Prof. Dr. T.R. Subramanya is currently serving as the Dean of CMR University School of Legal Studies (wef 4-4-2018), Bengaluru after serving as Coordinator & Research Fellow at the Centre for Regulatory Studies, Governance and Public Policy (CRSGPP) in The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (2016-2018). Prior to this, he was the Vice Chancellor of Karnataka State Law University, Hubballi (2013-2015). He has also been the Professor of International Law at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences; Vice-Chancellor (in-charge), Bangalore University; Dean and Chairman of the Faculty of Law, Bangalore University (2008-2010); Registrar (Evaluation) (2010-2012) and Registrar (in-charge) Administration of Bangalore University (2009). In the international level, Prof. Subramanya has served as Legal Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for over 7 years. In this capacity, he acquired considerable knowledge of the laws and legal systems of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) States and in the practical application of international law at the municipal level. Prof. Subramanya has obtained M.Phil and Ph.D. Degree in International Law from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1993).

Ratna Kapur is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Legal Studies and Human Rights at Symbiosis Law School. She is also a Senior Faculty at the Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Professor Kapur writes and publishes on issues of feminist legal theory, postcolonial theory, human rights and international law. Her latest book is "Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl." She has also taught as a visiting professor in a large number of law schools around the world including Yale Law School, NYU School of Law, the UN Peace University, Melbourne School of Law, amongst others.

Ratna Kapur's co-authored classic and pathbreaking book Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India is now available online. The open access link to the the pdf version of the book available at: library - utorronto

Professor Ratna Kapur
Symbiosis School of Law, Pune
email: ratna.kapur@symlaw.ac.in

Professor Lakshmi Jambholkar taught in the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi with expertise in the field of Private International Law, for a period of 30 years. She served as Member,Law Commission of India and also as a Member of National Legal Services Authority of India.She has contributed extensively on Conflict of Law issues in reputed journals in India and abroad. She has also examined NRI issues concerning marriage , divorce and child custody. Also an extensive report on these issues has been submitted to the Government. She was Advisor for NRI issues to the National Commission for Women. She has delivered special lectures at various National Law University Schools all over India and has been honoured as Professor Emeritus at Jodhpur National Law University, Honorary Professor for Research at GNLU, and visiting professor for Symbiosis Law University. She has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Symbiosis Law University in 2017. She has long association with the Indian Society of International Law, being a member of the Governing Body and also member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of International Law. She was the Chief Editor of the ISIL Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law for five years.

Other areas of expertise, besides Conflicts of Laws, have been Public International Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), where she conducted more than 100 training workshops for Mediation & Conciliation in International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR).

She has authored a book on 'Select Essays on Private International Law', and also on 'International Commercial Arbitration: Private International Law ' . She is a regular contributor to the Annual Survey of Indian laws, published by Indian Law Institute, in Private International Law cases.

Anil Malhotra is a practising Advocate in India since September 1983. He attained Bachelor of Science (1980) and Bachelor of Laws (Professional) (1983) degrees from Panjab University, Chandigarh & an LLM degree from the University of London, London in 1985. He studied Comparative Family Law at London School of Economics besides Law & Society at School of Oriental & African Studies.

Well conversant with independently conducting civil, service, company, matrimonial and allied litigation at High Courts over India and Supreme Court. From 1986 to 1992, he taught civil procedural laws and matrimonial remedies for six years as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Laws, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Worked at High Court as Additional Central Government Standing Counsel from 1997 to 2000. Have represented substantial number of private clients for the past three decades by filing and defending independent petitions at the High Court and other Forums in matters relating to constitutional, civil, company, criminal, consumer and family disputes litigation. Has rendered substantial assistance as Amicus curiae with reported judgments on various issues of public law importance. Representing Government of Punjab probono, as counsel in defending vires of Punjab Travel Professionals Regulation Act, 2012, at the High Court since 2013.

For over 35 years, he continues to act as an Indian expert to render reports in foreign courts on appointment by the Bench in overseas jurisdictions. Conducts matters in Indian Courts pertaining to interpretation and application of foreign Court Orders regarding divorce decrees, child abduction, custody, maintenance, adoption, surrogacy and family related issues of Non-resident Indians (NRIs).

