Talk on ‘Urban Governance in Brazil, India and South Africa: Can Mega Cities be more Inclusive?’ | Patrick Heller, Brown University

NLSIU’s HUPA Chair on Urban Poor and the Law is organising a talk titled ‘Urban Governance in Brazil, India and South Africa: Can Mega Cities be more Inclusive?’ by Patrick Heller of Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Abstract

In the age of globalization, megacities in the developing world have emerged as the most contested sites of the socio-spatial contradictions of capitalism. In contrast to deterministic accounts that have dominated the literature, Patrick Heller combines insights from the developmental state and the urban governance literatures to show that political and institutional factors at the national and local level can shape divergent trajectories of urban transformation.  Comparing the modal megacity in three democratic, highly unequal, globally integrated and rapidly transforming countries, he focuses on service delivery and slum-rehabilitation to show that there is significant variation in the capacity of cities to coordinate growth and inclusion.  These varied outcomes are explained on the one hand by centre-local state relations that configure the degree of city capacity and governance autonomy, and on the other hand by the degree to which the local state is embedded in civil society.

About the speaker

Patrick Heller is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Sociology, and the Interim Director of Graduate Program in Development at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Excerpts from the Talk

On Brazilian cities

“So in 1988, Brazil gets the most progressive constitution. Most legal scholars think it’s the most progressive constitution. Among other things, it has a long list of social rights. These are actionable social rights. You can go to the courts and sue government if the state doesn’t deliver on these rights.

The rights also include the right to participation. So they introduce sectoral councils, participatory budgeting, all sorts of mechanisms to empower citizens to be part of governance as it were. And the movements themselves celebrate the sort of politics of what they call new citizenship. So explicitly rejecting the patronage and the populism of the past in favor of active citizen engagement.”

On Indian cities

“I wanna argue that Indian cities are cities without a real state, they’re run from the outside, they’re run through bureaucratic agencies and commissioners. There’s not a lot of coordination. In fact, a lot of coordination failure. The rent seeking interests tend to dominate. The incentives to local politicians are really perverse. They can’t do legislation. They can’t do policy, so they do patronage. They can get you a tanker truck. They can’t get you piped water. Right? And it creates all sorts of perverse incentives.”

On South African cities

“South Africa is well placed to actually address the legacies of racial exclusion. The ANC comes to power with 65% of the vote. It inherits a high capacity local state. Apartheid was national legislation that existed, which passed in 48, but the apartheid system was built at the city level. These were all white colonial cities, and they built apartheid, to separate themselves from the population but also to maintain them in a state of servitude and cheap labor, etc. And so they developed tremendous capacity, you know, enforcing systemic racial segregation.

You need a lot of data, a lot of policing. You need to be able to segregate the workplace, neighborhoods, social relations, public spaces, etc. So these are high capacity states that are inherited by the post apartheid government. They have a massive political mandate, 65% of the vote, to deracialize the city. The South African constitution is one that, you know, has some of the most enumerated social rights of any constitution in the world… Plus, it does constitute cities as constitutionally recognized third spheres of government with full autonomy and legislative powers and the power to tax, including voluntary taxes, etcetera.”

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The NLS Public Lecture Series | Book Discussion | Labour Justice: A Constitutional Evaluation of Labour Law

In our upcoming public lecture on December 18, 2024, NLSIU will host a book discussion with Supriya Routh, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The discussion is on his book titled ‘Labour Justice: A Constitutional Evaluation of Labour Law.’ NLS faculty member Dr. Saurabh Bhattacharjee will be the discussant.

About the Speaker

Supriya Routh is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Labour Law & Social Justice at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Abstract

This book argues that the imagination of the worker-citizen, inherent in citizens’ constitutional duty to work, is the very foundation of constitutional citizenship and its social justice agenda. The design of social justice in the constitution takes labour as its core ideological and political commitment, seeking to treat workers fairly for their social contribution through work. Employing this constitutional design, this book evaluates the recently repealed labour law against the constitutional metric of social justice. Drawing on the components of social justice, the book evaluates the new labour law in its capacity to promote market-based distribution, respecting basic individual liberties; the complementary redistribution of public goods, upholding the principle of solidarity; and worker participation in decisions about the operation of the market and the state. In offering such evaluation, the book conceives of work in its wider social relationship in contrast to its narrower private exchange rationale.

