Symposium Alert: XIV Annual NLSIR-Samvād Partners Symposium on Strategising a Healthcare Framework for India: Headways, Dilemmas, and the Way Forward

 [Announcement of NLSIR Symposium as received from NLSIR is posted below]

About NLSIR

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU). For over 30 years now, NLSIR has constantly sought to encourage legal scholarship on issues of relevance to legal practitioners. In 2009, we became the first Indian student-run journal to be cited by the Supreme Court of India in its decision in Action Committee, Unaided Private Schools v. Director of Education. Notably, we have also been cited recently in the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment, Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India, which established the Right to Privacy in India.

About the Symposium

In furtherance of our mandate to encourage legal scholarship and push the boundaries of law and policy, we are organising the XIV Annual NLSIR-Samvād Partners Symposium on Strategising a Healthcare Framework for India: Headways, Dilemmas, and the Way Forward. The Symposium will be held virtually on May 9, 2021 and is completely free to attend. The Symposium is divided into three sessions, the outlines of which are available in the attached Concept Note. Each panel will be followed by a Q&A session, where attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the panellists.

 This year, Justice Ravindra Bhat, Supreme Court of India, will be delivering the Inaugural Address and Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, WHO, will be delivering the Introductory Address to the Symposium.

Sessions

 

Session I is titled 'Assessing India's Clinical Trial Rules: Developments and Some Festering Concerns for the Healthcare System'. In this session, we seek to engage in a discussion on India's clinical trial regime and its particular complications with regard to scientific and traditional medicines. 

 

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Murali Neelakantan - Principal Lawyer, Amicus and former Global General Counsel, Cipla Limited

The panellists for Session I are:

1.     Mr. Milind Antani - Lead, Pharma, Life Science, and Healthcare Practice, Nishith Desai Associates

2.     Prof. Padmavati Manchikanti - Professor, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property, IIT Kharagpur

3.     Mr. Dinesh Thakur - Public Health Activist and Expert in Pharmaceutical, Biomedical Product Development, and Drug Regulation

4.     Ms. Nivedita Saksena - Digital Health Policy Fellow, India Digital Health Network

Session II, titled 'The Ecosystem of Healthcare: Patent and Trade', will consider two competing interests - incentives for research and development on the one hand, and accessibility of vital drugs on the other hand - and their implications amidst the Covid-19 crisis. 

 Keynote Speaker: Justice Prabha Sridevan - Retired Judge, Madras High Court and Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal from 2011 to 2013

The panellists for Session II are:

1.     Prof. Jayashree Watal - Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University and Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division of the WTO from 2001 to 2019

2.     Mr. Rohan K George - Partner, Samvād: Partners

3.     Prof. Padmashree Gehl-Sampath - Fellow and Senior Advisor of the Global Access in Action Program at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University

4.     Mr. Prashant Reddy - Lawyer and Expert on Intellectual Property Law and Drug Regulations

5.     Ms. Neha Srivastava - Partner Designate, Remfry & Sagar

Session III is titled 'The Law and Model Framework to Provide Universal Right to Health and Healthcare Infrastructure'. In this session, we will explore the existing public healthcare system in India, its varied actors and stakeholders, and endeavour to conceptualise a universal right to healthcare in India. 

 Keynote Speaker: Mr. Anand Grover - Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

The panellists for this session are:

1.     Prof. S.V. Joga Rao - Visiting Professor, NLSIU and Healthcare Consultant at Legalexcel

2.     Ms. Arkaja Singh - Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

3.     Mr. Akshat Agarwal - Senior Resident Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

4.     Mr. Varun Jhaveri - Officer on Special Duty at the National Health Authority, Government of India

Registration

Please use the following link to register for the Symposium: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsouhY1bifv355PKzNzNGkqmKyoTiVAmAs-379bcJC7yrEEg/viewform. Since slots are limited, we urge you to register as soon as possible. We hope to see you at the Symposium and would love to have you engage with the discussions on this pertinent theme.

Please feel free to contact the undersigned in case you have any queries. You can also mail us at nlsir@nls.ac.in.

