Faculty
The faculty members include former judge of the Supreme Court of India Justice Ruma Pal, who was the Ford Foundation Professor of Human Rights. The former governor of Mizoram and CBI director, Dr. A.P. Mukherjee taught criminal law here. There is an IPR chair headed by Shamnad Basheer who is a well-known name in the field of intellectual property and this is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development. The faculty includes Oxonians, a Rhodes scholar, a Commonwealth Scholar, a Fulbright scholar, a Felix Scholar and three Chevening Scholars.
Teachers in NUJS have attended Western universities like Columbia University, University of Oxford, Vanderbilt University, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of Nottingham, University of Essex amongst others. Lecturers educated in India are alumni of institutions such as NLSIU, NALSAR University of Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University and, in a recent trend, NUJS itself. NUJS faculty has published in journals like European Intellectual Property Review, International Journal of Biotechnology, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Yale Journal of Law and Technology among others.
In addition to lectures by permanent faculty members, the university organises lectures and interactive seminars attended by jurists, lawyers and academicians from India and abroad. NUJS has four major annual lectures: K.C. Basu Endowment Lecture (Law & Economics), Durga Das Basu Memorial Lecture (Constitutional law), Ford Foundation Lecture (Human Rights) and Convocation Address. Visitors who have delivered other lectures include Lord Robin Auld, Sir Igor Judge, Justice Zakaria Yacoob from the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, Professor Upendranath Baxi, Ram Jethmalani, Indira Jaising, Vandana Shiva, Bibek Debroy, Jayati Ghosh, Helmut Goerlich, David Nimmer and Manoranjan Mohanty.
Professors from Kolkata's other institutions visit the campus and take classes. Professors from institutions such as the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, the Indian Statistical Institute, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Presidency College, Kolkata, St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and Jadavpur University often visit NUJS.
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