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Prof. K.N.Chandrasekharan Pillai is Director of the Indian Law Institute.  After B.Sc. from the Kerala University, he did LL.B. and LL.M. from Delhi University securing first rank in the LL.M.  Later, he did his LL.M. and S.J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, USA.  He practiced law for a while before joining the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University.  He joined the Cochin University and continued to be the Director, School of Legal Studies.  He was Director – designate of the National Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Cochin.  Currently he is the Editor of the Journal Section of Supreme Court Cases, Lucknow and Journal of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.  He is also on the Editorial Board of the Cochin University Law Review, Academy Law Review, Kerala Bar Council News, and Bangalore Law Journal.  He has written extensively on different topics in law.  Dr. Pillai is author of several books.


Dr. S. Sivakumar
is Research Professor.  His doctoral work is on Law and Media.  He has published many articles in reputed national and international research journals and presented papers in national and international conferences.  His projects on “Criminal Justice Administration in Chhattisgarh” and “Criminal Justice Administration in Kerala have been published.  Dr. Sivakumar has visited many Universities and Institutions abroad.  

 


Mr. Thomas Paul
is Associate Research Professor.  He did his Master’s degree in Law from Nagpur University and Diploma in Labour Law from the Indian Law Institute.  He is the Co-editor of the Annual Survey of Indian Law and the Journal of the Indian Law Institute for many years.  He also contributes regularly to these publications.  He is currently working on “Laws relating to Child Labour”.

 


Dr. Furqan Ahmad
is Associate Research Professor.  He did his M.A. (Sociology) from Lucknow University, LL.M. from AMU Aligarh, and Ph.D. from Rohil Khand University, Bareilly (U.P.).  He is author of a book  “Triple Talaq”.  He has also contributed about forty articles including book reviews particularly on Muslim Law and Environmental Law in national and international journals.  He was associated with National Law Institute University, Bhopal as Visiting Professor of Environmental Law for a tri-semester.

 


Ms. Jyoti Dogra Sood
is working as an Assistant Research Professor.  She is a gold medallist and did her LL.B. and LL.M. from Himachal Pradesh University.  Her area of specialization is Criminal Law and Environmental Law.  She is presently the Assistant Editor of the Journal of the Indian Law Institute.

 


Dr. S.S. Jaswal,
Assistant Research Professor is interested in Constitutional Law.  His doctoral thesis is on Reservation Policy on Scheduled Castes: A Socio-Legal Study.  He has to his credit two books on “Child Labour and the Law” and “Reservation Policy and the Law”.  He has written on a wide range of subjects in leading law journals.

 


Ms. Versha Vahini, Assistant Research Professor has done LL.M. from NLSIU, Bangalore and is currently pursuing Ph.D. from Indian Law Institute.  She has taught at the premier law institutes such as National Institute of Law, Faridabad; National University of Juridical Sciences, West Bengal; National Law Institute University, Bhopal.  She has attended four weeks training programmes on “Law Teaching and Research Skills” in September 2003 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.  She is handling the online course on “Intellectual Property Rights and Information Technology in Internet Age”.  Her area of specialization is Corporate Law.

 


Ms. Lisa P. Lukose
, Assistant Research Professor is B.A. (English), LL.B. (University of Pune) and LL.M. School of Indian Legal Thought SILT from  M.G. University.  She has secured First Rank with Gold Medal in LL.B.  Her subject of specialization is Intellectual Property Laws.  She has written articles in journals and books and presented papers on Intellectual Property Laws in a number of regional and national seminars.

 


Ms. Jaya V.S.
is Assistant Research Professor.  She did her LL.B. from Kerala University and LL.M. from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin securing First Rank with Gold Medal.  As part of her internship at Indian Council of Arbitration, New Delhi, she did extensive research work on a project titled “International Commercial Arbitration in the Indian Context”.  She has also written an Article on “Competency and Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunal: Stat”.  She is the co-editor of the Book titled, “Disaster Management Law” published by the Indian Law Institute.

 


Mr. Vishnu Konoorayar K., Assistant Research Professor secured his B.A.(L), LL.B. from Mangalore University and LL.M. from CUSAT with specialization in Human Rights Laws and Commercial Laws.  His LL.M. dissertation was on Cyber Law.  Before joining ILI he was working as a Lecturer in School of Legal Studies, Kannur University and WB NUJS, Kolkata.  He is the co-editor of the book titled “Disaster Management Law”. His areas of interest are Natural Resources Law, WTO Studies and Agricultural Laws.

 


Mr. P. Puneeth,
Assistant Research Professor has done his B.A.L., LL.B. (five year) and LL.M. from Bangalore University, Karnataka.  His subject of specialization is Constitutional Law and Legal Order.  Earlier he had worked as a Lecturer at Dr. RML College of Law, Bangalore.  His area of interest is Constitutional Law.

Ms. Arya A. Kumar, Assistant Research Professor, did her B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from Mahatama Gandhi University, Kerala and LL.M. from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin with specilisation in Human Rights Laws and Consumer Laws. Earlier she had worked as a lecturer at National Law Institute University, Bhopal. She has published an article titled "Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act" in Cochin University Law Review (CLUR, Dec. 2005).


Mr. Dalip Kumar is Registrar of the Institute.  He did his B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc. (Chemistry) from Hans Raj College, Master of Engineering with distinction from Delhi College of Engineering and LL.B. from University of Delhi.  He has more than 25 years of experience in academics and educational administration.  Some of the important posts held by him are: Deputy Registrar, Guru Gobind Singh University, Deputy Director, Directorate of Training and Technical Education, Government of NCT Delhi; Administrative Officer, DIHMC, Ministry of Tourism and Project Coordinator of the World Bank assisted Technician Education Project.  He was deputed by Government of NCT Delhi for three months Training Course on Environmental Pollution Control in the Technical University Halifax, Canada.