Regards,

Viraj Ananth (+91 81979 98480) and Kashish Makkar (+91 96369 41027),

Editors-in-Chief, National Law School of India Review '20-'21

NLS Symposiums on Reservations

XIII NLSIR-Samvād: Partners Symposium on Unpacking Reservations in India: Theory, Practice, and Beyond [December 8, Bangalore]: Registrations open now!

The National Law School of India Review is proud to announce that the XIII NLSIR-Samvād: Partners Symposium is going to be held on December 8, 2019 at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The theme for this year’s symposium is ‘Unpacking Reservations in India: Theory, Practice, and Beyond’. We thank Samvād: Partners and Lexygen for their continued support in the organisation of this event.

India’s experiment with affirmative action, in the form of quota-based reservation policies, has often been faced with questions revolving around equality, non-discrimination, and dignity. The Indian Constitution affirmatively enshrines preferences to disadvantaged groups like women, children and marginalized castes, and since its inception, reservations have been the dominant framework for operationalizing these preferences. While the reservation policies have not been free of contestation, they have survived and expanded their reach over the years, and are now entrenched in Indian constitutional law and politics. However, debates over India’s reservation model of affirmative action have now again come to the forefront of the sites of constitutional contestation - given the recent introduction of the Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019, the rising instances of demands for quota by politically powerful communities, and the use of reservations for domicile-based protections, among other things.

The XIII NLSIR-Samvād: Partners Symposium seeks to address some critical gaps in this conversation and generate a platform for structured discussion on this pertinent theme.

The Symposium is divided into three Sessions. In Session I, titled ‘Reservations: Rethinking Roots in Constitutionalism’, we seek to achieve a re-imagination of the constitutional understandings of substantive equality, dignity and opportunity, informed by recent political and jurisprudential thought. Session II, titled ‘Mapping the Reservations Landscape: Policies and Precedents’, would use the normative constitutional framework constructed in Session I to assess the recent practice of reservations in India - both by the legislature and the judiciary. Lastly, Session III, titled ‘Deepening and Widening Affirmative Justice: The Way Forward’, seeks to initiate a policy discussion on the possible routes that could take affirmative action in India forward, from the place it is in, at this point in Indian constitutional politics.

Brief outlines of the three sessions are available in the Concept Note.

Speakers

We have the following speakers lined up for the three sessions:

Session I: Reservations: Rethinking Roots in Constitutionalism

·         Dr. Anand Teltumdbe, Professor, Goa Institute of Management, and civil rights activist

·         Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, and co-founder, Centre for Law & Policy Research

·         Prof. N. Sukumar, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

Session II: Mapping the Reservations Landscape: Policies and Precedents

·         Mr. D. Shyam Babu, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

·         Dr. Anup Surendranath, Executive Director, Project 39A, and Professor, National Law University, Delhi

·         Ms. Kiruba Munusamy, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Session III: Deepening and Widening Affirmative Justice: The Way Forward

·         Dr. Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (New Delhi), and former Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University

·         Dr. Ajay Gudavarthy, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

·         Ms. Jayna Kothari, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, and co-founder, Centre for Law & Policy Research

Please go through the Symposium Brochure to know more about the Speakers.

Fee

Two kinds of participant packages are available:

i.        with accommodation: Rs. 1,000 per student/ Rs. 1,500 per professional/practitioner/academician

ii.      without accommodation: Rs. 600 per student/ Rs. 1,000 per professional/practitioner/academician

Both the packages include: confirmed participant slot at the Symposium, lunch, high tea (afternoon), dinner, certificate of participation (contingent on attending all three sessions), and a complimentary copy of the NLSIR.

Further, we can arrange for accommodation for only limited number of people. Thus, the requests for accommodation would be entertained on first-come-first-serve basis. We will try our best to accommodate participants even after the accommodation slots are full. However, additional charge may be required for the same.

Registration

Please register by filling this mandatory Registration Form. We hope to see you all there!

Contact

For further information, please contact Ms. Hrishika Jain (Editor-in-Chief): +91-9620242313; Ms. Niharika Sharma (Deputy Editor-in-Chief): +91-9468965073 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com with the subject – “Query: NLSIR Symposium”.

