News Type: Event

The National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, is pleased to invite you to the inaugural session of “Equalizing the Role of Women in Policing”, an online dialogue series featuring policies, programs and initiatives from India and around the world aimed at realizing women’s equitable growth and contribution to policing.

This is an initiative under the “Benchmarking and Strengthening the Role of Women in Karnataka Police” project of NLSIU. To know more about this project, click here.

Webinar 1 – Global Practices on Women in Police

The first session is on “Global Practices on Women in Police” and features Ms. Jane Townsley, Executive Director of the International Association of Women in Policing (IAWP) and a senior police officer (retired) with over 30 years’ policing experience in the United Kingdom. It will take place online on Tuesday, 20 December, from 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm IST.

Ms. Townsley will present global trends on women’s representation in law enforcement and highlight key lessons from ongoing reform initiatives aimed at achieving women’s equitable representation and participation in policing. The session will also include a presentation by Ms. Roshni Kapoor who worked with NLSIU to develop a compendium of good practices from around the world on women in policing. Ms. Kapoor will highlight specific measures including policies, programs and initiatives featured in the compendium on promoting women’s role in policing.

About the speaker:

Jane Townsley (UK) is a UN Women Senior Police Expert, as well as the co-author of the UN Women Handbook on Gender-responsive Policing Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence. Jane is a senior police officer (retired) with over 30 years’ policing experience in the UK, retiring in 2013 at the rank of Chief Inspector. Since retirement, she has established her consultancy specializing in capacity building for gender-responsive policing and service delivery to local communities and a focus on the empowerment of women in policing. She is the Executive Director of the International Association of Women Police (IAWP), having previously serving as President between 2009 and 2015. She has helped to lead the IAWP with members in over 70 countries.

Agenda:

5.30pm  – Welcome remarks
Dr. Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law, NLSIU

5.35pm – Introduction to the dialogue series
Devyani Srivastava, Principal Investigator, Women in Karnataka Police Project, NLSIU

5.40pm – Presentation on “Programs, Policies and Initiatives for Strengthening the Role of Women in Policing: A Compendium of Global Good Practices”
Roshni Kapoor, Consultant, NLSIU

6.00pm – Keynote Speech | “Women Policing across the Globe: Key Trends”
Ms. Jane Townsley, Executive Director, International Association of Women Police

6.45pm – Discussions

7.30pm – Concluding remarks

How do I register?

Register here for the session on 20 December.
*After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

About the Dialogue Series

With state police services in India set to recruit more women, the dialogue series intends to bring together police leaders, practitioners, researchers and global experts in a collective dialogue on different issues surrounding women in policing. It will feature ongoing research and initiatives on themes such as gender mainstreaming tools, women police units, role of women police in driving reforms, women police leadership, and gender sensitization with a view to facilitate learning and critical reflection.

The series will continue through next year and will be open to all.

We look forward to your support and active participation in the series to enable insightful and relevant discussions.

Watch the full video here:

 

 

This week’s public lecture will be delivered by Dr. Suraj Yengde on the topic “The Unearned Privileges of Meritorious Castes.” The lecture will take place on December 9, 2022 at 4 PM in the Old Academic Block.

About the Speaker

Dr. Suraj Yengde is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of History at Oxford University. Dr. Yengde is founder and curator of Dalit Film Festival and co-founder of Equity in Policy Education initiative started at Harvard.

He is also the author of the bestseller, Caste Matters (2019) and a co-editor of the award-winning anthology with Dr. Anand Teltumbde, The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections (2018). Caste Matters was a bestseller and listed as the “Best Non-fiction Book of the Decade” by The Hindu. The book’s Malayalam translation won the Kerala state award for translation. The book has been translated into three languages, with four more in progress. He has written over a hundred articles in academic and non-academic journals. His articles have appeared in Ethnic & Racial Studies, Diaspora Studies, Caravan, Seminar, Economic & Political Weekly, among others. He is currently working on two manuscripts. The first, Caste, A History of the World, is under contract with Allen Lane and the second, Biography of Dr B R Ambedkar under contract with Juggernaut.

Abstract

This talk will interrogate the personal-family centered question of caste and the privileges that remain unconcerned with the dominant castes claiming castelessness. How caste, culture, and capital interact in an intimate sense in the Brahminical fold will also be analyzed in the lecture.

 

 

We invite you to a discussion on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights’ organised at the Bangalore International Centre on Wednesday, 30th November.  The event will be held from 6 pm to 7.30 pm.

