulation of technologies themselves. My aim is to highlight the complex and temporal nature of regulation and technologies and their interaction with the socio-economic and political environment, especially in the Global South, and the implications for legal scholarship and practice.
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