NLSIR-Samvād Partners Symposium: on 'The Sovereign Rights Dichotomy: Exploring Migration, Refugees and Citizenship'

See the below invite from NLSIR for a symposium:

Invite for XII NLSIR-Samvād: Partners Symposium

As we live through the “century of people on the move”, several States are grappling with the challenges posed by large-scale movement of persons. Migrants moving for better opportunities, and refugees fleeing violence and persecution, are often viewed as threats to the national security of their country of destination. As a response, those who emphasize on the need for protection of human rights push for the political, social, and economic integration of these people, and the eventual grant of full membership as citizens. While this is essential, the sovereignty-rights discourse often overlooks the opportunities for economic development that are created due to these large-scale movements. The XII NLSIR Symposium attempts to discuss these challenges and opportunities in the context of India. Its legal framework governing migrants, refugees, and citizenship has become the subject of much debate in light of the changing political and legal landscape. A discussion on these issues is therefore relevant and the need to explore a viable way forward for India is indeed a pressing one. 

This Symposium is divided into three sessions. The first session places India’s migration policy in the larger context of the international legal framework governing migration. The second session seeks to highlight the position of refugees in India and explore the interplay between India’s constitutional guarantees and the obligations under international law for protection of refugees. The final session seeks to shed light on citizenship and social, political, and economic integration of persons within India. The questions here shall be viewed in the context of the ongoing National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam and the pending Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, both of which pose crucial constitutional questions. 

We have following speakers lined up for the three sessions:

Session I: India’s Migration Policy: Institutionalized Stigma? 

Mr. Gurucharan Gollerkeri, Director, Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore. 


Ms. Hamsa Vijayaraghavan, Legal Director, Migration and Asylum Project. 


Ms. Madhurima Dhanuka, Coordinator, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. 


Ms. Seeta Sharma, Technical Officer, EU-India CAMM Project, International Labour 
Organisation 


Session II: On Shifting Sands: India’s Refugees And The Way Forward 

Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Senior Advocate, Former Union Minister of Law and Justice. 


Mr.. Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (NUJS)



Dr. Srinivas Burra, Associate Professor, South Asian University (SAU) 


Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Advocate in Mohammad Salimullah v. Union of India 


Ms. Roshni Shanker, Founder, Migration and Asylum Project 


Ms. Cheryl D’souza, Advocate in Mohammad Salimullah v. Union of India 


Session III: Courting Issues of Citizenship 

Mr. Alok Prasanna Kumar, Senior Resident Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. 


Mr. Arijit Sen, Program Manager, Amnesty International India. 


Ms. Leah Verghese, Senior Campaigner & Researcher, Amnesty International India. 


Mr. Derek O’Brien, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha*

Dr. Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group*


The cost of participation will be Rs. 1000 per head which includes accommodation on 8th and 9th night, the delegate fee for the conference, and all meals during the conference. If delegates do not require accommodation, then the cost is Rs. 600 for the delegate fee for the conference and the meals during the conference. Further, we can only accommodate limited people on campus. Thus, the requests for accommodation for every delegation would be entertained on first-come-first-serve basis. We will provide individual certificates to students and a delegation certificate signifying that your esteemed university participated in the conference. 

This is also a mandatory registration form for all interested students - https://goo.gl/forms/SjyG0kWlUpMmAQz92. This form must be filled by December 1, 2018, failing which the students will not be able to attend the event.

For further information, please contact Mr. Sharan A. Bhavnani (Editor-in-Chief): +91-9686338767; Ms. Nikita Garg (Deputy Editor-in-Chief): +91-9945767507 or email us at nlsir@nls.ac.in with the subject – “Query: NLSIR Symposium”.

Symposium Alert: 10th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Regulating E-Commerce in India

Symposium Announcement:

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR), the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the 10th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Regulating E-Commerce in India scheduled to be held on 26-27 November, 2016 at the International Training Centre, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. 

The E-commerce sector in India has seen tremendous growth in recent years. However, the legal environment has imposed one of the biggest challenges to the growth of the sector, with the development of law seldom keeping pace with business innovation. The Symposium puts these issues in the spotlight with four sessions discussing various aspects such as foreign investment, taxation, and liability.