He has co-authored book titled Acting for Non-resident Indian Clients (Jordans 2005), India, NRIs and the Law (Universal 2009), Indians, NRIs and the Law (Universal 2011), Surrogacy in India: A law in the Making (Universal 2013), International Indians and the Law, (Universal 2014), Surrogacy in India – A law in the Making : Revisited (LexisNexis 2015), India, Inter Country Parental Child Removal and the Law (LexisNexis 2016) and The Removed Child and The Law in India (2018). He has significant published work and has both international and domestic conference participations. Has over 300 newspaper columns to his credit besides significant published work in journals.

As Chairperson, Task Force, Policy Procedures, Resolution and Grievances of NRIs, he has authored five reports for the Government of Punjab and has assisted in the enactment of The Punjab Compulsory Registration of Marriages Act, 2012 and Punjab Travel Professionals Regulation Act, 2012. He is an Advisor on NRI issues to the Government of Punjab & is a member of Nodal Cell for NRI Affairs in UT, Chandigarh. On January 29, 2007, he was elected to the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He is the Indian Representative of the Family Law Committee of International Law Association and has lectured at National Judicial Academy, Bhopal on 11 programmes and spoken at Chandigarh Judicial Academy. He has authored four publications on NRIs issues for the Government of Punjab.

Has conducted number of litigations on inter country parental child removal matters and has persistently proposed, debated and discussed need for India to sign the Hague Convention on Inter parental child abduction, 1980. As amicus curiae, his report on inter country parental child removal, forms part a Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment making a reference to the Law Commission of India, to recommend that India needs to consider signing the Convention. Handled litigation & campaigns for India to enact a law on surrogacy arrangements in India. Intends to persuasively pursue enactment of Indian legislation on these subjects.

On 25 April 2017, Co-opted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh as a Member of the Committee, constituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India to examine in detail the legal issues involved and give recommendations on resolving problems of parents and children involved in issues relating to inter parental / inter country child removal while examining the draft Protection of Children (Inter-Country Removal and Retention) Bill, 2016, whose report was submitted to Government of India on 21 April 2018.

Dr. Harish Shetty is a practicing Psychiatrist with a postgraduate degree in Psychological Medicine and a post graduate diploma in Comparative mythology from Bombay University. He finished his schooling at St Xavier’s High School [Vile Parle] .After finishing his Inter Science from Parle College [Vile Parle]he completed his MBBS, DPM and MD from T. N. Medical College and Seth G. S. Medical College respectively. Dr Shetty worked in the field of Yoga and Mental Health under the illustrious Professor Dr. N. S. Vahia for 12 years and also obtained rich experience in various areas of mental health work. He was appointed a consultant at the Sevadhan De-addiction center and the National Addiction Research Center [Govt. of India funded] in 1989. He served at both these centres till 2000. Dr. Harish Shetty has immense experience in School Mental Health and has conducted workshops for students, teachers, School Heads & the Non teaching staff for more than two decades. He is in an educational institution every week. He has aided in championing the rights of the children across all his life.

His petition with the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission to abolish the ‘Segregation‘ practiced in schools i.e. separating children by virtue of marks and dumping those who score less in a separate division in schools was accepted and the Segregation was abolished. A letter sent by to the CJ Bombay high court also was taken suo moto and Segregation abolished in schools (2006). His latest petition in 2015 in the BOMBAY HIGH COURT on Learning Disabilities has facilitated the starting of Learning Disability Detection Centers in every district of Maharashtra. This is an ongoing petition that aims at building systems for children with learning disabilities across the country. All the Boards are party to the same. Dr. Harish Shetty is working in the area of ‘suicide prevention’ and is actively working in schools and colleges. This activity is with students and teachers. His team has parents who have lost a child of suicide as resource person.

Dr Harish Shetty taught at TISS for a decade around 1990’s. He is a visiting faculty in various universities including the S.N.D.T Dr Shetty has immense experience in the field of Disaster and Mental health and has worked with the victims of the Marathwada Earthquake, Kandla cyclone and the riot affected in Gujarat. He also has been assisting victims of piracy involving Somalian pirates. He has extensively counseled the victims and their family members. Dr Shetty has also been identified as one of the 17 young mental health workers by the World Health Organization and invited twice for training in the years 1995 &1996 respectively. He has also founded “ Maitri” an organization that works with families affected by mental illness and has been instrumental in training a large number of medical personnel in the field of mental health. Dr Harish Shetty evolved and conducted a REFRESHER COURSE FOR SCHOOL COUNSELLORS’ with SNDT as a partner between 2000-2005. He was also invited by the SALZBURG SEMINAR in 2003 for an intensive seminar on LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH. Dr Shetty has several National and International Publications to his credit. Dr Shetty recently was on the panel of Indian people’s tribunal headed by a Retd high court judge investigating the rehabilitative processes in Gujarat. Dr Harish Shetty is also involved in the training of the Judiciary at the judicial officers training institute [J.O.T.I Nagpur] supported by UNICEF on mental health. Dr Shetty recently trains municipal school teachers continuously since two decades on mental health & education.