Excerpts from the Lecture:

“Indian labor law is unique to the Indian context, and it’s not based on contract. When I’m talking about labor law, there are two components of it. One is individual employment relationship and the other one is collective labor law wherein you have trade unions bargaining with employers. So, I’m arguing that Indian labor law has its own very unique approach to labor regulation that is not there in other countries, especially the West’s labor law, which is based on contract, private individual exchange relationship.”

“I am arguing that the Indian Constitution’s social justice framework is based on its understanding of worker citizen, and work is central to the understanding of Indian citizenship. And I’m sure you all know that many political theorists would argue that political citizenship is the primary holder of citizenship rights. But I am contending that the Indian Constitution makes worker citizenship as the core of the citizenship ideal.”

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AILET 2025 | Latest Updates and Instructions

AILET (All India Law Entrance Test) is a national level examination conducted by the National Law University Delhi every year for admission to B.A. LL.B.(Hons.), LL.M. and Ph.D. Programmes offered by the National Law University Delhi.

Instructions for Candidates

  • AILET 2025 examination will be held on December 8, 2024 (2:00 P.M- 4:P.M). The duration of the test is two hours. PWD Candidates will have extra 40 minutes.
  • Candidates shall be allowed to leave the Test Centre only after the test.
  • Candidates shall not be permitted to enter into the examination hall after 2:15 P.M.
  • Candidates writing the test at NLSIU must enter the University campus only through Gate 1.
  • Only the Candidates shall be allowed to enter the NLS campus. Parents/guardians of candidates shall not be allowed to enter the University campus.
  • No parking facility for vehicles is available.
  • No vehicle shall be allowed entry into the campus.
  • Please note, parking outside Gate 1 is not allowed to avoid traffic congestion in front of the test centre.
  • Candidates must show their Admit Card to enter the Test Centre.
  • Candidate’s Admit card and Photo ID proof will be verified at the verification desk.
  • Candidates are requested to follow the queue and the markings outside the gate.
  • Candidates are allowed to carry only the following items to the Examination Hall/Room:
    a) Blue/ Black Ball Point Pen
    b) Admit Card
    c) Any valid Photo I.D. Proof and photographs
    d) Transparent Water Bottle
    No other items will be allowed inside the exam hall.

For other test related instructions, candidates may check the following page – https://nationallawuniversitydelhi.in/.

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Workshop on Proposed Volume “Politics of Waiting and an Expanding Gender Horizon: The Social, Political, and Legal Discourses in India” | Organised By Centre for Women and the Law

The Centre for Women and the Law (CWL) is organising an in-person workshop on December 14, 2024, on the NLSIU campus for a proposed volume titled ‘Politics of Waiting and an Expanding Gender Horizon: The Social, Political, and Legal Discourses in India.’

Overview

The proposed volume aims to reimagine ‘gender’ through the conceptual framework of the ‘politics of waiting’. As we explore the social and legal discourses shaping and transforming ‘gender’ as an analytical category, we intend to push our thinking to examine the intersection between gender and waiting. This one-day workshop, designed to deliver constructive feedback to the contributors, is instrumental for manuscript preparation. Twelve chapters with contributors from all over the country are invited to the NLSIU campus. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

The editors of the volume are Dr. Debangana Chatterjee and Dr. Sarasu Thomas.

Here is the detailed concept note and the abstracts of the chapters of the volume.

 

 

Schedule

  • Session I | 9.30 am – 11.15 am | Breaching the Wait: The Discourses on Rights and Legal Phallocentrism
  • Session II | 11.30 am – 12.30 pm | ‘Labour’ of Love: Waiting as Neoliberal Subjects
  • Session III | 12.30 pm – 2 pm | Instrumentalising the Wait: A Site of Resistance and Tool for Oppression
  • Session IV | 3 pm – 4 pm | The Caged Bodies in Waiting
  • Session V | 4 pm – 5 pm | Waiting Amidst Humanitarian Crises: Juxtaposing the Global and Local

The workshop will commence at 9:30 am and conclude at 6 pm. Here is the full schedule.

