NLSIU to conduct faculty seminars on Nov 2, Nov 7

NLSIU will be conducting faculty seminars on November 2 and November 7, 2022, read here to get the details.

National Law School of India University (NLSIU) is all set to conduct two faculty seminars on November 2 and November 7, 2022.

On November 2, it will conduct the faculty seminar - 'The Southern Turn Towards World Comparative Law'by Dr. Philipp Dann, Professor, Humboldt University (Faculty of Law), Berlin.

Prof. Philipp Dann received his law degrees from the state of Berlin (1. and 2. state examination), Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and Frankfurt University (PhD and postdoctoral habilitation). He has published three monographs and several edited volumes in the area of public international law, European Union law, and constitutional law theory. 

The contribution argues that comparative constitutional studies have only in a rather superficial way reflected the constitutional experiences in the Global South and imperial / colonial dimensions of constitutionalism globally. Doing that would provide a much better understanding of the complex varieties of constitutionalism around the globe, their respective limits, borderlines and entanglements. 

Pursuing such a broader understanding, however, demands a new awareness about the global encounter of North and South, about colonialism and its legacies in our comparative constitutional approaches and repertoires. This would start with a Southern turn, i.e. the attempt to theorize the diverse experiences in the South and to reflect its epistemological demands. It would continue by turning back North and to the entanglements between South and North. And it could ultimately result in a reconfigured comparative study of constitutionalism and a world comparative law, stated NLSIU's official statement.

On November 7, the faculty seminar is on “Collaborating in times of crisis: Challenges and strategies for international research” by Dr. Victor V. Ramraj, Professor, University of Victoria (Faculty of Law), British Columbia.

Professor Ramraj joined the University of Victoria as Professor of Law and CAPI Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations in 2014, after sixteen years at the National University of Singapore, where he twice served as the Faculty’s Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs. He holds five degrees from McGill University (B.A.), the University of Toronto (M.A., LL.B. & Ph.D.), and Queen’s University Belfast (LL.M.). He has edited/co-edited several books published by Cambridge University Press, including Emergencies and the Limits of Legality (2009) and Emergency Powers in Asia: Exploring the Limits of Legality (2010). 

This seminar will provide an overview of the state of international and interdisciplinary research collaboration. It will address the challenges for legal researchers and institutions arising from recent changes in legal academia, legal publishing (including open access issues), and the geopolitical environment (including the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the implications of rising US-China tensions). Dr. Ramraj will also offer some reflections on these challenges based on his own research projects, including his interdisciplinary edited collection, Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts (New York: Oxford University Press), his research on constraints on academic freedom in Asia, and his engagements with senior university administrators on national security guidelines for scientific research in Canada. This seminar would be of interest to graduate students, legal researchers, project leaders and coordinators, and anyone interested in legal and interdisciplinary research projects that cross international and interdisciplinary borders.

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