CORNELL INDIA LAW CENTER

You are cordially invited to participate in the Inauguration of the Cornell India Law Center followed by a DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE on TRANSFORMING INDIA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM: PROPOSALS FOR REFORM

DR. ABHISHEK M. SINGHVI HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ARJAN K. SIKRI Senior Advocate Former Judge, Supreme Court of India Supreme Court of India International Judge Member of Parliament Singapore International Commercial Court will deliver the Lecture will preside over the Lecture

PROFESSOR SITAL KALANTRY PROFESSOR (DR.) C. RAJ KUMAR PROFESSOR DIPIKA JAIN Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Founding Vice Chancellor Vice Dean (Research) Faculty Director O.P. Jindal Global University Jindal Global Law School Cornell India Law Center (CILC) Member, Board of Advisors, CICL O.P. Jindal Global University

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FRIDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2020

REGISTRATION: 4:30 PM | LECTURE: 5:30 PM HOTEL AMBASSADOR SUJAN SINGH PARK, SUBRAMANIAM BHARTI MARG, NEW DELHI - 110003 5:30 pm – 5:45 pm Welcome Address and Introducing the Cornell India Law Center Professor Sital Kalantry Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School & Faculty Director, Cornell India Law Center (CILC) 5:45 pm – 5:55 pm Evolution of the Cornell-India Partnership and Introducing the Guests of Honor Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Founding Dean, Jindal Global Law School & Member, Board of Advisors, CICL Inauguration of the Cornell India Law Center 5:55 pm – 6:25 pm Distinguished Public Lecture Dr. Abhishek M. Singhvi Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India Member of Parliament

6:25 pm – 6:45 pm Presidential Address Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arjan K. Sikri Former Judge, Supreme Court of India International Judge, Singapore International Commercial Court 6:45 pm – 6:55 pm Discussion Presentation of the Mementos to the Guests of Honor 6:55 pm – 7:00 pm Vote of Thanks Professor Dipika Jain Vice Dean (Research), Jindal Global Law School O.P. Jindal Global University SHORT BIOS

DR. ABHISHEK M. SINGHVI Dr. Abhishek Singhvi is an eminent jurist, parliamentarian, visible media personality, well known columnist, author and commentator. (MP; National Spokesperson, Congress; former Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Law; eminent jurist; former Addl Solicitor General, India; former Chairman, AICC Law &Human Rights Department; writer, speaker, thinker, well known media personality. He is a Member of Parliament; the senior most National Spokesperson of the Congress Party; the youngest designated Senior Advocate, Supreme Court (at age 34); a former and youngest Additional Solicitor General of India (ASG) (at 37) and former elected Vice President, Supreme Court Bar Association. Abhishek Manu Singhvi is currently the Chairman of the AICC All India Law and Human Rights Department and Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Law, Justice, Personnel & Grievances. He was formerly Vice Chairman of Congress’ Media Department. His qualications are: B.A.(Hons.), M.A., Ph.D., PIL Educated at St. Columba’s School, Delhi, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, U.K. and Havard University, U.S.A. He topped India at the school leaving Indian School Certicate exam and did BA Economics Hons, St Stephen’s College, and MA and PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. He also taught at St. John’s College, Cambridge and did a summer program, PIL, from Harvard, USA. He has lectured to student/faculty groups and general audiences at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Boston MIT and George Washington Universities, to NGOs and think tanks (like Heritage Foundation, International Council of World Affairs in Washington, DC, USA) and addressed several international conferences, including those at Paris and Pakistan. Abhishek Manu Singhvi was conferred honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Amity, Rajasthan and Jain Viswa Bharati Universities. Abhishek Manu Singhvi is visiting Trumbull Lecturer at Yale University, USA in 2011.

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE A.K. SIKRI Arjan Kumar Sikri (born 7 March 1954) is an eminent jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on 12 April 2013. Earlier, he had served as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired as senior most puisne judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 March 2019. Presently, he is an International Judge, at the Singapore International Commercial Court, [SICC] Singapore Supreme Court, he was sworn in to the post on the 2nd of August 2019, by the President of Singapore. He is also the Chairperson of News Broadcasting Standards Authority. Sikri has an excellent academic record. He stood third in the merit list in Higher Secondary from CBSE, Delhi. He completed his B.Com. (Hons.) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi in 1974. He completed his LL.B. from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 1977 and won a gold medal for attaining rst position in LL.B. in Delhi University. He completed his LLM from Delhi University and stood rst in the three-year course. Sikri was appointed as Judge of the High Court of Delhi in July, 1999 and has also served as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court from 10 October 2011 before being elevated as the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court in September 2012.[3][4] in 2013 he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India. PROFESSOR SITAL KALANTRY Professor Sital Kalantry is the Clinical Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School. Professor Sital Kalantry writes in the elds of comparative feminist legal theory, international human rights, and empirical studies of courts. Her scholarship seeks to identify how legal norms aimed at promoting human rights sometimes undermine gender and racial equality when they migrate across national borders. Informed by a decade of human rights practice in international and domestic courts, she uses interdisciplinary methods to understand what mechanisms best promote state compliance with international human rights. She also studies why judicial institutions, particularly in India, fail to effectively provide justice using empirical methodologies. In her book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration, she examines how regulations on migrant women are inuenced by acontextual and limited knowledge about laws and practices in migrant-sending countries. She has argued for the need for a new transnational feminist approach drawing on comparative, empirical, and other methodologies. Her works have appeared in the Stanford Journal of International Law, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Cornell Journal of Public Policy, UCLA Journal of Law and Foreign Affairs, Human Rights Quarterly, the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, and a number of other peer-reviewed journals and university presses. Her opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times, Slate, the New York Daily News, and in other publications. She received a Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar grant to conduct research on the Indian Supreme Court as well as several other awards and grants for her work. She is a regular media commentator on reproductive rights, human rights, surrogacy, and immigration. She serves as referee for a human rights journal and an academic press. She is on the editorial board of the Jindal Global Law Review and the Maharashtra National University Law Review.

