JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Patron for the Journal
Chief Patron
Chief Patron of the Journal
PROF. (DR.) G.S. BAJPAI
VICE-CHANCELLOR, NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, DELHI
Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai serves as the Vice Chancellor of National Law University Delhi. He is equipped with more than thirty years of professional experience as an author, researcher, teacher and administrator.
He has previously served as the Vice Chancellor at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab, and Registrar at National Law University Delhi. He has also served as Senior Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Law), Chair Professor at K.L Arora Chair in Criminal Law, and Chairperson of the Centre for Criminology & Victimology at National Law University Delhi. Before that, he served as a Professor (Law and Development) & Chairperson at the Centre for Criminal Justice Administration, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. He has also held positions at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (1989), Bureau of Police Research & Development (1989- 1995), Punjab Police Academy, Punjab and Department of Criminology & Forensic Science, University of Saugar, M.P.
Under his guidance, as many as 12 students have already completed doctoral dissertations (Ph. D.). In addition to a Master’s specialisation in Criminology and Criminal Justice, he holds a doctorate in victimology and a post-doctorate in criminal justice from Leicester University, U.K., as a Commonwealth Fellow at the Department of Criminology, Leicester University, U.K.
He served as convenor of the Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, tasked with spearheading historic reforms in criminal law in India. Also, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Govt. of India has nominated Prof. GS Bajpai as a Member of the Committee for conferring statutory status to the ‘Right to Repair’ under the statutory framework of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.
Prof. Bajpai is also the nominated Member of the Delhi Legal Service Committee of the High Court of Delhi. He is a Member of the Advisory Board for Development of Legal Education & Legal Profession of the Bar Council of India and a Member of the Standing Committee of the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India. He is also a Member of the Expert Committee of the UGC to frame guidelines for introducing the Course on Law for Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education. Prof. Bajpai has been designated a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.
Prof. Bajpai has authored twenty-two books/monographs, more than sixty papers, over a hundred op-eds in leading dailies like Indian Express, the Hindu, and the Tribune and thirteen project reports. His books (2011) ‘Witness & Criminal Justice Systems’, ‘On Cyber Crime & Cyber Law’, ‘Situational Crime Prevention & Crime Reduction’ and ‘Victimological Narratives on Gender Violence’ (2014), Victim Justice- A Paradigm Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System” and “Judgments that Shaped the India Jurisprudence” published (2017) by Thomson & Reuters, ‘Living on the Edge’ and ‘Juvenile Justice’ (Bloomsbury (2019) have been well-received. His recent publications include ‘Handbook of Laws and Case Laws for Victims of Crime’, Thomson Reuters (2022), and Fast Track Courts in India Promise & Performance, published by Satyam Law International (2022) and ‘Hate Crime in India’ from Springer (2023) are noteworthy.
He is the editor of two prestigious international journals: Journal of Victimology & Victim Justice (published by Sage Publications) and Indian Journal of Criminology, a publication of the Indian Society of Criminology since 1972.
National Law University Delhi, Dwarka Sector 14, Delhi – 110078
Patron of the Journal
PROF. (DR.) RUHI PAUL
REGISTRAR, NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, DELHI
Ruhi Paul is a Professor of Law at the National Law University, Delhi. She has been teaching ADR and other courses both at the NALSAR, Hyderabad and at NLU, Delhi, to both graduate and undergraduate students since 2006. She is the Director of the Centre for ADR at NLU, Delhi since 2008. She is awarded Research Fellowship at Asian Law Institute (ASLI), National University, Singapore for 2018-19 for research is Designing Evaluation Systems for Court Annexed Mediation Centre in India. She is also the co-ordinator for DIAC and NLU Delhi’s first jointly offered online Diploma course in Law & Practice of Arbitration.
She is a trained mediator and certified arbitrator. She has also had the experience of working at the chambers of Shri. Vipin Sanghi (now CJ of Uttarakhand HC) and Shri. Arun Kumar (now Judicial Officer). She has held various administrative positions at both NALSAR and NLU Delhi.
