Institute of Public Policy, NLSIU is conducting its 7th webinar as part of the ‘A Career In Public Policy Webinar Series 2021.’ Faculty members from the Institute of Public Policy and alumni from the Masters in Public Policy programme will discuss practice. research and opportunities in the Public Policy discipline.
The webinar will take place on February 27, 2021 between 12 pm and 1 pm (IST).
Institute of Public Policy, NLSIU is conducting its sixth webinar as part of the ‘A Career In Public Policy Webinar Series 2021.’ Faculty members from the Institute of Public Policy and alumni from the Masters in Public Policy programme will discuss practice. research and opportunities in the Public Policy discipline.
The webinar will take place on February 13, 2021 between 12 pm and 1 pm (IST).
Register here: https://cutt.ly/ykHXbQW
Panelists
Snehil Singh (MPP 2015-17)
Policy Manager Ola Mobility Institute
Pratik Harish (MPP 2014-16)
Partner, Pragma Development Advisors
Savitri Phule Ambedkar Caravan (SPAC) is organizing a panel discussion on Institutional Casteism on 17th January 2021
About the event: A note from SPAC
On 17th January 2016, Rohith Chakravarti Vemula, a Dalit student and a Ph.D. scholar at the University of Hyderabad committed suicide. The events that followed Rohith’s death unmasked the tragedy of institutional casteism in India. As students, and more generally as citizens of India, we believe that it is our responsibility to understand and eliminate instances of institutional casteism. But for this, it is imperative for us to understand what it is and how it operates.
SPAC considers that the best way to honour Rohith’s memory is by educating people. With this purpose, SPAC humbly extends an invitation for a Panel Discussion on ‘Institutional Casteism’ on 17th January 2021 at 6 pm.
The panel will be witnessed by an open audience. Through this initiative, SPAC hopes to engage with the issues of Bahujan students and come up with ways to make university spaces as safe and accessible as possible. In pursuance of this, we have invited various heads of institutions, students, academics, activists, lawyers, and professionals to be a part of the event. We are excited that Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, NLSIU, will also be addressing the audience. We humbly invite you to be a part of the discussion that is not just important, but also necessary and indispensable to engage with.
Themes
The Panel Discussion will be based on the following sub-themes:
1) Rise of Right-wing politics in India and its Impact on Higher Education
2) The pervasiveness of Casteism in Universities and Academia
3) Issues of Affirmative Action and Reservation (in IITs, NLUs, and other elite institutions)
4) The merit of Caste and Caste of Merit: Defining Merit in Indian Higher
5) Educational Caste(ing) Universities: How to make universities a safe space for Bahujan students?
Panel Members:
The panel will consist of the following luminaries:
Prof. Ajantha Subramanian is a Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her book, The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India, tracks the relationship between meritocracy and democracy in India in order to understand the production of merit as a form of caste property and its implications for democratic transformation.
Prof. Bhangya Bhukya is a Professor and the Head of, Department of History at the University of Hyderabad. He specializes in Modern Indian History and has contributed extensively to the understanding of the evolution of the identities of the hillfolk and tribal communities in India.
Prof. C. Lakshmanan is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Developmental Studies. He has written extensively about the intersection of the Dalit identity with religion, politics, and even the Tamil film industry. He has recently co-authored Untouchable among the Untouchables: Case of Pudirai Vannars in Tamil Nadu.
Adv. Disha Wadekar is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court and with Project 39A. In the recent Hathras incident, she has filed an intervention in the Allahabad High Court for the implementation of the Atrocities Act in Uttar Pradesh. Wadekar has also headed a legal resource center set up under a project by the London School of Economics. Her work has involved representation in cases of campus discrimination, Forest Rights claims, and custodial torture and deaths. Wadekar was the youngest lawyer representing victims of violence at Bhima Koregaon Judicial Commission in 2017- 2018.