Confirmed speakers for the Symposium include Mr. Chetan Nagendra, Partner, AZB Partners, Ms. Ashwini Vittalchar, Partner, Samvaad, Mr. Mahesh Murthy, Founder, Pinstorm, Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Partner, PLR Chambers, Mr. Samsuddha Majumder, Partner, Trilegal, Mr. ​Rajesh Simhan, Partner, Nishith Desai, Mr. Promod Jain, Tax-Director, Flipakrt, Ms. Nisha Uberoi, Partner, AZB Partners, Mr. Manas Chaudhary, Partner, Khaitan & Co., Mr. Ramji Srinivasan, Senior Advocate, Mr. Yaman Verma, Senior Associate, Shardul Amarchand​, Prof. Rahul Singh,​ ​NLSIU, Bangalore, Mr. Pranav Mehra, Snapdeal and Ms. Pratibha M. Singh, Senior Advocate, and more are yet to confirm.

This year, the discussions will be divided into four panels:

Session I: Business Models and Regulation of Foreign Investment

(Forenoon, 26th November, 2016)

Session II: Indirect Taxation: Challenges and Concerns

(Afternoon, 26th November, 2016) 

Session III: Interplay between E-Commerce and Competition Law

(Forenoon, 27th November, 2016)

Session IV: Liability Regimes: Ensuring Compliance

(Afternoon, 27th November, 2016)

Registration charges are Rs. 500 for Students and Rs. 1000 for Professionals. To register for the event, please fill out this form - goo.gl/S5qkhm

For more details visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/nlsir/

For further information, please contact Akshat Agarwal (Chief Editor): +91-9731390988 ; Sharwari Pandit (Deputy Chief Editor) : +91-9619439861 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com

Symposium Alert: 9th Annual NLSIR Symposium 2015-16 – Goods and Services Tax: The Changing Face of Fiscal Federalism in India

Symposium Announcement from NLSIU is quoted as was sent (with a few formatting changes):

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR), the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the 9th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Goods and Services Tax: The Changing Face of Fiscal Federalism in India scheduled to be held on 14-15 May, 2016 at the International Training Centre, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. This year, the Symposium seeks to engage with the topical issue of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime that is proposed to be introduced by the Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014. Having been stalled for a significant period of time, the passing of the Bill is now imminent, and the far reaching changes that it makes to the indirect taxation regime in India make it a ripe topic for detailed critical examination. Given the novelty of many of the proposed changes, the Symposium seeks to promote an informed discussion among various stakeholders regarding the impact and legal implications of such changes. 

Confirmed speakers for the Symposium include Mr. Arbind Modi (Joint Secretary, Tax Policy and Legislation, Ministry of Finance), Dr. M. Govinda Rao (Member, Fourteenth Finance Commission), Mr. N. Venkataraman (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India), Mr. Upendra Gupta (Additional Commissioner Member, CBEC (GST Cell)), Mr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (Faculty, Azim Premji University), Mr. Alok Prasanna Kumar (Senior Resident Fellow (Vidhi Center for Legal Policy). Ms. Jayashree Parthasarathy (Partner, BMR & Associates LLP), Mr. Karthik Sundaram (Associate Partner, Economics Law Practice), Mr. Madhukar N. Hiregange, C.A., (Partner, Hiregange & Associates, Bangalore), Mr. TR Venkateswaran (Indirect Tax Director, PwC) and Mr. B. Sriram, Partner (Tax and Regulatory Practice, E&Y) among others. 

This year, the discussions will be divided into four panels:

Session I: Constitutional Challenges and Concerns
(Forenoon, May 14, 2016, Saturday)

Session II: Understanding the Dual GST System
(Afternoon, May 14, 2016, Saturday)

Session III: Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST)
(Forenoon, May 15, 2016, Sunday)

Session IV: Procedural Hurdles and Concerns in Implementing GST
(Afternoon, May 15, 2016, Sunday)

Registration fee for the Symposium is Rs. 500 for professionals and Rs. 250 for students. The payment has to be made at the venue. All those interested are requested to register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1flQ1Zv86UPCAjLOlmYglY5WK_iDhj6DR3r7kPxMKqXU/viewform

For more details visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/997877953621577/

For further information, please contact Ashwini Vaidialingam (Chief Editor): +91-9663370310; Kaustav Saha (Deputy Chief Editor): +91-9916707621 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com.