In 2003, he was in Afghanistan training the medical personnel in managing psychosocial consequences of disaster As a trainer and a researcher he has conducted hundreds of training sessions for different professionals in the country including the medical profession. Dr Harish Shetty has been training the Judiciary for more than two decades at J.O.T.I [Nagpur] and the Judicial Officers Training Centre at Uttan Mumbai for more than two decades. He is in the process of assisting Bombay High Court in setting up a Prelitigation Counseling centre for warring couples inside its premises. As a Psychiatrist he has been a member of committees appointed by the Bombay high Court overseeing the work of the M.D.C centers that houses mentally retarded children. He has been a star witness in the infamous Panvel and thane orphanage cases of child sexual abuse where convictions were granted to offenders. He has assisted the Bombay High Court in various mental health issues. Training peace activists working in communally sensitive areas in India has been an ongoing area of interest and activity. He has been a resource in more T.V & Radio always. He is the NATIONAL PRESIDENT of MY HOME INDIA an NGO that aims at integrating Rest of India to the North East.

Ranjit Malhotra enrolled with the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, India on 12 September 1990 and was the first Indian lawyer to be awarded the prestigious Felix Scholarship to read for the LLM Degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He obtained his Degree with merit in 1993, specialising in South Asian family laws and immigration laws. He is an India-based lawyer handling substantial international work. He is a member of the International Bar Association, for which he is also the Newsletter Editor of the Family Law Committee for a fifth term since January 2011, International Correspondent of the International Family Law journal published by Jordan Publishing, The United Kingdom and former co-chair of the Family Law and Family Law Rights Section of Lawasia. He is also a nominated life member of the Indian Society of International Law, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Reunite Child Abduction Agency, the Indian Council of Arbitration and is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Commonwealth Lawyers Association and International Law Association. He is also enrolled with the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates.

He also extensively advises foreign lawyers in the area of private international law, while acting on behalf of the non-resident Indian community, besides rendering expert testimony in foreign litigation, involving Indian laws.

He frequently travels abroad to attend international legal conferences. He has made presentations at six global immigration summits organised by the International Bar Association. He has co authored six books on areas of private international law, the most recent works titled “Surrogacy in India, A Law in The Making–Revisited,” and “India Inter Country Parental Child Removal and The Law,” published in 2016 by Lexis Nexis, India. He also has to his credit substantial internationally published work.

He was invited to participate in two exclusive Wilton Park conferences on migration matters in 2007 and 2009 and also to attend the International Family Justice Judicial Conference for Common Law and Commonwealth Jurisdictions held in Windsor, UK in 2009. He was awarded the Berger Memorial Scholarship for the AILA conference in San Diego, USA in 2011. Mr Malhotra was also invited as the only Indian speaker at the Annual Immigration Conference organised by the Law Council of Australia in March 2012. He was invited to lecture at the Harvard Law School on cross border child abduction issues on 15 April 2014.

He was the only Indian speaker at the stand alone ART conference organised American Bar Association Section of Family Law from 6-9 May 2015, at Carlsbad, California, USA, at the surrogacy symposium organised by the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers held in London from 17-19 May 2015 and at the surrogacy session of the International Bar Association annual conference held in Vienna, Austria, from 4-9 October 2015. He analysed the new 2015 CARA Guidelines and mechanics of inter country adoptions from India at the American Immigration Lawyers Association Bangkok District Chapter Conference held in Vietnam from 2-4 March 2016. He had made a presentation on the need for India to sign the Hague Convention on child abduction at the Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family conference organised by the IFLPP at the King’s College, London from 6-8 July 2016. He analysed the legal position on surrogacy and child removal issues in the cross border Indian perspective at the IAFL annual conference held in New Delhi from 13-18 September 2016. He also attended the International Academy of Fellow Lawyers Executive Committee meeting held in Hong Kong on 17 and 18 February 2017.