Her interest in mediation dates back to her Master of Laws degree. Her dissertation was on Online Dispute Resolution which was a relatively new area of research in India in 2004. Her doctoral thesis was first of its kind in India. She undertook the study of the working of the Mediation Centres established in Delhi.
She was invited by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Mediation Bill 2021 to offer opinion on the Bill and most suggestions given were accepted and the Bill was amended. She was invited to offer comments/suggestions for World Bank Group’s new initiative ‘Business Enabling Environment’ Pre-concept note in respect of dispute resolution.
She has been actively engaged in various research projects with various departments of the Government of India, which included Sub-National Governance, Legal Assistance Programme for Land, Village Peace Makers Programme, ProBono work, among others. She also ran a technology driven clinic on legal aid for women in distress along with the Ministry of Women & Child Welfare. She was a member of the drafting committee of the Global Educational Law Forum (GELF) for drafting a Global Agenda for Education Rights.
She is an editor and peer reviewer of a number of reputed Journals. She has presented several research papers at various national and international conferences. She has conducted workshops for training faculty members in Teaching ADR methods. She has been regularly invited to deliver lectures on ADR Methods to the Judicial Academy and to Government Departments. She has designed course modules on ADR for various organisations. Her current research is on how to evaluate mediation services provided by the courts and how to address emerging challenges like ethics in mediation, regulation of private mediation, accreditation of mediators, necessity of a law on mediation, etc
National Law University Delhi, Dwarka Sector 14, Delhi – 110078
Advisory Board Members
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Advisory Board Member
PROF. (DR.) RITU DEWAN
VISITING PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Ritu Dewan was the first-ever woman Director of the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, and the founder-member of the first Centre of Gender Economics. She has over a hundred publications, including 20 books and monographs. Prof. Dewan was a member of the Feminist Economists’ Group for Engendering the 12th and 11th Five Year Plans, and is closely associated with training and capacity-building related especially to gender issues, and has conducted numerous workshops for several state governments, including Jammu & Kashmir, Goa, Tamil Nadu, etc. She is also currently President of the Indian Association of Women’s Studies. Her research focus is linked primarily to issues and concerns of marginalised groups and movements.
Institute for Human Development
256, 2nd Floor, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase – III, New Delhi – 110020
Advisory Board Member
PROF. BABU MATHEW
PROFESSOR, NLSIU BANGALORE
Babu Mathew is the former Registrar and faculty at NLSIU. He was also part of the Trade Union movement and various other social movements taking up issues of bonded labour, child labour, displacement and destruction of the livelihoods of the marginalised.
He combined the teaching and practice of Human Rights, and during the last six years, he served as Country Director of Action Aid International in India. In this capacity, he was in charge of evolving a ‘Rights’ policy and implementing a Human Rights agenda with a special focus on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in 25 states of India. He led the process of presenting a Shadow Report focusing on the excluded communities of India before the relevant UN Committee in Geneva.
National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Gnana Bharathi Main Rd, Opp NAAC, Teachers Colony, Nagarabhavi,
Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560072
Advisory Board Member
PROF. B.T. KAUL
PROFESSOR & FORMER CHAIRMAN, DELHI JUDICIAL ACADEMY, DELHI
Professor B.T. Kaul was the former Chairman of the Delhi Judicial Academy and has served as a Professor at the University of Delhi. With a 34-year teaching-intensive career, he specialises in Criminal Law, Labour Law, Intellectual Property Laws and Interpretation of Statutes. He has an LL.B. and LL.M. from Delhi University, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and a PhD from Delhi University. He received a UGC Research Fellowship for 6 months in 2007 and is involved with the Indian Law Institute and the Indian Society of International Law.
