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      Centre for Transnational Commercial Law (CTCL)

      STATEMENT OF AIMS

      The Central mission of advancing the body of knowledge of transnational commercial law in India is achieved through a number of objectives:

      • To be a national leader in private and government transnational commercial law research and teaching.
      • To be a centre of excellence in private and government transnational commercial law reform advice and policy evaluation.
      • To provide consultative services to Government, Institutions and Organizations, dedicated towards development of Transnational Commercial Law and Practice.
      • Publication of books, journal, magazine, newsletter etc on Transnational Comparative Commercial Law.
      • To design and conduct courses – Certificate, Diploma and PG on Transnational Comparative Commercial Law and Practice.
      • To be a national forum for academics, practitioners and regulators working in private and government commercial law.
      • To conduct seminars/conferences, workshops, debates/discussions, clinics, trainings, etc on Transnational Commercial Law.
      • To liaise with institutions, professionals, NGOs, governments, Public Authorities for conducting research and undertaking projects regarding Transnational Commercial Law.
      • Any other assignment related to promotion of academic discourse on and practice in Transnational Commercial Law.
      • To actively engage in deliberations involving the Unification and Harmonization of International Private Laws along with the UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, The Hague Conference and similar institutions & organizations.

      Composition

      Chairman & Chief Patron
      Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, NLU Delhi

      Executive Director
      Prof. (Dr.) Risham Garg, Professor of Law & Registrar, NLU Delhi

      Mentor & Patron
      Prof.(Dr.) Ruhi Paul, Professor of Law, NLU Delhi

      Deputy Director (Research)
      Dr. Nidhi Gupta, Associate Professor of Law, NLU Delhi

      Deputy Director (Executive)
      Dr. Raghav Pandey, Assistant Professor of Law, NLU Delhi

      Advisory Committee

      Professor Dr. Herbert Kronke
      Director, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law, Heidelberg, Germany

      Professor Dr. Symeon C. Symeonides,
      Dean Emeritus and Alex L. Parks Distinguished Chair in Law, Willamette University College of Law, Salem, Oregon, USA

      Professor Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer
      Chair Professor of Private Laws, University of Basel, Switzerland

      Professor Dr. Michael G. Bridge FBA
      Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics

      Professor Dr. Bruno Zeller
      Professor of Transnational Commercial Law, University of Western Australia.

      Professor Dr. Stefan Vogenauer
      Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Former Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford.

      Professor Dr. Upendra Baxi
      Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK
      Distinguished Professor, NLU Delhi, Former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University

      Professor Dr. Mahendra P. Singh
      Chair Professor of Comparative Laws, NLU Delhi
      Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, Former Vice-Chancellor, NUJS
      Former Dean, Faculty of Law, Delhi University

      Dr. T. K. Viswanathan
      Advisor to the President of India, Chairman BLRC,
      Former Secretary General Lok Sabha, Former Member of Law Commission of India

      Professor Anil K. Rai – Professor, NLU Delhi

      Professor M.S. Sahoo – Distinguished Professor, NLU Delhi

      Professor Charles Scott Pryor – Professor of Law, Campbell Law School, USA

      Professor Rebecca Parry – Professor of Law, Nottingham Trent University, UK

      RESEARCH STAFF

      NameDesignationE-mail ID
      Prof. (Dr.) Risham GargExecutive Director
      Ms. K. Nidhi MohanTeaching Assistant
      Ms. Neelam SinghAssociate Editor, JEIP
      Student Committee members

      Tarun Agarwal
      Saumya Bhatt
      Aadya Chawla
      Rohan Dhariwal
      Shubham Gupta
      R. S. Lakshman
      Arpit Agarwal
      Tanaya Rajawade
      Ayush Singh
      Neeraj Nainani
      Ayushi Agrawal
      Pragya Dwivedi
      Nidhi Khandelwal
      Archita Srivastava
      Kartik Prasad
      Ashutosh Singh
      Mahim Dubey

      RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONSULTANCY

      MHRD GIAN Courses

      • Grant of US Dollars 12,000/- from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India; MHRD GIAN Course on Comparative Contract Law & Practice, May 12-22, 2016; Invited Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Chair of Law Institutions of the Max Planck Society.
      • Grant of US Dollars 12,000/- from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India; MHRD GIAN Course on Cross-Border Business Law & Practice, October 10-23, 2016; Invited Professor Bruno Zeller, Professor of Transnational Commercial Law, University of Western Australia.

      Events

      Symposium & Conferences

      • 2016 UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day, in association with UNCITRAL RCAP, “Whether the Uniform Sales Law is Likely to Improve ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and ‘Enforcing Contracts’ in India?” 2016 UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day, at National Law University Delhi, 17-October-2016
      • Conference on ‘Bankruptcy & Cross-Border Insolvency Laws in India- the way forward’; 14th May 2016, National Law University Delhi
      • Talk on ‘India’s new Bankruptcy Law’, by a Panel comprising Mr. Sumat Batra Advocate, Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta of IGIDR, Mr. Pratik Datta of NIPFP, moderator Dr. Risham Garg. On 5th November 2016.
      • Submitted an opinion note to the Chairman, Bankruptcy Law Reforms Commission, on Cross-Border Insolvency Regime for India