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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
Dr. Risham Garg, Associate Professor of Law, NLU Delhi

Mentor & Patron
Prof.(Dr.) Ruhi Paul, Registrar, 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

Name Designation E-mail ID
Dr. Risham Garg Executive Director  
Ms. K. Nidhi Mohan Teaching Assistant  
Ms. Neelam Singh Associate 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.

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