K.R. Mangalam University, Sohna Road, Gurugram, Haryana 122103
Advisory Board Member
PROF. DR. RANBIR SINGH
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AND FORMER VICE-CHANCELLOR, NLU DELHI
Prof. (Dr) Ranbir Singh is the former and founder Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi, which was established by the Delhi Government in 2008. Currently, he is pro-Vice Chancellor of IILM University. In just a short span of 12 years, he has steered NLU, Delhi, which has been ranked as the 2nd best law school in India in– the 2018 rankings. It’s the acknowledgement of his administrative and leadership abilities that NLU, Delhi, is now recognised not only in India but also at the international level.
With over two decades of experience in heading the law school, he carries the aura of a visionary who, as an outstanding statesman and academician, has shown immense commitment and contribution towards changing the legal education landscape of the country. Prior to his stint in NLU, Delhi, he was the founder and Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, University of Law, established by the Andhra Pradesh Government and had been at its helm since its inception in 1998. Prof. Singh’s acumen took NALSAR to great heights as a well-known premier institution for legal education and research in the country. He has been a Vice-Chancellor for over 20 years now.
IILM University, Plot No. 69-71, Golf Course Road Sector 53, Gurugram, Haryana
Advisory Board Member
PROF. (DR.) RUTH DUKES
PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Ruth Dukes is a professor of labour law. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2005 and holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the London School of Economics.
Professor Dukes is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She is also a member of the Adapt International Scientific Committee, the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights, the Project Board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, and the Editorial Board of the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal. In 2011/12, she was an Early Career Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, she visited the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and served on the International Scientific Committee of the Labour Law Research Network. In 2022, she was the Innis Christie Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada.
University of Glasgow, School of Law, Stair Building, 5-9 The Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
Advisory Board Member
PROFESSOR ALAN BOGG
PROFESSOR IN LAW, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL LAW SCHOOL
Alan joined the Bristol Law School in 2017 as a Professor of Labour Law. Previously, he was a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. He has a broad teaching and research interest in the general fields of labour, employment and work laws. He is interested in exploring these areas from philosophical, doctrinal and comparative perspectives. His recent work has used political philosophy to explore problems in the regulation of work. He is also interested in the worker-protective aspects of common law reasoning. His current research projects are examining freedom of association, common law fundamental rights, the role of criminalisation in work relations, and the future of the social democratic constitution.
University of Bristol Law School, Wills Memorial Building Queens Road Clifton Bristol, BS8 1RJ
Editor-in Chief
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Sophy K. J.
Associate Professor and Director, CLLRA
Dr. Sophy K. J. is Associate Professor of Law at the National Law University Delhi. She is currently the Director of Centre for Labour Law Research and Advocacy (CLLRA). Her areas of research interest are Law relating to Labour and Development, Gender and the Law, Legal History and Anthropology.
National Law University Delhi, Dwarka Sector 14, Delhi – 110078
Managing Editor
Managing Editor
Dev Dhar Dubey
Research Associate, CLLRA
Dev Dhar Dubey is currently working with the Centre for Labour Law Research and Advocacy (CLLRA) as editor-in-chief. He is UGC-NET & JRF Qualified, Research Associate, CLLRA, NLUD.
National Law University Delhi, Dwarka Sector 14, Delhi – 110078
Senior Editors
Senior Editor
PROF (DR). ROOPA MADHAV
Dr. Roopa Madhav holds a PhD in Law from SOAS, University of London, an LL.M (Public Service Lawyering) from New York University and a B.A.LL.B (Hons) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Post her graduation in 1993; she practised law in the fields of labour law, service law, property law, commercial law and family law before the courts in Mumbai and Bangalore. She was a Research Fellow at the International Environmental Law Research Centre, working on a project mapping water law reforms in the country. She has been an associate professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and is a visiting faculty member at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and Tamil Nadu National Law University.