He has also been very recently been nominated to the Board of Governors of the International Academy of Family Lawyers at their annual meeting held in Reykjavik, Iceland held from 13-17 September 2017. He was one of the three special invitees invited at the Hague Experts’ Meeting on Issues of Domestic / Family Violence and the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention held at The University of Westminster, London on 12 June 2017. He has also been lecturing regularly on International family law issues primarily on international child removal / surrogacy at premier national law schools in India. He has also lectured at the National Judicial Academy at Bhopal.

Mr. Ranjit Malhotra, specialising in areas of private international law is a managing partner in his firm Malhotra & Malhotra Associates. The Firm has a broad-based practice with a reputation for offering a full range of quality personalised legal services. He has been actively and consistently engaged on the subject of managed migration and cross border international perspectives as also policy issues in the realm of international family law issues with major Embassies and Missions in New Delhi, India.

His firm Malhotra & Malhotra Associates is on the panel of lawyers for eleven major embassies in New Delhi, including the British High Commission, Australian High Commission, Canadian High Commission, New Zealand High Commission, American Embassy, German Embassy, Austrian Embassy, French Embassy, Spanish Embassy, Embassy of Luxembourg and Swedish Embassy at New Delhi.

He can be contacted at ranjitmalhotra1966@gmail.com

Shrinivasrao S. Sohoni is a Governance Specialist and Strategic Analyst. Educated at The Doon School, Dehradun, and St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, Mr Sohoni entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1970. His over 45 years aggregate governance experience at State, Union Government, and international levels, includes key assignments in the Government of India in the Department of Cabinet Affairs, Union Cabinet Secretariat, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Industry, Parliament, and in India’s neighbourhood.

During a period of endemic political turbulence in the country, and four changes of government at the Centre, Mr. Sohoni was Secretary to the President of India, and Secretary-General of the RajyaSabha, having previously served as Additional Secretary in the President’s Secretariat and of the RajyaSabha, and Secretary to the Governor of Maharashtra.

Through 2006 to 2014, Mr Sohoni served as Senior Adviser in the Office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, advising the Afghan President and mentoring the young Cabinet Secretary and senior officials in the President’s Secretariat on a range of governance issues including, especially, subjects germane to Afghanistan’s Constitutional, Political, and National Security perspectives.

A student of Comparative Religion, especially Islam, history of Islam, and connected trends and entities, Mr. Sohoni’s current focus is on the problem of Islamic Terrorism and Extremism, and the organization of State and Civil Society approaches for purposes of Counter-Terrorism/Extremism.

Professor Upendra Baxi, born at Rajkot, Saurashtra, graduated from Rajkot (Gujarat University), read law at the University of Bombay, and holds LLM degrees from that University and the University of California at Berkeley, which in 1973 also awarded him a Doctorate in Juristic Sciences.

He began his law teaching career in the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at Sydney Law School (1969-1973), and served as Professor of Law, University of Delhi (1973-1996.) He also served as the Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University (1990- 1994), as well as the Vice-Chancellor, University of South Gujarat, Surat (1982-1985), the Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute (1885-1988), and the President of the Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995.)

He was Professor of Law at the University of Delhi from 1973 to 1994 (and Professor Emeritus since 2010), and Professor of Law at the University of Warwick from 1994 (and an Emeritus since 2009). He is an honorary professor of the National Law School of India University (Bangalore); the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR, Hyderabad); the National Law University (Delhi), and the Gujarat National Law University (Gandhinagar). Professor Baxi has taught various courses in law and science, comparative constitutionalism, legal theory, and comparative social theory of human rights at the University of Sydney, Duke University, Washington College of Law, The American University; the Global Law Program at New York University Law School, and the University ofToronto.

He has been Director’s Guest Fellow at the Nantes University Institute of Advanced Studies, and a senior fellow of the Institute of Law as Culture at the University of Bonn.

Baxi has been a member of the editorial committee of many leading Indian and international law journals/reviews including: The Journal of the Indian Law Institute; The Journal of the Indian Society of International Law; Law & Society Review (USA); I-Con: the International Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law (USA); and The Common Law Review (UK.). He is currently on the editorial board of: the Human Rights Law Review (UK); SUR: International Journal of Human Rights (Brazil); Law in Context (Australia); Macquarie Law Review (Australia); Journal of International Law and International Relations (Canada); Human Rights & International Legal Discourse (Belgium); and The Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (UK.)

