Weekly Seminars                                    Conferences/Seminars

The Centre has an active Weekly seminars series in which scholars from within the University and elsewhere are invited to present their ideas before the Centre’s faculty and invited participants. More than a hundred such seminars in the broad area of the Centre’s interests have been held until now.

Recent seminars organised under this series are:

Sundhya Pahuja, Co-Director, Law and Development Research Programme, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, New Delhi on Law as Regulation in the Global Economy – 13 April  2007.

Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi on Cows, Cars and Cycle-Rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets - 31 August 2007.

Dinesh Sharma, Journalist and Fellow, New India Foundation, New Delhi on India's Passage to IT Stardom: A Roller Coaster Ride – 14 September 2007.

Harish Damodaran, Hindu Business Line on Banias and Beyond: Case, Business and Industry in Modern India on 28 September 2007.

Jishnu Das, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank on Learning and Educational Attainment in Punjab, Pakistan: Thoughts for Debate and Discussion – 12 October 2007

Umesh C Jha, CSLG on Gender Discrimination in the Indian Armed Forces – 18 January 2008.

Tony Blackshield, Professor Emeritus, Macquarie University on  "Pith and Substance” in the Characterization of Statutes: A Comparative Study - 01 February 2008.

Vinay Gidwani, Department of Geography, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota on War Machine: Development, Hegemony, and Hindutva In Gujarat – 15  February 2008

Gail Pearson, Professor and Chair of Business Law, University of Sydney on Regulation and Citizenship through Financial Literacy – 29 February 2008.

David T. Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Hawaii on  The Next Frontier: National Development

Sabeena Gadhioke, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi on The Sensational and Irreverent of Blitz Popular photography in post independence India - 04 April 2008.

Orlanda Ruthven, Department of International Development, Oxford University on Government Inspectors and Ethical Buyers Regulating Labour in Moradabad’s Metalware Industry – 11 April 2008.

Jean-Louis Halperin, Professor of Law, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris on Comparing French and Indian Law - 25 April 2008.

Subir Sinha, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, Transnational Developmental Regimes and the Development of the Commons in India, 22 August, 2008.

Philippa Williams, PhD Student, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Cambridge, Negotiating Identity and Agency in a North Indian ‘Muslim Mohalla’, 5 September 2008.

C.V. Madhukar, Director, PRS Legislative Research, Parliament and MPs: Powerful or Powerless? 19 September 2008.

Srimati Basu, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Playing Off Courts: Negotiating Divorce and Violence In Courts, Police and Mediation Boards in Kolkata, 30 September, 2008. In collaboration with Womens’ Studies, JNU.

Rohan D’Souza, Assistant Professor, JNU, Flood Control and the Making of Modern India. 24 October 2008.

William Twining, Professor, University College London, Implications of “Globalisation” for Law as a Discipline.  12 November, 2008.

Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Senior Research Fellow, CSH and Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor, JNU, The Current Thinking on and  Practice of Participation in the French and Indian democracies. 14 November, 2008.