Vidyashlip University, 125, Bettenahalli, Kundana Hobli, Chapparkallu Road,
Bengaluru - 562110
Senior Editor
PROF (DR). DEBASIS PODDAR
Dr. Poddar is professor at NLUJAA Assam and worked in premier institutions, including two National Law Universities, before joining National Law University Assam. Besides his Ph.D., M.Phil. in Law, and LL.M., he was awarded an M.A. in three social studies subjects, e.g., Political Science, Literature, and Education. He has eighty-odd pieces of publication to his credit, including those published in several flagship journals of National Law Universities. He was awarded a Fellowship by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for his visit to the International Training Centre in the Italian Republic. He is invited by leading academic institutions of repute to offer deliberation on myriad occasions. Immediately before joining here, he held the position of Dean at Xavier Law School in St. Xavier’s University Kolkata since its inception. His areas of interest include but are not limited to international law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, etc.
National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam, Hajo Road, Amingaon, Guwahati–781031, Assam (India)
Senior Editor
DR. MAYA JOHN
Dr. Maya John is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. She has a doctoral degree in History from the University of Delhi. She has published on the evolution of labour law in colonial India, the relationship between caste and the labour market, the question of education in the colonial and post-colonial period, challenges faced by unorganised workers in contemporary times, and problems with the current labour law regime. Her areas of interest include labour laws, social movements, caste and the history of reservation, dynamics of women’s participation in the colonial and post-colonial labour market, trends in the women’s movement, state formation in India, and modern European history. She teaches modern European history, early colonial history of India, contemporary history of India, and history option papers under the B.El.Ed course. Qualifications: Ph.D., Department of History, University of Delhi.
University of Delhi
North Campus, Delhi - 110007
South Campus, Benito Juarez Marg,
South Moti Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi - 110021
Senior Editor
DR. DIPA SINHA
Dipa Sinha has done her MA in Economics from JNU, MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked on food rights, nutrition and public health issues. Before joining AUD, she worked with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court (on the Right to Food), Centre for Equity Studies and Public Health Research Network. and is actively involved with the Right to Food Campaign.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Kashmere Gate Campus,
Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate,
Delhi-110006
Senior Editor
SAWMIYA RAJA RAM
Prof. Sawmiya Rajaram is an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to Be University). She received her higher education from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. She previously worked as an International Trade Law Expert for analysing and drafting responses to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Notifications. This response was cleared by the Department of Commerce, Government of India, and sent to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which effectively became India’s official position in the WTO. She has also worked as a Junior Local Expert (Technical Regulations) in a project run by EU-CITD. Assisted a technical team in conducting a ‘Gap Analysis’ involving a comparison of the EU’s system of Technical Regulations with that of India’s. Interacted with various regulatory agencies, industry bodies and domain experts, among other stakeholders from across the country. Contributed to the preparation of a guidebook on developing technical regulations in India. It has notably advocated for a common framework for Indian regulators. She has also assisted Adv. Deepak Singh, Ex-Deputy Director General (BIS)), in drafting two Bills on the Conformity Assessment Procedure for India. Her areas of interest are public international law, international trade law, European Technical Regulations and IPR
Jindal Global Law School
Sonipat Narela Road, Near Jagdishpur Village, Sonipat, Haryana 131001
Associate Editors
Ms. Shraddha Dubey
Assistant Professor, NALSAR
Mr. Shardool Kulkarni
Thesis Programme Candidate, Tel Aviv University
Mr. Gaurav Chaudhary
PhD Candidate, NLU Delhi
Nikita Agarwal
Movement lawyer, Policy practitioner and Aspiring Academician
Chinmayi Naik
Labour researcher, Policy practitioner, and Urban planner
Kavya Bharadkar
Research Scholar, University of Bristol Business School
Ms. Nandita Gugnani
Assistant Professor, GNLU Silvassa
Ms. Saumya
Phd Candidate and Fullbright Scholar, NLU Delhi
Mr. Shubhojeet Dey
Ph.D. Candidate at Ambedkar University, Delhi
Shraddha Jain
Ph.D. Candidate at Centre for Development Studies
Avi Majithia
Informal Sector Researcher
S Aishwarya
Informal Sector Researcher