PUBLICATIONS

His leading publications (besides more than 250 articles in learned journals and edited books) include: The Indian Supreme Court and Politics (1980); The Crisis of the Indian Legal System (1982); Courage, Craft and Contention: The Indian Supreme Court in Mid-Eighties (1985); Towards a Sociology of Indian Law (1986); Liberty and Corruption: The Antulay Case and Beyond (1990);Marx,

Law, and Justice: Indian Perspectives (1993); Inhuman Wrongs and Human Rights

(1994); Mambrino’s Helmet?: Human Rights for a Changing World (1994) Mass Torts, Multinational Enterprise Liability and Private International Law (2000); The Future of Human Rights (2008, 3rd

edition; reprinted Perennial Book Series, 2013) and Human Rights in a Posthuman World: Critical Essays (2007.) As Tagore Law Professor, the University of Calcutta, Baxi delivered Tagore Law Lectures entitled Aspects of Justice: A Tale of Three Cities (forthcoming, 2015.)

He has edited, as well as co-edited, a number of volumes, including Justice K.K. Matthew on Democracy, Freedom and Equality (1979), Jeremy Bentham’s Theory of Legislation (1975); the Bhopal Case trilogy—Mass Disasters and Multinational Liability( 1986), Inconvenient Forum and Convenient Catastrophe (1986), and Valiant Victims and Lethal Litigation (1990) Law and Poverty: Critical Essays (1989); The Right to be Human (1988); Human Rights of the Subordinated Peoples (1994); Crisis and Change in Contemporary India (1995); Reconstructing the Republic

(1999); and A People’s Report on Human Rights Education (2006.)

Baxi has also contributed to The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Human Rights (2009); The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (2003); The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (2003); The Blackwell Companion to Postcolonial Studies (2000); The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (2012); The Routledge Handbook on Human Rights (2013); and The Oxford Handbook of Indian Constitutional Law(2015).

Many of his papers have been translated into Danish, Japanese, and Portuguese; his work on Marx is translated in Korean and The Future of Human Rights is currently being translated intoArabic.

He has delivered a large number of inaugural/keynote/memorial addresses in India and overseas. Among these are the Nehru and Ambedkar centenary addresses, memorial addresses for J.P. Naik and Malcolm Adiseshiah, and recent keynote /plenary addresses at the international conferences of the Law Society Association at Baltimore; the Critical Legal Studies Conference at Hyderabad; the Julius Stone Birth Centenary event at the University of Sydney; and the Emory Law School celebration of the sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (along with Shirin Ebadi and Jimmy Carter.)

Research

Professor Baxi has been noted for his pedagogic and research contributions at many institutions. His internationally acknowledged contributions lie in the areas of Third World and International Law theory and movement, sociological studies of human rights theory and practice, the relationship between technoscience formations and the law, transformative constitutionalism and adjudicatory policymaking, and critical studies of globalization of law. He has also contributed significantly to the renovation of law teaching and research in South Asia.

Baxi has initiated and promoted sociological research in Indian law through a variety of initiatives with the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the University Grants Commission. His contributions to pedagogic innovation are well recognized, especially the UGC Dharwad Workshop on the teaching of jurisprudence in India, the ICSSR workshops on law and social science theory and method, and various programmes of continuing legal education for the Bar and the Bench.

As a longstanding member of the Bar Council of India committee on legal education, Baxi bore the foundational burdens of envisaging the establishment of the National Law School University at Bangalore and was its director-designate for well over a decade. As Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute, Baxi endeavoured to reshape the research agenda, notably by focussing upon

equitable and efficient access to water as a resource and water-based resources, and environmental law and action. Baxi is joint editor with Oscar Vilhena (Brazil) and Frans Viljoen (South Africa) of a comparative study in the area of implementation of social and economic rights under conditions of globalization.

Policy Contributions

Baxi’s has been an early, and a strong, voice for judicial reforms and has assisted the Indian Law Commission’s Reports (under the leadership of Justice D.A. Desai) on management of arrears, judicial ‘manpower’ planning, and national programs and institutions of judicial training. He has also been a strong champion of the reform of the legal profession and has been the first to study empirically the wayward functioning of the disciplinary powers and processes of the Bar Council of India under the Advocate’s Act; and to address the costs of state/governmental lawyering as the Chair of a study-group of the National Expenditure Commission.

Baxi has made notable policy contributions in the context of what he calls ‘disorganized’ rather than ‘unorganized labour’ in his role as the Chair of a committee on law reform, the Government of India’s (first) National Commission for Unorganized Rural Labour, and as a member of the Second Gujarat Labour Law Review Committee.