The discussion is a part of a project at the National Law School of India University, supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bengaluru. This project is an effort to bring together a multidisciplinary understanding of Artificial Intelligence’s impact on human rights, and locate these conversations in local contexts and vocabularies. The event will include a Keynote Speech by Prof. Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, followed by a panel discussion moderated by NLSIU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sudhir Krishnaswamy.

How do I attend the event?

The event is open to the public. To attend this event, please RSVP here.

Panelists:

Prof. Anupam Chander
Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Anupam Chander is Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center. The author of The Electronic Silk Road, he is an expert on the global regulation of new technologies. He has been a visiting law professor at Yale, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Cornell, and Tsinghua. He previously served as the Director of the California International Law Center and Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis. He serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a faculty advisor to Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and a faculty affiliate of Yale’s Information Society Project. He is the founder of the Georgetown Global TechNet Working Group.

A recipient of an Andrew Mellon grant on the topic of surveillance and Google Research Awards, he has served on ICTSD/World Economic Forum expert groups on the digital economy and as a consultant to UNCTAD and the World Bank. He serves as the principal book reviews editor of the Journal of International Economic Law.

Anita Gurumurthy
Executive Director, IT for Change

Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change where she leads research on the platform economy, data and AI governance, democracy in the digital age, and feminist frameworks on digital justice. Anita actively engages in national and international advocacy on digital rights and contributes regularly to academic and media spaces. She serves as advisor and expert on various bodies including the United Nations Secretary-General’s 10-Member Group in support of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism , the Paris Peace Forum’s working group on algorithmic governance, Save the Children’s ICT4D Brain Trust, and Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab‘s Board.

Siddharth Das
Co-founder, Univ.AI

Siddharth co-founded Univ.AI after a decade-long career in India’s fast growing fintech sector. Most recently, he served as CEO, Reliance Jio Money, the fintech arm of Jio. Earlier, he was COO of PayZippy, Flipkart’s first payments business, and COO of CRIF-HIghMark, India’s only and leading Credit Bureau focussed on credit for the underprivileged. Before moving to India, and into fintech, Siddharth spent a decade in San Francisco working first, as product manager for tech companies, and later as an Analytics business leader for FICO, the company that invented credit scoring. He holds a graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. Siddharth is a creator, whose interests range from architecture to audiophile sound. At the moment, he’s building a modernist house he designed, and alongside, working on finishing his third sound system.

Following this public event, an academic workshop will also be held at the NLSIU campus on 1st December 2022. The workshop will be a closed-doors event.

 

The next faculty seminar will feature a talk by Dr. Sukhalata Sen on “Coining Legitimacy: Law and Technology in India”. Dr. Mrinal Satish will be the moderator.

 Abstract of the paper

This paper examines the interface of law, technology and social lives of people in Calcutta in India. Set in the nineteenth century, it complicates transferring technologies of minting money to a distant region.  As most technologies arrived as a finished product of a distant country, it explores how its assimilation into a newer society affected the expectation and actual usage of that technology. To understand this better, it uses counterfeiting of the Indian rupees to explore the problems of assimilation and the inversion of such technologies. It juxtaposes this with the political and cultural claims of these technologies for the East India Company. It tries to explore how law was used to negotiate between such political claims of the Company and its misuse/ appropriation in the Indian society. The setting up of ‘illegality at a time when the Company did not have the monopoly over making money drives this paper towards its ambitions of connecting other parts of empire and facilitating trade.

Our next public lecture will be a talk by the guest speaker, Mr. Chiranjiv Singh on the topic: “Of Untold Stories and Unlikely Migrations: Partition Refugees in Bangalore.”

About the Speaker

Mr. Chiranjiv Singh, former Ambassador of India to UNESCO in Paris, joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1969. He retired in 2005 as Development Commissioner of Karnataka and Additional Chief Secretary to Govt. of Karnataka. During his career he held various positions in the central and state governments, some of which are: Principal Secretary, Finance Dept.; Development Commissioner Northern Karnataka; Principal Secretary, Agriculture; Secretary, Culture and Tourism Depts.; Director General Administrative Training Institute, Mysore, among many others. Since his retirement he is associated with numerous non-governmental organizations working in the fields of rural development, environment and culture. For his services rendered to the state he was awarded the “Rajyothsava Award” in 2005 by the Government of Karnataka. At present, he is President of the Alliance Française, Bangalore.

