Special Distinguished Lectures

In addition to the annual distinguished lectures, the Centre has also organised a number of special distinguished lectures:

1. Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid (Retd.), Former CJ Sindh High Court , Justice Pakistan SC and Dean Law College, Hamdard University on Challenges of Access to Justice in South Asia on 19 February, 2008.

2. Prof. Marc Galanter,  the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Everyday Justice in India on 16 January, 2008.

3. Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner, on RTI - A Step towards a Democratic Empowerment of Ordinary Citizens on 14 January, 2008.

4. Chief Justice of India, Justice K G Balakrishnan on Millennium Development Meet on   Legal Literacy & Access to Justice on 1st November, 2007.

5. Prof. Giorgio Agamben, Università IUAV di Venezia & Collège International de Philosophie Paris on What is a Dispositif? with Prof Upendra Baxi, University of Warwick, in the Chair on What is a 'dispositif'? on 16 January 2007.  

6. Prof Pranab Bardhan delivered a Special Distinguished Lecture on Democracy, Governance, and Economic Reform in India on 13 January 2006.

7. Prof Bob Jessop, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK spoke on Governance Failure, Meta-governance and the Need for Romantic Public Irony on 11 February 2005.

8. Prof John Keane, University of Westminster, UK, spoke on Cosmocracy: Reflections on Global Governance, February 27, 2004.

9. Dr. K. Kannabiran spoke on Law and the Question of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in December 2003 (organised in collaboration with the Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH), JNU).

10. Sir Rob Young, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom in India spoke on Good Governance in the UK, September 8, 2003.

Annual Distinguished Lecture