Mode: Hybrid

Join in on Zoom here: https://nls-ac-in.zoom.us/j/93692575998?pwd=dU0QlIrlaGFD1ttn43xNeWcRDaE8Qo.1

Meeting ID: 936 9257 5998
Passcode: 701444

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The NLS Public Lecture Series | Book Discussion | ‘The Making of Subalterns across History’

In our upcoming public lecture on December 11, 2024, NLSIU will host a talk on ‘The Making of Subalterns across History’ with Prof. Ishita Banerjee-Dube, Professor-Researcher at the Centre for Gender Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City. Prof. Dube will discuss the volume titled ‘The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History’, Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee-Dube (eds), (Oxon and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2025) with NLS faculty member Dr. Anwesha Ghosh.

About the Speaker

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor-Researcher (Distinguished category) at the Centre for Gender Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City and a member of the National System of Researchers, (SNII-CONAHCYT, Mexico at the highest level). A historian by training, her research combines ethnographic-history, and perspectives of gender, subaltern and postcolonial studies, to address themes of empire, nation, gender, citizenship in India and Mexico, religion, law and power, caste and politics, food and emotion, time and temporality, and democracy and social justice in India over the 19th to the 21st centuries.

Banerjee-Dube has authored six books including A History of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Religion, Law, and Power (Anthem Press, 2007); and Divine Affairs (IIAS, 2001); edited over a dozen volumes among whom feature On Modern Indian Sensibilities (Routledge, 2018); Cooking Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and Caste in History (Oxford University Press, 2008); published articles in a wide range of acclaimed English and Spanish journals and anthologies such as Subaltern Studies; edited the series ‘Hinduism’ with DeGruyter open, and has held Visiting Professorship and invited Fellowships at institutions in Ecuador, Germany,
India and the US.

Abstract

The brief intervention will offer glimpses of how the project of The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History took shape and lay out the key concerns and critical contributions of the Introduction, the forty chapters and the Afterword written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Not intended as an exegesis of the South Asian Subalterns Studies project, which is taken as a point of reference, the volume explores the critical import of setting to work the study of the subaltern in our vastly transformed, rapidly shifting social worlds. It examines the  varied understandings of the subaltern within history and historiography, the critical humanities and the human sciences, and method and theory, grounding the queries in studies that span the parts and slivers of the Antipodes and the Americas, Diasporas and Oceanic worlds, Africa and the Middle East, apart from Europe and many South Asias – “areas” in which the notion of the subaltern continues to find distinct yet substantive articulations. The work also seeks to meaningfully juxtapose the optics of distinct subalterns and the perspectives of overlapping subjects. It traces practices and processes of indigeneity and indenture; gender and caste; slavery and apartheid; age and sexuality; settler- colonialisms and race; the Adivasi and the Dalit; nature and environment; diaspora and blackness; capital and property; science and technology; media and cinema; the body and the embodied; heteronormativity and queerness; dance and literature; theatre and state; nations and migrants; politics and justice; and of course the far-reaching interplay between these (analytical-experiential-affective) arenas.

Equality and the Law Workshop | Organised by NLSIU and University of Zurich

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) will host the ‘Equality and the Law’ Workshop in collaboration with the University of Zurich (UZH), Faculty of Law on December 3 and 4, 2024.

Conceived by Prof. (Dr.) Matthias Mahlmann, Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Prof. (Dr.) Arun Thiruvengadam, the Workshop was organised to (a) foster interdisciplinary engagement around problems of equality in the law and (b) catalyse collaboration between NLSIU and UZH early-career scholars.

Theme

Equality is a foundational concept of legal systems. It is a bedrock principle of the rule of law. Equality before the law and the equal application of law are centrepieces of legal system. The legal means to do so are manifold and differentiated.