PROFESSOR (DR.) C. RAJ KUMAR Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, a Rhodes Scholar was appointed as the Founding Vice Chancellor of O. P. Jindal Global University in India at the age of 34. Professor Kumar also serves as the Director of the International Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building (IIHEd) and Dean of Jindal Global Law School. Professor Kumar has academic qualications from the University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Hong Kong, University of Delhi and Loyola College. He obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree at the University of Oxford, UK. He was a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School, USA, where he obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree and a James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar at the Harvard University. He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science (S.J.D.) by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, India. Professor Kumar's areas of specialisation, include, human rights and development, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, comparative constitutional law and higher education. He has over one hundred and seventy ve publications to his credit including seven books and has published widely in journals and law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, UK and the USA.

PROFESSOR DIPIKA JAIN Prof. Dipika Jain is currently a Professor of Law, Vice Dean (Research) and the Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology (C.H.L.E.T.) at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India. She pursued her B.A. in Political Science (Hons) from Lady Shri Ram College and LL. B from Faculty of Law, Delhi University. She received the Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellowship Award in Health Law & Policy, 2006 to pursue a Master’s Degree at Dalhousie University, Canada. She earned her LL.M from Harvard Law School. At JGLS, she is the recipient of several teaching excellence and research excellence awards since 2009. Jain’s research is at the intersection of Law and Marginalization. She writes on Gender and Sexuality, Postcolonial Feminism, Public Health Law, Transgender Law, Minor Jurisprudence, Critical Legal Theory, Constitution and Social Movements, Reproductive Justice, Legal Education and Pedagogies and Empirical Legal Studies. Her research was recently cited by the Supreme Court in the landmark decision of Navtej Johar v. Union of India (2018). In 2018, she was designated as the rst Research Professor at JGLS. CORNELL LAW SCHOOL Cornell Law School's mission remains that articulated by Cornell President Andrew Dickson White upon the founding of the law school 120 years ago: "Our aim is to keep its instruction strong, its standard high, and so to produce … a fair number of well- trained, large-minded, morally based lawyers in the best sense." Cornell Law School offers a 3-year J.D. program for 200 students per class, a one-year LL.M. program for about 90 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (J.S.D.) program for about 2-3 new students per year. The Cornell Law School faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and inuence. The faculty has pre-eminence in many areas, including quantitative and qualitative empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core elds. Our commitment is to continue to be recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.

CORNELL INDIA LAW CENTER The Cornell India Law Center is dedicated to promoting the study of Indian law and policy in the U.S. legal academy. Based in the Cornell Law School, the Center hosts distinguished speakers and conferences of legal scholars and lawyers from India and the United States. Through our visiting scholars program, legal scholars from India are invited to spend a few weeks at Cornell Law School conducting research and interacting with our faculty. To build legal capacity, Cornell Law faculty regularly teach at a newly established university outside of New Delhi. Cornell Law School has developed an innovative fast-track dual degree program with Jindal Global Law School where students are able to complete both an Indian law degree and American law degree in two years less time than it would take otherwise. We seek to promote engagement with India among future lawyers. Students enrolled in the International Human Rights Clinic travel to India to conduct research on human rights projects. Cornell Law School funds a summer internship for a Cornell Law student to work at a public interest organization in India.

O.P. JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) is a non-profit global university established by the Government of Haryana and recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC). JGU was established as a philanthropic initiative of its Founding Chancellor, Mr. Naveen Jindal in memory of his father, Mr. O.P. Jindal. JGU is one of the few universities in Asia that maintains a 1:9 faculty- student ratio and appoints faculty members from India and different parts of the world with outstanding academic qualifications and experience. JGU is a research intensive university, which is deeply committed to its core institutional values of interdisciplinary and innovative pedagogy; pluralism and rigorous scholarship; and globalism and international engagement. JGU has established eight schools: Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), Jindal Global Business School (JGBS); Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA); Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP); Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities (JSLH); Jindal School of Journalism & Communication (JSJC); Jindal School of Art & Architecture (JSAA) and Jindal School of Banking & Finance (JSBF). JGU has been granted with "Autonomy" by the University Grants Commission and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, for receiving the “A” Grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). This makes JGU the only private university in the state of Haryana and one of the only two private universities in India to be given the status of autonomy. JGU has made history by breaking into the QS World University Rankings 2020. We are also the only Indian private university in the top 150 'young' universities in the world (under 50 years of age) in the QS Young University Rankings 2020. JGU is the youngest University in the world to feature in both these rankings. In September 2019, JGU was selected as an 'Institution of Eminence' (IOE) by the Government of India, making JGU one of only eight private universities in India to be awarded this status.

JINDAL GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL In 2009, JGU began its first academic session with the establishment of India's first global law school, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). JGLS is recognised by the Bar Council of India and offers a three-year LL.B. programme, five-year B.A.LL.B. (Hons) and B.B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) programmes, three-year B.A. Legal Studies (Hons.) programmes and a one-year LLM programme and a Ph.D. programme in Law. JGLS has over 3000 law students and over 325 full time law professors. JGLS has research interests in a variety of key policy areas, including: Comparative and International Taxation; Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy; Women Law, and Social Change; Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies; Human Rights Studies; International Trade and Economic Laws; Global Governance and Policy; Health Law, Ethics, and Technology; Intellectual Property Rights Studies; Public Law and Jurisprudence; Environment and Climate Change Studies; South Asian Legal Studies, International Legal Studies, Psychology and Victimology Studies and Clinical Legal Programmes.