Prof. (Dr.) Risham Garg
Professor of Law
Executive Director, Center for Transnational Commercial Law (CTCL),
Centre for Incubation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE)
Director, NLU Delhi Foundation.
E-mail : [email protected]
Website: https://nludelhi.ac.in/faculty/dr-risham-garg/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarjee/
Professor (Dr.) Risham Garg holds a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), doctoral research degree, for his work on International Commercial Law and Arbitration. He is currently engaged in research and teaching courses of Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws Seminar, Regulatory Practicum: Insolvency, Securities, Competition Seminar; Transnational Dispute Resolution and Emerging Technologies Seminar, Technology and Entrepreneurship Policy, Legal Writing & Business Law Research Methods to the PhD research scholars.
He is continuing with the National Law University Delhi as a regular faculty member since 2009, initially joining as an Assistant Professor of Law, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015, and currently as Professor of Law since 2020. He has previously worked as a Lecturer at the Amity Law School, (IP University Delhi) for over six years during 2002-2009. He has been invited as a visiting faculty at the Delhi Judicial Academy (DJA), LBSNAA Mussoorie, Indian Law Institute, Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), IICA- PGIP, IIT, IIM, ICSI, IIIPI-ICAI, ICMA, NLU’s.
He has also acted as a course faculty at the Judicial colloquium for the NCLT members in 2018. He has also acted as a consultant to the Directorate of Legal Education of the Bar Council of India. He has recently been working closely with the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) by providing valuable consultancy support, and also towards the Continuing Professional Education for Insolvency Professionals. He has also participated in ToT Workshop on Insolvency and Bankruptcy conducted by IFC World Bank and IBBI. Since 2017, he has been spearheading the Arun Jaitley Insolvency & Bankruptcy Moot in collaboration with the IBBI, INSOL India, ILA.
Recent Consultancy and Policy engagements: nominee to the UNIDROIT by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Member of Insolvency Law Academy Taskforce on IBC & PMLA Study, member Confederation of India Industries (CII) Task Force on Ease of Doing Business, since 2023. In 2019, he served as the Academic Consultant to the British High Commission and CII Project on ‘Implementation of Cross-Border Insolvency and Individual Insolvency in India’.
TAUGHT COURSES
- Corporate Insolvency Law and Practice (Business Honours)
- Business Laws, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Clinic
- Law of Contracts
Seminars and LLM
- Transnational Dispute Resolution and Emerging Technologies
- Business Transactions, Regulatory Practicum
- Transnational Commercial Laws
PhD course work
- Research Experiences, Aspects of Legal Writing
Course Director of Continuous Education Courses:
- Diploma in Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Law, Practice, Regulations (DIB 1-year)
- Diploma in Business and Laws for Entrepreneurs and Startups (DBL 1-year)
Recent consultancy and research work:
- ‘Insolvencies of Crypto Exchanges: Legal Issues’, with Nottingham University, UK- as Research Collaborator from India.
- Cross-Border Insolvency Law in India: Are the Principles of Comity of Courts and Inherent Common Law Jurisdiction Relevant? Published in 2023 in Wiley’s INSOL International Insolvency Review.
- Professor of Law 2020 – Present
- Associate Dean 2024 – Present
- Executive Director, Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship 2025 – Present
- Executive Director, Centre for Transnational Commercial Law (CTCL) 2016 – Present
- Director, Centre for Regulatory Studies (CRS) 2022 – 23
- Associate Professor of Law 2015-2019
- Assistant Professor of Law 2009-2015
- National Law School of India University, Bengaluru 2023
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Legal Aspects of Business) 2022-23
- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (Legal Aspects of Business) 2020-22
- Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (Graduate Insolvency Programme) 2021-24
- National Law Institute University Bhopal (Graduate Insolvency Programme) 2023
- Delhi Judicial Academy (DJA) 2022
- Law Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) 2021
- Indian Institute of Management Rohtak 2022
- Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) 2023- 2024
- Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of India (IIIPI) 2017- 2024
- Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) 2017- 2024
- Insolvency Professional Agency of ICSI (IPA- ICSI) 2017- 2024
- Insolvency Professional Agency of Institute of Cost Accountants of India 2017- 2024
- Delhi Skills and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU) 2020-21
- National Law University Odisha
- Indian Society of International Law (ISIL)
- Indian Law Institute 2005-07
- Lecturer in Law 2002-2009
- Director, NLU Delhi Foundation – 2024- Present
- Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Laws and Policy (JELP) – 2022- Present
- Faculty Advisor, NLUD Transnational Commercial Law Review (TCLR) – 2022- Present
- Diploma in Business and Law for Entrepreneurs and Startups 2024- Present
- Diploma in Corporate Insolvency: Law, Practice and Regulations 2022- Present
- Knowledge Consultant to the Ministry of External Affairs, Legal & Treaties Division, Govt. of India. 2024-25
- International Financial Services Authority of India (IFSCAI) 2023
- Confederation of India Industries (CII) Task Force on Ease of Doing Business 2023- Present
- Indian Steel Association 2023
- Bar Council of India 2024
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) 2016- 2022
- Bar Council of India- Directorate of Legal Education 2012
- Lawyer, Litigation in Commercial matters, Trademark, Arbitration 1998-2001
- Business Manager 1993-1995
- Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, nominee to the UNIDROIT 2023-25
- Member of Insolvency Law Academy Taskforce on IBC & PMLA Study 2025
- Member of Journal Advisory Board of the IPA of Institute of Cost Accountants 2024-26
- SIPI Taskforce on Best-Practices for Insolvency Professionals 2016-17
- Visiting Research Scholar at UNCITRAL, Vienna, Austria 2007
- Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, Austria.
- Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Hong Kong
- Coach Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration, Vienna, Austria.
- Comparative Insolvency and Bankruptcy, co-taught by Prof. Rebecca Parry, Professor of Law at Nottingham Trent University, with Prof. Risham Garg 2023 Feb-March
- International Business Transaction, co-taught by Prof. Don Scott DeAmicis, Professor Georgetown Law, with Dr. Risham Garg September 2017
- Comparative Contract Law and Practice, Co-Taught by Prof. Stefan Vogenauer, Chair of Max Planck Law, and Dr. Risham Garg May 2016
- Cross-Border Business Laws and Practice, co-taught by Prof. Bruno Zeller, University of Western Australia, and Dr. Risham Garg October 2016
- Arun Jaitley International Insolvency and Bankruptcy Moot (Annual) in collaboration with UNCITRAL RCAP, IBBI, INSOL India, ILA 2017- Present
- UNCITRAL Asia-Pacific Day 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022
- Comparative Private International Law- short course by Prof. Symeon Symeonides 2017
- Corporate Insolvency: Training of Trainers Programme 2018
Assignments
RESEARCH GRANTS & PROJECTS
- Collaborative Research Mobility & Workshop on Transnational Dispute Resolution by Heidelberg University, Heidelberg institute for comparative law, conflict of laws and international business law, Germany. – 2025
- ‘Insolvencies of Crypto Exchanges: Legal Issues’, AHRC UK Network Grant to Nottingham Trent University, UK- as Research Collaborator from India – 2023-24
- Australian High Commission and Victoria University Project Grant on AI, Trade and Policy- As Project Collaborator ICSSR Research Grant, ‘Black Money Act’. – 2023-24
- IIIPI Research Grant ‘Insolvency of Real Estate Companies’ – 2023-24
- SPARC Scheme Research Collaboration: MHRD IIT Kharagpur ‘Legal Education Reforms in India and China’ as Co-Director – 2018-2020
- ‘Implementation of Cross-Border Insolvency and Individual Insolvency in India’, British High Commission and CII Project- as Academic Consultant – 2019
- GIAN Ministry of Education Grants for International Innovative collaborative courses – 2016, 2017, 2018
- Cross-Border Business Law & Practice – 2022
- Comparative Contract Law and Practice
- International Business Transactions
- Transnational Commercial Law
- Comparative Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law and Practice
- NLUD Research Grant – 2016-2017
Qualifications
- Doctor of Laws, (LL.D.), doctoral research degree, on International Commercial Law and Arbitration, UN CISG Convention – 2013
- LLM – 2002
- LLB – 1998
Publications
- Cross-Border Insolvency Law in India: Are the Principles of Comity of Courts and Inherent Common Law Jurisdiction Relevant? By Andrew Godwin, Risham Garg, Debaranjan Goswami; INSOL International Insolvency Review, 1–25 – 2023
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/iir.1500 - An Effective Approach towards Cross-Border Transaction Avoidance: Comparative Perspectives, by Rebecca Parry and Risham Garg; pgs 323-333; IBC: Evolution, Learnings and Innovation, published by Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, 2023. ISBN: 978-81-947537-5-9 – 2023
- Differential Treatment Among Creditors Under India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016: Issues and Solutions, Charles Scott Pryor and Risham Garg, The American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Volume 94 Issue 1 Winter 2020 – 2020
- Business Law and Practice- The Relevance of Ancient India Legal Philosophy in current times- Dr. Risham Garg; in, Reflections on Ancient Indian Jurisprudence in the current Social & Judicial Set-Up, edited by Prof. Anupama Goel & Dr. Seema Singh. 2021 Mohan Law House. ISBN: 978-93-87264-14-4 – 2021
- Issues in Corporate Group Insolvencies, 2019 NLUD Law Journal, Sage; 6(1) – 2019
- ‘Uniform Commercial Laws and Ease of Doing Business in India’. Co-editors: Bruno Zeller, Don Scott De-Amicis, Risham Garg; ISBN: 978-93-84272-10-4 – 2017
- Issues in Drafting and Enforcing International Commercial Contracts in India: An Empirical Analysis – 2017
- Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law in India- A welcome move towards a Unified Law – 2017
- Towards an Effective Cross-border Insolvency Regime in India- A Case for Ratification of CISG by India – 2017
- World Bank Ease of Doing Business Report and India Business Environment-Dr. Risham Garg, Amrita Singh, Prakhar Ganguly – 2017
- Maritime Dispute Resolution- Dr. Risham Garg, Amrita Singh – 2017
- The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980) -Indian Approach, “Bridge- Policy, Planning & Governance”, Edited by Dr. K. M. Tripathi – 2015
- Environmental Ethics: The Changing Dimensions in India; Law and Society, Edited by Dr. Pallavi Gupta. Regal Publications Delhi. – 2015
- Role of Judiciary and Nation Building in India, Judiciary & Nation Building. Edited by Dr. K.M. Tripathi. Universal Law Publishing. 978-93-5035-446-9. – 2014Selected Other Publications
- Covid-19 and its impact on Commercial Contracts wrt UNIDROIT Principles (CTCL Research Paper) – 2021
- Role of Directors in Cross-Border Insolvency, ICAI Journal – 2018
- “Enforcing Cross-border Mediation Settlement Agreements”, Maadhyam Law – 2018
Areas of Interest
- Digital Assets, Law & Technology, Legal Tech, AI, Entrepreneurship, Startups
Awards
Received the NLUD UTKARSH Award for excellence in teaching and research, in 2023.