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The
Indian Law Institute [ILI] – set up on 27th December, 1956 is an
International Centre for advanced socio-legal research and has done significant
work in the field of legal research, education and training.
It has made notable contribution in the legal arena. Besides performing important advisory role in fostering the empirical
research and making law as an instrument of social engineering, it undertakes
research on current legal issues.
The Institute is an autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration
Act XXI of 1860 No. S. 1049 of 1956-57.
Introduction
The Indian Law Institute was formally inaugurated by the
first President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad on December 12, 1957 at the
Central Hall of Parliament, New Delhi in the presence of the first Prime
Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.R. Das, the then
Chief Justice of India and late Dr. K.M. Munshi the then Executive Chairman of
the Institute and Prof. L.R. Siva Subramanian the then Dean, Law Faculty of
Delhi University.
Pt. Nehru welcomed the formation of the
Institute as necessary and important and said that he would take the liberty to
pay tribute and homage to the law and the men of the law and further remarked
that he had no doubt that the Institute would perform an essential task in the
development of a welfare state.
Aims & Objective
The prime objective of the ILI is to
cultivate and promote the science of law and to contribute substantially in
reforming the administration of justice, so as to meet the socio-economic
aspirations and needs of the people through law and its instrumentalities. The
Institute has achieved the place of a premier center of national &
international legal research and studies, in which the lawyers from all
branches of the profession, judges, government officials and academicians have
been participating.
The broad objectives of the Indian Law
Institute are:
to cultivate the science of law, and to promote
advanced studies and research in law and its administration;
to promote the reform of administration of
justice and of law and its health/development suitable to the social, economic
and other
needs of the people;
to promote the
clarification, simplification and systematization of law;
to encourage and conduct
investigations in legal and allied fields;
to promote the diffusion of
the knowledge of law and its administration and principles on which they are
based;
to promote the improvement
of legal education, and to impart instruction in law and allied fields;
to publish studies,
treatises, books, periodicals, reports and other literature relating to law and
allied fields;
to undertake documentation
of important legal and allied materials;
to institute and maintain
libraries;
to cooperate with other
societies, institutions and organizations, national and international, in the
pursuit of all or any of the above
objects;
to constitute or cause to be constituted
regional offices at convenient centers in India to promote the activities of
the Institute.
Office Bearers
Indian
Law Institute is headed by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India as its Ex-officio
President. The Union Minister of
Law & Justice and Attorney General of India are its Ex-officio Vice
Presidents. A third Vice President
is elected by the members of the Governing Council. The
Attorney General of India, Union Ministers of Home & Human Resource
Development,
some Judges of the Supreme Court & some High Courts, Solicitor General of India, Chairmen, Law Commission & University Grants
Commission and other prominent lawyers and law professors etc. are the members
of the Governing Council.
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President
Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.H. Kapadia,
Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi
Vice Presidents
- Mr. Salman Khurshid,
Hon'ble Union Minister for Law & Justice, Government of India
- Mr. G.E. Vahanvati,
Attorney General for India, Government of India
- Mr. Rakesh Munjal,
Sr. Advocate
Treasurer
Hon'ble Mr. Justice Swatanter
Kumar, Judge, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi
Director-cum-ex-officio-Secretary
Prof. S. Sivakumar ,
Director Incharge, Indian Law Institute, New Delhi
Members
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Mr. P. Chidambaram, Hon'ble Union Minister for Home
Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi
- Mr. Kapil Sibbal
, Hon’ble Union Minister
for Human Resource Development, Government of India, New
Delhi
- Hon'ble
Mr. Justice Altmas Kabir, Judge, Supreme Court of India
- Mr. Rohinton F. Nariman, Solicitor General of India,
New Delhi
- Chairman, Law Commission
of India, ILI Building, Bhagwan Dass Road, New Delhi
- Prof. R.P. Anand,
President, Indian Society of International Law, Bhagwan Dass Road, New Delhi
- Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat,
Chairman, University Grants Commission, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi
- Prof. Balraj Chauhan, Vice
Chancellor, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
- Dr. R. Venkata Rao, Vice Chancellor, National Law
School of India University, Bangalore
- Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dilip Babasaheb
Bhosale, Judge, High Court
of Judicature at Bombay, Mumbai
- Hon’ble Dr. Justice Vineet
Kothari, Judge, Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur
- Hon'ble Dr. Justice A.H. Saikia,
Chief Justice, Sikkim High Court, Sikkim
- Hon'ble Mr. Justice V.V.S. Rao,
Judge, A.P. High Court, Hyderabad
- Hon'ble
Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana, Judge, High Court of Andhra
Pradesh, Hyderabad
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Prof. (Dr.) Nisha Dube, Dean, Faculty of
Law, Barkatullah University, Bhopal
- Prof. S.N.
Singh, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi ,
Delhi (Superannuated)
- Prof. Satish Shastri, Dean, Faculty
of Juridical Sciences, Modi Institute of Technology & Science,
Lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan
- Dr. Subhash Chandra Gupta,
Dean, Faculty of Law, H.N.B. Garhwal University Campus, Pauri
Garhwal, Uttrakhand
- Prof. Narayan Madhukar
Rajadhyaksha, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of
Bombay, Mumbai
- Ms. Priya
Hingorani, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, New
Delhi
- Dr. Janak Raj Jai, Advocate
- Mr. G. Masilamani, Sr.
Advocate
- Mr. Amarjit Singh Chandhiok, Sr. Advocate and Addl. Solicitor General of
India
- Mr. Beant Singh Bedi,
District & Sessions Judge (Retd.), Chandigarh
- Prof. (Dr.) Ashwani Kumar Bansal,
Professor of Law, University of Delhi
- Mr. Sushil Kumar Jain, Advocate
- Prof. (Dr.) A. Subrahmanyam, Professor of Law,
Deptt. of Law, College of Law, Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam
- Prof. (Dr.) A. Lakshminath, Vice Chancellor, Chanakya
National Law University, Patna
- Hon’ble Mr.
Justice A.K. Sikri, Judge, High Court of
Delhi, New Delhi
- Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.M. Ahmadi
, Former Chief Justice of India
- Hon'ble Dr. Justice Arijit Pasayat
, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
- Mr. T.R. Andhyarujina
, Sr. Advocate
- Dr. S.S. Jaswal
, President, ILIEWA, New Delhi
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