There is wide ranging and, in many aspects, controversial discussion about what equality means within this general legal framework and in the practice of law. It certainly encompasses formal equality, but it is usually understood to demand more than this formal equality, namely some form of substantive equality. What this means in detail is far from clear and is constantly renegotiated in legal systems. These questions are not only questions of legal system but concern problems that have deep roots in the long reflection about what justice in ethics and politics actually means.

Aim of the Workshop

The aim of the collaborative workshop is to deepen the participants’ understanding of problems of equality in a theoretical, doctrinal, sociological and political sense. Furthermore, the workshop and its successors will serve to establish a fruitful research dialogue between junior and senior scholars of the participating institutions. This could be the basis for an informal network of scholars.

Format of Workshop

The workshop will take place over two days on NLSIU’s campus in Bengaluru. It will see active participation and presentations from all the participants, with the view of facilitating deeper exchanges between them as a collective. In addition to presenting/responding to comments on their own work, participants will comment on and discuss the papers of the others. The faculty members of both NLSIU and UZH will also contribute with introductory remarks, participation in the discussion and summaries of the discussions.

This workshop is supported by the NLSIU PhD Programme, the NLSIU VR Krishna Iyer Chair, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Leading House.

Programme Schedule

Day 1 - Dec 3, 2024

9:30 am-10:00 am:
Introductory remarks: VC Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy & Prof. Dr. Arun Thiruvengadam

10:00 am-10:45 am:
Paper 1 | Equality, Civic Identity and the Regulation of Private Schools in the Canton of Zurich
Author: Matthias Hächler
Discussant: Karan Chouhan
Commentator: Balu Nair

10:45 am-10:55 am:
Break

10:55 am-11:40 am:
Paper 2 | Democracy, Suffrage and the Citizen
Author:  Deepak Bhaskar
Discussant: Elif Askin
Commentator: Prof. (Dr.) Matthias Mahlmann

11:40 am-11:50 am:
Break

11:50 am-12:35 pm:
Paper 3 | Feelings towards Law: Societal Occurrence and Impacts on Legal Norms
Author: Elif Askin
Discussant: Abhilasha Chattopadhyay
Commentator: Dhivya Janarthanan

12:35 pm-01:45 pm:
Lunch Break

01:45 pm-02:30 pm:
Paper 4 | Equality: A Problematic Concept? – Decolonial Arguments and Counterarguments
Author: Nicole Nickerson
Discussant: Pranav Varma
Commentator: Aparna Chandra

02:30 pm-02:40 pm:
Break

02:40 pm-03:25 pm:
Paper 5 | Healthcare for All: A Utilitarian Approach to Equality and Non-Discrimination in Access
Author: Saheb Chowdhury
Discussant: Pascal Meier
Commentator: Saurabh Bhattacharjee

03:25 pm-04:00 pm:
High Tea

Day 2 - Dec 4, 2024

9:30 am-10:15 am:
Paper 6 | Conjugality in Crisis: Mediation, Gendered Power, and the Pursuit of Equality in Matrimonial Disputes
Author: Abhilasha Chattopadhyay
Discussant: Stefano Statunato
Commentator: Arun Thiruvengadam

10:15 am-10:25 am:
Break

10:25 am-11:10 am:
Paper 7 | Equality in Patent Licensing: Towards Ensuring Access to Standard-Essential Patents
Author: Gaurav Dahiya
Discussant: Yquem Zberg
Commentator: Betsy Rajasingh

11:10 am-11:20 am:
Break

11:20 am-12:05 pm:
Paper 8 | The Promise of Substantive Equality? Transplanting the Indirect Discrimination Test into India
Author:  Jai Brunner
Discussant: Matthias Hächler
Commentator: Arun Thiruvengadam

12:05 pm-12:15 pm:
Break

12:15 pm-01:00 pm:
Paper 9 | Bench Constitution and Case Assignments in the Indian Supreme Court
Author: Pranav Varma
Discussant: Saheb Chowdhury
Commentator: Balu Nair