Abstract

Partition histories focus usually on migration to the north of the country, but several migrants came, through often odd and circuitous roots, to the south, particularly Bangalore. Mr Chiranjiv Singh, former Indian Ambassador to UNESCO, comes from one such family. Bringing his many years of experience both as a resident of Bangalore and as the Development Commissioner of Karnataka, Mr. Singh will explore, through a mix of autography and academic research, the story of Partition families mingling with the growing, complicated and fascinating urban space of Bangalore.

The Chair for Consumer Law and Practice (CLAP), National Law School of India University, Bengaluru is organising the International Conference on ‘New Facets on Consumer Protection Challenges and the Way Forward’ on November 19, 2022. The conference is being organised in association with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, GoI.

The conference will focus on a large array of issues on Consumer Protection. The agenda of the conference will mainly focus on following themes:

• Consumer Protection with respect to Sale of Goods and services through social media platforms;
• Consumer Protection from Fake Reviews on E-Commerce Portals;
• Consumer Protection & Fall Back Liability
• Imposing service charges on Consumer for the services rendered at Hotels and Restaurants;
• Recognition of Right to Repair as a Consumer Right;
• Assessment of Consumer Protection in India in par with International Best Practices
• Sustainable Consumerism
• Settlement of Cross Border Consumer Disputes
• Dark patterns and Consumer Protection

The one-day conference will be hosted via Zoom and will involve an inaugural session followed by six parallel sessions and the valedictory session. The full schedule along with the links to attend each session is available here.
For more details, please read the brochure here.

Registration

To register for the event, please click here.
Please note, certificates will be issued only to registered participants.

The faculty Seminar will feature a conversation between faculty member Rashmi Venkatesan and Dr. Nikhil Menon, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame. He is the author of the newly released book, “Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development”, Cambridge University Press, 2022. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A session.

About the Speaker

Dr. Menon is a historian of modern South Asia, specializing in the political and economic history of twentieth-century India. He was educated at Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and completed his PhD in History at Princeton University. Menon’s first book Planning Democracy was published in India by Penguin and elsewhere by Cambridge University Press. It was awarded the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences by the American Institute for Indian Studies for the best book manuscript on an Indian subject. An article from this project, on India’s first computers, won the Mahoney Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. His next book project is on Indian cultural diplomacy—a history of the Indian state’s pursuit of soft power through cultural diplomacy.

Abstract

India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to a socialist economy. Planning not only built India’s data systems, it even shaped the nature of its democracy. The Five-Year Plans loomed so large that they linked surprisingly far-flung contexts-from computers to Bollywood to Hindutva. The book brings the world of planning to life through the intriguing story of a gifted scientist known as the Professor, a trail-blazing research institute in Calcutta, and the alluring idea of ‘democratic planning’. Set amidst global conflicts and international debates, it reveals how India walked a tightrope between capitalism and communism. Planning Democracy recasts our understanding of the Indian republic, uncovering how planning came to define the nation and revealing the ways in which it continues to shape our world today.

The Centre for Child and the Law, NLSIU, is organising a two-day National Level Consultation with State Food Commissions on 7th and 8th November 2022.

About the National Consultation with State Food Commissions

We are in the 10th year of implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013 and in the 76th year of Indian Independence. But we are still tackled with issues like hunger and malnutrition. The country has secured 107th position among 121 countries and falls in the serious category as per the Global Hunger Index released on 13th October 2022. What needs to be done to tackle hunger and malnutrition? It is clear that having a legislation and schemes in place is not sufficient. There needs to be a robust implementation and monitoring mechanism in place to ensure that the intent of the law is achieved.

State Food Commissions play a critical role in this direction. They have the authority of a civil court and have powers to monitor the implementation of the Act. CCL NLSIU is organizing this National Consultation by bringing together State Food Commissions to interact, share their experiences, voice the challenges they face, and discuss the possible solutions to address the same. The consultation also aims to put forth recommendations by CCL NLSIU on law, rules and policies.