Call for Students Paper for NLSIR Symposium

Call for Student Papers from NLSIR Symposium:

Call for Student Papers: The 8th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Competition Law

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. For more than 25 years, it has been at the forefront of legal scholarship on issues relevant to legal practitioners. As part of its increasing mandate this year, in association with Amarchand Mangaldas, it is organizing the 8^th edition of its Annual Symposium on Competition Law. The Symposium seeks to engage with legal issues that have arisen in the decade-long competition law regime, especially over the past two years, and thus hopes to fill the lacunae in current analysis.

Towards this end, the NLSIR is pleased to call for Student Papers for the 8^th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Competition Law. The students whose papers are selected will also get a chance to present them at the Symposium which is scheduled to be held on the 2-3^rd of May, 2015 in Bangalore. The selected papers will also be published as part of Vol. 27(2) of our journal which will be a special issue on competition law.

The paper may be submitted on any one of the following themes:-

Session I: Section 3 and Determining Anti-Competitive Agreements 

Session II: The Abusive Conduct of Dominant Enterprises

Session III: Mergers and Acquisitions: Clearing the CCI Hurdle and the Competition between Regulators

Session IV: The Interface of Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law in India

For more details please refer to our concept note, attached herewith.  

The papers should be a minimum of 3500 words, inclusive of footnotes. They are preferred in Times New Roman font, double-spaced. Main text should be in font size 12 and footnotes in font size 10. All submissions must be word processed, and compatible with Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007. The NLSIR uses only footnotes (and not end-notes) as a method of citation. Submissions must conform to the Bluebook (19th edn.) system of citation.

The papers must be emailed to mail.nlsir@gmail.com indicating the session for which the paper is intended under the subject heading. All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter containing the name of the author, educational qualification and year of study, the title of the manuscript, and contact information. The last date for submissions is April 17, 2015.  The Editorial Board looks forward to reading your submissions.

Symposium Alert: VII NLSIR Symposium 2013-14: Bridging the Security-Liberty Divide

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) - the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the VIIth NLSIR Symposium on “Bridging the Security-Liberty Divide” scheduled to be held on December 21 and December 22, 2013 at the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC, opposite NLSIU Campus, Nagarhavi) Conference Hall, Bangalore. The decade following September 11 has been dubbed “liberty’s lost decade”, not just for the United States of America but for the world at large, marked by increasing tension between State interests in national security and individual liberty. As we continue to grapple with the implications of this clash, one clear winner seems to be emerging, best observed by examining changes in legal systems throughout this decade. The recent upsurge of criticism against NSA activity globally, however, could be seen as indicative of a changing trend. The VIIth NLSIR Symposium seeks to trace this dialogue between competing notions of security and liberty, and hopes to assess and analyse similar developments in India. 

Confirmed speakers for the symposium include Hon’ble Justice Muralidhar, Menaka Guruswamy, Mrinal Satish, Bharat Karnad, Aparna Chandra, Chinmayi Arun, Shyam Divan, Bhairav Acharya, Roshni, Yug Mohit Chaudhary and Saikat Datta.

This year, the discussions will be divided into four panels:

Session I: Securing Liberty from the State - Redefining Thresholds for Offences

(Forenoon, December 21, 2013, Saturday)

Session II: Intrusive Intelligence - Surveillance Programs and Privacy in India 

(Afternoon, December 21, 2013, Saturday)

Session III: Beyond Borders - Extradition, Asylum and Concerns of State Security 

(Forenoon, December 22, 2013, Sunday)

Session IV: Security and Liberty in India - Redefining the Debate

(Afternoon, December 22, 2013, Sunday)

Registration fee for those who make an advance payment/bank transfer is Rs. 500 for students and Rs. 750 for others. All those interested are requested to register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19s9HkuoTRNBxKahu_pDSYbDb-6CCXvk6ZV4d1kkOW9s/viewform 

The registration fee for those who register at the venue is Rs. 750 for students and Rs. 1000 for others.