01:00 pm-02:00 pm:
Lunch Break

02:00 pm-02:45 pm:
Paper 10 | Decoding Predictive Policing: Study of Criminalization and Marginalization in the Criminal Justice System
Author: Karan Chouhan
Discussant: Angelina Manhart
Commentator: Mrinal Satish

02:45 pm-02:55 pm:
Break

02:55 pm-03:40 pm:
Paper 11 | Literary Explorations of the Concept of Equal Worth in the Works of Primo Levi
Author: Corina Diem
Discussant: Jai Brunner
Commentator: Sidharth Chauhan

03:40 pm-04:10 pm:
High Tea

04:10 pm-04:55 pm:
Paper 12 | Supervenience and Simplicity: Why a more equal doctrine is a scientifically better one
Author: Pascal Meier
Discussant: Deepak Bhaskar
Commentator: Saheb Choudhry

04:55 pm-05:05 pm:
Break

05:05 pm-05:50 pm:
Paper 13 | Equality, Epistemic Culture, and Fundamental Rights
Author: Stefano Statunato
Discussant: Saheb Choudhry
Commentator: Arun Thiruvengadam

06:00 pm-06:15 pm:
Closing Remarks by Prof. Dr. Matthias Mahlmann

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D for Dramatics | Theatre Workshop

The DCRL Office is organising a theatre workshop, D for Dramatics on December 4, 2024. The workshop will be facilitated by Snehil Basoya, a theatre and improv actor and an expressive arts therapy practitioner.

Registration for this workshop is free for all NLSIU students and confirmation will be on FCFS basis for the first 35 participants, with a short waitlist in case of withdrawals. However, there is a penalty of Rs. 200 payable (through digiicampus) in case of a no-show for the workshop, or absence without prior intimation by 3:30 PM on December 3, 2024 (24 hours before the start of the workshop) via email to . In case of a change of date for the workshop, confirmed attendees will be informed in advance and no penalty will apply.

The form for registration is available here.

About the Workshop

D for dramatics is a playful theatre workshop for beginners. It is meant for any student who is excited to
explore theatre! The workshop will introduce games and activities on voice, body movement, stage presence, emotional expression and character work. Come and join if you want to experience something playful and spontaneous, along with learning some useful life skills.

About the Facilitator

Snehil Basoya is a theatre and Improv actor with 7+ years of professional experience in acting, writing and direction in Bangalore. He holds Diploma in Film Acting from Barry John Acting School, Mumbai (2015) and has performed in Improv shows and Festivals across Singapore, Manila, Thailand, Bangalore and Mumbai. Currently, he is part of multiple theatre groups in various capacities – Illuminating Windows (scripted theatre), First Drop (playback theatre) and The Reluctant Hustlers (Improv).

He is also a certified Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner, trained in applications of psychodrama, arts therapy, movement therapy and drama therapy. He conducts multiple theatre-based workshops for various groups for acting and improv training, leadership coaching and emotional growth.

CLAT 2025 | Latest Updates and Instructions

Welcome to CLAT 2025!

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national level entrance exam for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 22 National Law Universities around the country. CLAT is organised by the Consortium of National Law Universities consisting of the representative universities.

Instructions for Candidates

  • CLAT 2025 examination will be held on December 1, 2024 (2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M). The duration of the test is two hours. PWD Candidates will have extra 40 minutes.
  • Candidates shall be allowed to leave the Test Centre only after the test is over.
  • Candidates shall not be permitted to enter into the examination hall after 2:15 P.M.
  • Candidates must enter the NLSIU campus through Gate 1.
  • Only the Candidates shall be allowed to enter the University campus. Parents/guardians of candidates shall not be allowed to enter the University campus.
  • No parking facility for vehicles will be available. No vehicle shall be allowed entry into the campus.
  • Candidates must show their Admit Card to enter the Test Centre.
  • Candidate’s Admit card and Photo ID proof will be verified at the verification desk.
  • Candidates are requested to follow the queue and the markings outside the gate.