He was the Chair of a Committee on Prisoners’ Rights and Duties, whose recommendations have been fully adopted by the Justice A.N. Mulla Committee on Indian Prison Reforms.

Recently, Baxi chaired a committee on Nyaya Panchayats, convened by the Ministry of Panchyati Raj, and proposed a Nyaya Panchayat Bill after extensive consultations with the Union Ministries and state governments.

Contribution to Social Action for Justice

Professor Baxi has endeavoured to combine human and social rights activism with an active law teaching and research career.

Associated as an expert with the United Nations Committee [now Commission] on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, he has been among the foremost academicians in India to highlight concerns for human rights in the administration of criminal justice. Baxi has worked with several national agencies concerned with police administration, research, and reform and has contributed to the concept of ‘atrocities’ in the Indian law. The Open Letter to the

Chief Justice of India which Baxi initiated (with Lotika Sarkar, Vasudha Dhagamwar, and Ragunath Kelkar) critiquing the Supreme Court decision in the Mathura Case has contributed considerably to a new responsive legal and constitutional culture, concerning violence against women. Notably, he has innovated social action litigation (miscalled as ‘public interest litigation’) before the Supreme Court of India.

Baxi has steadfastly pursued, in his action, research, and writing the tasks of promoting the right to development and access to justice for the impoverished. His study of Lokadalat at Rangpur (Gujarat) has had considerable impact on the democratization of access to justice in the state legal systems.

Some Esteem Indicators

Professor Baxi’s writings have been cited by Indian High Courts and the Indian Supreme Court as well as by appellate justices in South Asia. In one instance, the International Court of Justice cited his work as persuasive authority concerning state succession to treaties.

Professor Baxi has been awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the National Law School University of India, Bangalore and the University of La Trobe, Melbourne. The Indian Lawyers’ Association and the Indian Society of International Law, recently honoured him with a lifetime achievement award; the first award was alongside with Justice KrishnaIyer.

Two festschrifts (books of essays in his honour) have been recently published, and several books have been dedicated to him.

Professor William Twining has recently dealt extensively with Baxi’s thoughts and texts (along with those of Francis Deng, Yash Ghai, and Abdullahi-An-Naim) in a book entitled Human Rights: Southern Voices (Cambridge, 2009.)

For his contribution to legal and political affairs, he was awarded the third highest civic Honour – a Padmashri—by the President of India in 2011.

Professor Baxi was recently November 26, 2016) the recipient of an award for his contributions to constitutional law by the Chief Justice of India and his companion Justices, the Supreme Court of India.

Dr. S K Gupta is a Post Graduate in Commerce (Gold Medalist), FCS, FCMA, Ph.D. (Corporate Governance) with over 40 years of corporate experience in leadership positions with various public and private sector organizations in the domains of Finance, Costing, Internal Audit, Legal and Company Secretarial functions. He is currently CEO of Insolvency Professional Agency of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Dr. Gupta is a member of the Board(s) of companies as an Independent director. He is a Member of the Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, Corporate Affairs, and Banking and Finance Committee of the PHDCCI.He has chaired and addressed a large number of national and international seminars and conferences. Dr. Gupta is a prolific writer.He has written over 150 articles and research papers which are regularly published in various professional journals. He is currently guiding 5 Ph.D scholars. Dr. Gupta plays Flute. He has released an album of songs and bhajans played by him on Flute.

Ambassador K P Fabian served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1964 to 2000. As Counselor in Embassy of India Teheran from 1976 to 1979, he witnessed the 1979 Iranian Revolution. As Joint Secretary (Gulf) he was the coordinator for the 1990-91 evacuation of over 176.000 Indian nationals from Kuwait and Iraq, the biggest evacuation by air in history mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records.

International experience includes representing India at IAEA(International Atomic Energy Agency), UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), ICAO( International Civil Aviation Organization), FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), and WFP (World Food Programme).

Fabian has served as India’s Ambassador to Finland, Qatar, and Italy.

Post-retirement, Ambassador Fabian held the K. P. S. Menon Chair at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and was Visiting Professor at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Currently, Ambassador Fabian is Professor at Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi

Ambassador Fabian has published:

COMMONSENSE ON WAR ON IRAQ

INDIA IN THE 21 ST CENTURY

DIPLOMACY: INDIAN STYLE

Diplomacy: Indian Style

His book on THE ARAB SPRING THAT WAS AND WASN’T is about to be published.

His podcasts on current affairs are at http://www.ambassador- fabian.com/podcasts/