Prof. N. Sukumar is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi. He has years of experience in academia and has worked extensively to expose students to the Dalit standpoint while studying Indian Culture and Politics. He has spoken against the Brahmanical pedagogy in Indian Universities and also challenged an administrative decision to exclude works on the Dalit perspective.
Prof. Satish Deshpande is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. His research interests include caste and class inequalities, contemporary social theory, politics, and history of the social sciences and south-south interactions. He has written extensively on the changes experienced by India through the lens of class, caste, and religion.
Mr. Anurag Bhaskar is a Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He completed his LLM (2018-19) from Harvard Law School, where he studied courses on constitutional law, constitutional history and civil rights movement, race, poverty and development, gender justice, philosophy, and the legal profession.
The Centre for Environmental Law Education, Research and Advocacy (CEERA), National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in collaboration with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is organising an online training programme on ‘Environment Legislations, Interpretation, Enforcement, Legal and Statutory Requirements – Case Studies.’ The programme will be held from February 8 to 12, 2021.
About the Programme
The five-day online training programme focuses and aims to deliver on the Constitutional, Jurisprudential and Interpretation of the prevailing environmental legislations. The training programme is designed keeping in mind the stakeholders from Government, Industry, Lawyers, Researchers and others, contributing to the discussions and deliberations on contemporary environmental issues of national and international importance, developments across the Legislative and Judicial spectrum.
The programme will strictly be on registration basis and shall conclude with an ‘End Programme Test’ to ascertain the effectiveness of the sessions. View brochure and other details here.
Themes
Constitution and Legislative framework for Environmental Pollution and Protection;
Authorities and their role in Waste Collection, Management, handling and Disposal;
International Environmental Law, Doctrines and Principles; Balancing Business and Environment;
Cleaner Technology – Law and Compliance;
Criminal Laws, Procedure and Enforcement for abatement of Environment Pollution;
Judicial Standpoint, Case Studies and Statutory Interpretation.
Details:
Dates: Feb 8 – to Feb 12, 2021
Online event: Zoom Video Conference (Link will be shared at a later date)
Course fee: Rupees 11,800/- (inclusive of GST)
Course fee includes registration, reading material, and participation in the event.
Limited seats are available. To register, write to .
The Consumer Protection Act, 2019, came into force on 20th & 24th July, 2020 (two different dates for different sets of provisions of the Act) replacing the 33 year old Consumer Protection Act. 1986. The new Act strengthened the legal and policy framework towards achieving the avowed object of better protection of Consumer in India. This webinar will address the analysis of the provisions of CPA, 2019, specifically on E filing of Consumer Disputes & hearing of matters through video conferencing and aims to spread the awareness about the new Mechanism.
CLAP invites Advocates, NGO’s, Government officers, Academicians and others to join this informative session. E-Certificate will be issued to Registered Participant who attend the session and fill Feedback form.
Speakers
Hon’ble Mr. Justice R. K. Agarwal, President, National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, New Delhi, former Judge of Supreme Court of India
Hon’ble Mr. Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh, President, Karnataka States Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Bangalore
Dr. Ashok R Patil, Chair Professor, Chair on Consumer law and Practice, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
Participants
This webinar is open for Students, Lawyers, Research Scholars, Teachers, Judges, Professionals and Academicians, NGO or for anyone who is
interested in the topic of the Webinar. E-Certificates will be provided to all the registered participates who attend entire session through Zoom platform and submit the feedback form which will be provided before winding up of the program.
In the Indian history for the first time the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice (CLAP) has been established in August 2008, by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi at National Law School of India University, Bangalore to promote research, teaching and training in Consumer Law and Practice.
The Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, NLSIU along with Navrachana University, School of Business and Law, Vadodara is jointly organising a One Day National Webinar on ‘Consumer Protection Act, 2019: New Changes’ on December 21, 2020.