For more details visit our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/393805164084543/

Or visit our website http://nlsir.in/symposium.html

For further information, please contact Abhinav Sekhri (Chief Editor): +91- 9538003614; Mansi Sood (Deputy Chief Editor): +91- 9632745265 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com.

NLSIR Symposium: Mapping the Future of Commercial Arbitration in India

Symposium Announcement from NLSIR:

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) - the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the VIth NLSIR Symposium on “Mapping the Future of Commercial Arbitration in India” scheduled to be held on May 18 and 19, 2013 at the NLSIU campus. The last three years have witnessed dynamic shifts in the law and practice of Arbitration in India. While there have been steps in the right direction, an unwieldy system continues to weigh down practitioners. Four years after first delving into the nuances of commercial arbitration in India, the Symposium hopes to assess the development of Arbitration law over the last few years.

Confirmed speakers for the symposium include renowned legal luminaries such as Hon’ble Mr. Justice (Retd.) S U Kamdar (Former Justice, Bombay High Court), Mr. Anirudh Krishnan (Advocate, Madras High Court), Mr. Ashwin Shanker (Advocate, Bombay High Court) Mr. Aditya Sondhi (Advocate, Karnataka High Court), Mr. Ajay Thomas (Registrar, London Court of International Arbitration, India), Mr. Vivekananda N. (Head (South Asia) & Counsel, Singapore International Arbitration Centre), Mr. Nangavaram Rajah (Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre), Mr. Promod Nair (Partner, J Sagar Associates), Mr. Shreyas Jayasimha (Partner, AZB & Partners), amongst others.

This year, the discussions will be divided into four panels:

Session I: The Implications of BALCO on Arbitration Practice
(Forenoon, May 18, 2013, Saturday)

Session II: Revisiting the Expansive Role of the Indian Judiciary and its Implications (Afternoon, May 18, 2013, Saturday)

Session III: Determining the Governing Law of the Arbitration Agreement – Arsanovia and Beyond
(Forenoon, May 19, 2013, Sunday)

Session IV: The Way Forward: A Call for Institutional Arbitration?
(Afternoon, May 19, 2013, Sunday)

Registration fee for those who make an advance payment/bank transfer is Rs. 500 for students and Rs. 1000 for others. All those interested are requested to register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hXthITsHurIQBClJAkZkiKWdbjkXoKJ4MFRSI0VgGfU/viewform

The registration fee for those who register at the venue is Rs. 750 for students and Rs. 1250 for others.

For more details including the concept note and future updates please visit: http://www.nlsir.in/symposium.html.

For regular updates, also see our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/nlsir?fref=ts.

For further information, please contact Ashwita Ambast (Chief Editor): +91-9986478265; Sahil Kher (Deputy Chief Editor): +91-9739265715 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com.

NLSIR Symposium

The National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of National Law School of India University, Bangalore is pleased to present the second NLSIR Public Law Symposium to be held on 22 December, 2012 at the National Law School campus. Last year, the editorial board of NLSIR spearheaded the first edition of the Public Law Symposium on the "Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights by the Supreme Court of India" in an effort to initiate a systematic study of public law jurisprudence in India. The theme of the symposium this year is "Delimiting Media Freedoms: Discovering the 'Delicate Balance' Between Article 19 and Article 21", an issue which has seen significant legal developments in the recent past. For this project, we are collaborating with the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. The symposium shall field opinions from the judiciary, practising lawyers, the media and students, and will be attended by renowned luminaries including Justice Muralidhar (Delhi High Court), Geeta Seshu (The Hoot), Apar Gupta (Partner, Advani & Co.), amongst others.

The discussion will be divided into two sessions. In the first session (scheduled between 10.30 A.M.-12.30 P.M.) the panel will discuss the right to privacy and the problems posed by its uncertain ambit of protection under Article 21. Questions regarding the balance between the right to privacy and the media's purported objective to protect public interest as well as the standards of privacy enjoyable by public figures together with the development of procedural innovations globally will constitute an important part of the discussion. The second session (scheduled between 1.30 P.M.-3.30 P.M.) will focus on the controversial subject of 'trial by media' and the propriety of the judiciary governing the content of media reports through instruments such as the recently invoked 'doctrine of postponement'. Lunch and refreshments will be provided by the Organizing Committee.