For further queries, please reach out to

Schedule

Day One: 7th November 2022

10.00 AM to 11.00 AM	Inauguration Welcome address – Prof. (Dr) Nigam Nuggehalli, Registrar, NLSIU Introduction – Dr Neetu Sharma, Coordinator, CCL NLSIU Launch of State Report Cards – Dr Nigam Nuggehalli, Prof. Babu Mathew and Dr Niranjanaradhya Presentation of the Food Insecurities and State Response (Background and overview) – Ms. Shruthi Raman, Project Coordinator, CCL NLSIU Address by Prof. Babu Mathew, Faculty, NLSIU Vote of Thanks – Ms. Sudha. S, Coordinator (Outreach Programmes), CCL NLSIU
11.00 AM to 11.15 AM	Tea Break
11.15 AM to 12.00 PM	Session 1 – Presentation by CCL on Food Security and State Responses (Individual States) – Ms. Sudha. S, Coordinator (Outreach Programmes), CCL NLSIU
12.00 PM to 1.30 PM	Session 2 – Sharing by SFCs (Jharkhand, Meghalaya) – Moderated by Prof. Babu Mathew, Faculty, NLSIU
1.30 PM to 2.30 PM	Lunch Break
2.30 PM to 4.30 PM	Session 3 – Sharing by SFCs (Punjab, Karnataka, AP) – Moderated by Mr. Haldhar Mahto, Former Member, Jharkhand State Food Commission
4.30 PM to 4.45 PM	High Tea

 

Day Two: 8th November 2022

9.30 AM to 10.00 AM	Importance of State Rules – Dr Niranjanaradhya. V.P, Development Educationist
10.00 AM to 11.30 AM	Session 4 – Sharing by SFCs (Telangana, Kerala) – Moderated by Dr Niranjanaradhya. V.P, Development Educationist
11.30 AM to 11.45 AM	Tea Break
11.45 AM to 1.30 PM	Session 5 – Presentation by CCL on Recommendations to Laws, Policies and Rules – Dr Neetu Sharma, Coordinator, CCL NLSIU Address by Dr M.T. Reju, Principal Secretary, Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Karnataka
1.30 PM to 2.30 PM	Lunch Break
2.30 PM to 4.00 PM	Consolidation and way forward – CCL NLSIU
4.00 PM to 4.15 PM	High Tea

 

The faculty seminar on “Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa” will be held on November 9, 2022. The speaker for this session is Dr. Theunis Roux, Professor and Head, School of Global and Public Law, University of New South Wales (Faculty of Law), Sydney.

About the Speaker

Before relocating to Australia in January 2009, Prof. (Dr.) Theunis Roux was (for four years) the founding director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), an independent research centre based on Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. His main research interest is in comparative constitutional law, focusing on the politics of judicial review in new democracies. He is a former Secretary-General of the International Association of Constitutional Law, and co-editor of the major loose-leaf commentary on South African constitutional law, Stuart Woolman et al Constitutional Law of South Africa. In addition to his academic work, he has acted as a consultant to the South African government in the areas of land restitution, land tenure reform, and regulation impact analysis.

Abstract

There are two grand narratives of the Indian and South African constitutional transitions. The first – older, and at one time virtually unchallenged – holds that these transitions were authentic moments of constitutional re-imagining. Not only did indigenous political actors craft genuinely autochthonous constitutions that were adapted to the challenges these countries faced. The constitutions they crafted extended the tradition of liberal constitutionalism in novel ways. In so doing, the Indian and South African constitutional transitions contributed to the global store of knowledge about the role of written constitutions in promoting human flourishing. The second narrative – newer but gathering strength – treats these transitions instead as great confidence tricks. Exploiting a temporary shift in the balance of geopolitical power, this narrative contends, the Indian and South African Constitutions offered majoritarian democracy with one hand and took it away with the other. Rather than autochthonous creations, both these constitutions are steeped in alien Western values. As such, they inhibit majoritarian democracy in all the ways that liberal constitutions always do, only in this instance, the additional problem is that they were imposed on unsuspecting indigenous publics. The Indian and South African Constitutions work in this way a form of epistemic silencing that is responsible for many of the ills that currently afflict these countries. After elaborating the two narratives in each setting, the paper proceeds to assess them. Rather than arguing directly in favour of one or the other, it examines their tendency to promote or detract from democratic constitutionalism. From this perspective, the problem with the second grand narrative – the decolonial story – is that it is incomplete. For us to have confidence in its prescriptions, its adherents need to explain how an inclusive, democratic constitutionalist process for moving towards a decolonial constitution can be constructed. What safeguards would be put in place to ensure that such a process is not dominated by political forces with an exclusionary conception of national identity? The first grand narrative points in the direction of incremental adjustment rather than complete constitutional overhaul. But it, too, needs to be clearer about how two supposedly progressive constitutions that are failing to live up to their expectations might be reformed to better realise their goals.