Test Centres in Karnataka

● National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
● St. Joseph’s College of Law, Bengaluru
● Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
● JSS Law College, Kuvempunagar, Mysuru
● SDM Law College, Mangaluru
● Karnataka State Law University (KSLU), Hubli

For other test related instructions and important dates, you may check: https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2025/

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Justice E.S. Venkataramiah Centennial Memorial Lecture | Dec 22, 2024

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) is organising the Justice E.S. Venkataramiah Centennial Memorial Lecture on Sunday, December 22, 2024. The lecture on the topic ‘Reimagining Constitutional Institutions: Integrity, Efficiency, and Accountability’ shall be delivered by Hon’ble Mr. Justice P.S. Narasimha, Judge, Supreme Court of India.

The event will be held at 11 am at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 43, Race Course Road, High Grounds, Bengaluru

About Justice E.S. Venkataramiah

Justice Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah served as the 19th Chief Justice of India. He previously served as a judge of the Karnataka High Court, as well as the Advocate General of Mysore. His daughter, Hon’ble Mrs. Justice B.V. Nagarathna, is a judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Justice E.S. Venkataramiah enrolled as an advocate in the Karnataka High Court on January 5th 1948 and worked as a Special Government pleader starting from June 1969. He served in this position until March 5th 1970, when he was appointed as Advocate General of Mysore. On June 25th 1970, he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court. On October 11th 1970, he became a Permanent Judge of the Karnataka High Court, where he served for nearly 9 years. On March 8th 1979, he was elevated to the Supreme Court. He became the Chief Justice of India on June 19th 1989 and retired at the end of the same year on December 17th. After retiring from the Supreme Court, Justice Venkataramiah taught Constitutional Law at NLSIU from 1992-97, during which  time he held the M K Nambyar Chair at the University.

According to the Supreme Court Observer, he was a part of benches that pronounced 720 judgments. Of these, he authored 256 judgments during his term at the Supreme Court.

Programme

1. Lighting of Lamp and floral Tribute to Justice E. S. Venkataramiah
2. Welcome by Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, NLSIU
3. Tribute by Justice Mukul Mudgal, Former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court
4. Introduction of the Speaker by Hon’ble Mrs. Justice B. V. Nagarathna, Judge, Supreme Court of India
5. Lecture by Hon’ble Justice P. S. Narasimha, Judge, Supreme Court of India on the topic – “Reimagining Constitutional Institutions: Integrity, Efficiency, and Accountability”
6. Felicitation of the Speakers
7. Vote of Thanks by Prof. (Dr.) N. S. Nigam, Registrar, NLSIU

RSVP: Registrar, NLSIU | E-mail: registrar’ | 080-23010000
Note: All guests are requested to be seated by 10:45 a.m.

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NLS Faculty Seminar | Challenges of ChatGPT for Higher Education and Policy Responses in Asia: Investigating the First Year of ChatGPT

In this week’s faculty seminar, Dr. Devyani Pande, Assistant Professor (Public Policy), NLSIU, will present a paper titled ‘Challenges of ChatGPT for higher education and policy responses in Asia: Investigating the first year of ChatGPT,’ that she co-authored with Dr. Panchali Guha, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Singapore Management University,

Abstract

Since its introduction in November 2022, ChatGPT, a generative AI (GenAI) model has disrupted higher education due to its impact on pedagogy, scientific writing, curriculum development, and educational assessment. Higher education systems (HEIs) and governments around the world are grappling with the issue of incorporating the use of ChatGPT in teaching and learning, and the potential impacts of doing so on educational quality and equity.

This study uses Factiva database to examine articles published in Asia in understanding the benefits and challenges of ChatGPT along with policy responses of the countries in the first year of its introduction. We conduct a thematic analysis of 1359 articles to find benefits for students and teachers, and challenges such as plagiarism, incorrect information, and impact on future jobs. The policy responses across countries at the level of governments and HEIs has been different with mostly a knee-jerk reaction of a ban followed by provision of guidelines for use of GenAI.

Based on the findings, we recommend introduction of training on the use of ChatGPT for educators and students, improving digital literacy in countries, adaptive policymaking for higher education, and coordination of HEIs and the governments to introduce measures for GenAI in higher education.