The registration fee for the symposium is Rs. 200 for students and Rs. 500 for professionals. All those interested are requested to register their attendance at the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHN1M1ZJem1nVlgzaUxoX0NMYU9MaEE6MQ.

For any further details regarding the symposium, please contact Ashwita Ambast (Chief Editor, NLSIR) at +91-9986478265 or Sahil Kher (Deputy Chief Editor, NLSIR) at +91-9739265715 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com.

NLSIR Symposium on Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions

See below the NLSIR Symposium announcement on "Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions in India:
Recent Regulatory Changes".

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) - the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is pleased to announce the V NLSIR Symposium on "Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions in India: Recent Regulatory Changes" scheduled to be held on May 5 and 6, 2012 at the National Law School campus, Bangalore. Confirmed speakers for the symposium include renowned legal luminaries such as Hon’ble Mr. Justice V. Ramasubramanian (Judge, Madras High Court), Mr. Dhanendra Kumar (Former Chairman, Competition Commission of India), Mr. Uday Holla (Senior Counsel, Karnataka High Court), Mr. Nishith Desai (Nishith Desai Associates), Mr. V. Umakanth (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore), Mr. Sandip Bhagat, Mr. Rajat Sethi (Partners, SNR), Mr. Somasekhar Sundaresan (Partner, J Sagar Associates), Mr. Ajay Vohra (Managing Partner, Vaish Associates), and Mr. K. Swaminathan (Director - Direct Tax and Transfer Pricing Litigation, Delloitte Haskins and Sells), amongst others.

This year, the discussions will be divided into four panels: 

Session I: The Competition Regime Governing Transaction of Business in Combinations 

(Forenoon, May 5, 2012, Saturday)

Session II: Takeover Regulation in India: Liberalisation with Caution

(Afternoon, May 5, 2012, Saturday)

Session III: Cross-border Mergers and India’s Taxation Regime

(Forenoon, May 6, 2012, Sunday)

Session IV: Companies Bill, 2011: Indian Company Law at the Cross-roads

(Afternoon, May 6, 2012, Sunday)

Registration fee for the symposium is Rs. 500 for students and Rs. 1500 for others.

For more details including the concept note, program schedule and online registration, please visit:  http://www.nlsir.in/symposium.html.

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For further information, please contact Krishnaprasad K.V. (Chief Editor): +91-9916589670; Ashwita Ambast (Deputy Chief Editor):  +91-9986478265 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com.

Symposium Alert: NLSIR Public Law Symposium

The National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of National Law School of India University, Bangalore is pleased to present the first NLSIR Public Law Symposium to be held on 10 December, 2011 at the National Law School campus. The theme of the symposium is "Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights by the Indian Supreme Court", an issue which has seen significant legal developments in the recent past. The symposium will be attended by renowned legal luminaries including Justice Muralidhar, Mr. T. R. Andhyarujina, Mr. Shyam Diwan and Mr. Arun Kumar Thiruvengadam, amongst others.

The discussion will be divided into two sessions. In the first session (scheduled between 10.30 A.M.-12.30 P.M.) the panel will discuss the substantive adjudication of socio-economic rights undertaken by the Supreme Court concerning questions of the ever-widening ambit of Article 21 and the content of the new rights so evolved. The changing nature of the relationship between Part III and Part IV of the Constitution due to such expansion will form an important part of the session. The second session (scheduled between 1.30 P.M.-3.30 P.M.) will focus on the manner in which the Supreme Court has enforced these rights and consider the variety of procedural innovations employed for the same, including PILs and continuing mandamus.

The registration fee for the symposium is Rs. 500 for professionals. There is no registration fee for students. All those interested are requested to register their attendance at the following link: http://nlsir.in/symposium.html.

For any further details regarding the symposium, please contact Krishnaprasad K.V. (Chief Editor, NLSIR) at +91-9916589670 or Ashwita Ambast (Deputy Chief Editor, NLSIR) at +91-9986478265 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com.