Overview
- Contains contributions related to public and constitutional law, administrative law, and private law
- Discusses forest protection, defamation law, child marriage laws
- Comprises of comparative study of universalism and Asian exceptionalism
Part of the book series: The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law (IYCL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Public Law: Constitutional Law
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Front Matter
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Private Law: General Themes
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Front Matter
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Administrative Law
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Keywords
About this book
The yearbook intends to seamlessly tie together discussions on both public and private law aspects of comparative law. It encourages readers to gain a nuanced understanding of the working of the law, legal systems and legal cultures while aiding deliberations on the constituents of an ideal system of law.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Vishwas Devaiah, Professor at JGLS, serves as the Director of the Centre for Postgraduate Law School and Executive Director of CIPTEL. Additionally, he is the Co-director of JIRICO, driving its research and development. He has been the Managing Editor of Jindal Global Law Review. His research interests lie in intellectualproperty law, the overlap between IP and competition, health law, and biotechnology law. A published author in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Journal of World Intellectual Property, Asian Bioethics Review etc., he also won the 2015 Microsoft IP Teaching Fellowship.
Dr Pritam Baruah is the Professor & Dean of BML Munjal Law School. His research revolves around legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Formerly a faculty at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (WBNUJS), he has guest lectured at several universities globally. He co-founded UCL Legal Philosophy Forum and has published in international and Indian journals such as the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and the NUJS Law Review and edited volumes such as the Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law (IYCL). Besides academia, he practised law at the Supreme Court of India. Dr Baruah holds a law and humanities degree from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, andis a Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar at University College London.
Dr Moiz Tundawala, Associate Professor at JGLS, pursued his doctoral studies at LSE, Master's at SOAS and BALLB (Hons) at WBNUJS Kolkata on prestigious academic scholarships. Dr Tundawala has taught and researched at various institutions including JGLS, LSE, WBNUJS and NLU Delhi, specialising in Indian constitutional thought, legal and political theory, modern intellectual history, and comparative public law. His works have been published or are forthcoming in renowned journals such as Global Intellectual History, Journal of Political Theology, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, IYCL, NUJS Law Review, and other edited volumes.
Dr Niraj Kumar works as an Associate Professor at NLUD, where he co-directs a project exploring the nature of the Indian Legal System at the Centre for Comparative Law. Earlier, he taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He coordinated a Ministry of Home Affairs project and was part of an Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry of Labour & Employment. He has published widely, including two books, and co-edited IYCL 2018. His research areas include comparative law, administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, interpretation of statutes, and jurisprudence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2020
Editors: Mathew John, Vishwas H. Devaiah, Pritam Baruah, Moiz Tundawala, Niraj Kumar
Series Title: The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5467-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5466-7Published: 03 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5469-8Due: 19 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5467-4Published: 02 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7042
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7050
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 291
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Environmental Law