The webinar will touch upon the different aspects of consumer law and how new framework going to fulfil the current requirements of consumers. The redressal mechanism, mediation system and CCPA have been introduced/revised to make consumers familiarize and actualize with their day-to-day needs. This one day program mainly focused to provide the attendee with an insight to the new act and changes introduced by it.
SCHEDULE
10:00 to 11:00 AM: Inaugural Session & Address by Chief Guest
Chief Guest: Hon’ble Mr. Justice R. K. Agarwal, President, National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, New Delhi, former Judge of Supreme Court of India
11:00 to 12:00 PM: Session 1 – An Over View of Consumer Protection Act-2019
Speaker: Prof. (Dr.) Ashok R. Patil, Chair Professor, Chair on Consumer on Consumer Law and Practice, NLSIU, Bangalore
12:00 to 1:00 PM: Session 2 – Consumer Redressal System
Speaker: Mr. Jaideep Verma, Advocate, Founder- JaideepVerma & Associates, Advocates, Vadodara
1:00 to 2:00 PM: Lunch Break
2:00 to 3:00 PM: Session 3 – Liability of Medical Negligence under Consumer Protection Act
Speaker: Hon’ble Dr. S.M. Kantikar, Member of National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, New Delhi
3:00 to 4:00 PM: Session 4 – Consumer Protection in E-Commerce: Reforms in India
Speaker: Dr. Pratima Narayan, Advocate, Founder PartnerTechLawLogi Consulting LLP, Bangalore
PARTICIPANTS
This webinar is open for Students, Lawyers, Research Scholars, Teachers, Judges, Professionals and Academicians, NGO or for anyone who is
interested in the topic of the Webinar. E-Certificates will be provided to all the registered participates who attend entire session through Zoom platform and submit the feedback form which will be provided before winding up of the program.
WEBINAR DETAILS
Platform: Zoom/YouTube
Last Date for Registration: 20th December 2020
Registration Fee- Free
Non registered participants can view the live session on YouTube: Watch Live on YouTube
For more details/queries, please contact:
Ms Shivani Kinniwadi, President- Student Council – 7499925929
Ms Prayrana Singh, Secretary- Student Council – 9558758728
ABOUT NAVRACHANA UNIVERSITY
Navrachana University is a Private University established under the Gujarat Private University Act, 2009. The University has Five schools:
School of Business and Law, School of Engineering and Technology, School of Liberal Studies and Education, School of Environmental Design
and Architecture and School of Science. We have around 22 programs across all the schools. The University has embarked on a new educational paradigm that lays simultaneous emphasis on disciplinary education, inter-disciplinary education, professional education and general education. Under the aegis of School of Business and Law, the University runs a Five Years Integrated BBA,LLB Law programme.
ABOUT CHAIR ON CONSUMER LAW AND PRACTICE, NLSIU, BANGALORE
In the Indian history for the first time the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice (CLAP) has been established in August 2008, by the Ministry of
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi at National Law School of India
University, Bangalore to promote research, teaching and training in Consumer Law and Practice.
The session was chaired by Smriti Parsheera, NLS ‘LLB 2006, 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.
Her research focuses on digital rights and technology and the policy processes shaping these fields. She has previously worked with the Competition Commission of India and the United Nations Development Programme and was a part of the research secretariat for the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission.
Smriti graduated from the NLSIU, Bangalore and obtained her LLM from the University of Pennsylvania with a Certificate in Law and Business from the Wharton School. She is currently pursuing a PhD in policy studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The lecture will include a 45-minute talk by Smriti Parsheera followed by a discussion. Here is a link to the paper
Abstract:
Access to cross-border data for the state’s law-and-order-related functions is an integral piece of the law enforcement puzzle. State agencies’ ability to access data for such purposes is, however, shaped not only by domestic laws and practices but also by the laws of other countries and the state’s international commitments. In the case of India, the use of international cooperation mechanisms to balance efficient data access with protections for citizens’ privacy remains a relatively underexplored facet of its digital strategy. With its growing digital market, economic relevance for large global businesses, and strategic relationships with countries like the United States and those in the European Union (EU), India is well placed to not merely participate in but rather to lead the discussions on international data agreements on behalf of the developing world.
Her paper on ‘Cross-Border Data Access for Law Enforcement: What Are India’s Strategic Options?’ evaluates India’s present mechanisms for data access by law enforcement authorities and existing arrangements for cross-border data access. It also analyzes the emerging global movement toward direct data access arrangements. Such arrangements authorize agencies in one jurisdiction to make direct data requests to service providers based in another jurisdiction. The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in the United States is an example of a legislative instrument that allows the United States to enter into executive agreements of this nature.
Similar discussions are also underway in Europe under the European Commission’s e-evidence proposal involving its twenty-seven member countries and among the sixty-five states that are party to the Budapest Convention on Cyber Crimes. To date, India has not taken any concrete steps to evaluate the pros and cons of such arrangements. Neither has it paid serious regard to the critical and interconnected issue of reforming its domestic framework on lawful data access to ensure adherence with the fundamental right to privacy.
The Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University is organising an online lecture on India’s Foreign Policy in Post-COVID World as part of the ‘Occasional Lecture Series’ on December 15, 2020.
The lecture will be delivered by T. P. Sreenivasan, Former Ambassador of India and Governor for India of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Mr Sreenivasan is from the 1967 batch of Indian Foreign Service. He has authored seven books, including ‘Modiplomacy through a Shakespearean Prism’, ‘Applied Diplomacy through the prism of Mythology and Words’, ‘Words Adventures in Diplomacy’ as well as several columns on strategic matters.
The Paper on the Death Penalty India Report was presented by Mr. Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor, NLSIU.
Abstract: The Report opens up many ways and means by which India may engage in a meaningful conversation about the death penalty, and determine legislative policy on the subject.
Empirical studies on death row populations, often exploring effects of socio-economic or racial marginalization, are not uncommon across several
legal systems that used to, or continue to retain the death penalty on their statute books.’ Studies indicating over-representation of certain communities in prisons in India have also appeared with more or less regularity over the years, mostly depending on the data released periodically by the National Crime Records Bureau, through its annual “Prison Statistics India” report. A comprehensive survey of the men and women on death row in India, however, had not been carried out till the publication of the Death Penalty India Report by NLU Delhi in 2016. This, being the first of its kind study carried out in the Indian context is a welcome development in the country’s legal scholarship.
The seminar on ‘Why not nature Rights?’ was presented by Dr. Manjeri Subin, Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), NLSIU.
Law has always been seen as recourse to weed out quite a large number of problems and environmental harm is no exception. Built on a large number of concepts that have been eulogised for many years, laws and legal systems, around the world, have helped in shaping the progress of mankind. ‘Rights’ and ‘Duties’ have always been seen as two important elements of law. These help understand as to why we need laws in the first place and create some sort of a basis for the laws that exist, by connecting them with the present day societal needs.
The exact amount in which both these concepts gel is one of the factors that determine as to how effective a legal system is. This helps in asserting supremacy of law and ensures that the spirit of law is never lost. While both these concepts have been treated as the two sides of a same coin, one cannot but help that one has been given a predominance over the other; at least by the general public. Rights, provided by the state, were envisaged in such a way that they were given in lieu of one surrendering himself to the sovereign. Such surrender however, was conditional. The state was to provide rights that are necessary and also afford protection. Thus, the system was one in which there was a mutually beneficial relationship.
The lecture will be delivered by T. P. Sreenivasan, Former Ambassador of India and Governor for India of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Mr Sreenivasan is from the 1967 batch of Indian Foreign Service. He has authored seven books, including ‘Modiplomacy through a Shakespearean Prism’, ‘Applied Diplomacy through the prism of Mythology and Words’, ‘Words Adventures in Diplomacy’ as well as several columns on strategic matters.