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VIVEK (VIK) KANWAR
Assistant Professor and Executive Director Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
I. EDUCATION
 
New York University School of Law,
 LL.M., General Legal Studies (2001) Distinctions and Activities: Graduate Editor,
NYU Review of Law and Social Change
; Highest grade in several courses: 3.7 GPA; Doctoral coursework: 4.0 GPA (ABD 2002)
 
Northeastern University School of Law,
 J.D. (2000) Distinctions and Activities: Denise Carty-Bennia Memorial Bar Award; Ella Baker Fellowship; Chair, Faculty-Student Reading Group; Research Assistant, Professors Martha Minow and Steve Subrin for textbook
Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice And Context
Full-Time Legal Externships: Center for Constitutional Rights; Brennan Center for Justice; Professor Anthony Paul Farley, Boston College
 
Law School
 
New College,
 B.A., Hon., Social and Critical Theory (1997)
II. CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT Jindal Global Law School (JGLS),
 O.P. Jindal Global University (National Capital Region of Delhi, India), Assistant Professor of Law, August 2009-Present
 
Courses Taught:
 Judicial Process
 (Fall 2012);
Public International Law 
 (Fall 2010, Fall 2011);
Comparative Constitutional Law 
 (Fall 2011);
Law and Social Theory: Normativity and Coercion
 (Spring 2012);
Legal Pluralism: Disputing Beyond the State
 (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012);
 Art Law and Cultural Property 
 (Spring 2013);
Rethinking Property: Fundamental Conceptions and Critical Comparisons
 (Spring 2013);
Global History 
 (Fall 2010);
International Relations
 (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012);
Legal English I & II 
 (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
 
Committees:
 (2009-2012) Member, JGLS Steering Committee for ABA Accreditation, Electives Committee, Course Allocation Committee, Library Committee, (From 2012) Member, Committee on Teaching, Curriculum, and Examination, Committee on Research and Knowledge Creation
III. CONCURRENT APPOINTMENTS Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (CPLJ),
 Executive Director, July 2012-Present; Previously Assistant Director (Academic Head) October 2009-June 2012
Responsibilities at CPLJ:
 
Founded and directed interdisciplinary research center at JGLS offering interdisciplinary expertise on questions of justice, integrity, corruption, accountability, and coercion.
 
Conducted research projects and supervised research of four full-time faculty members and numerous research associates. From 2012, coordinating research projects of seven full-time faculty members.
 
Established International Advisory Board of leading scholars in jurisprudence, public law, comparative law, and international law.
 
Established contacts and specific collaborations with the United Nations University, Griffith University, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Brown University, Harvard IGLP, Asian-African Legal Consultation Organization (AALCO), United Nations Development Program Asia-Pacific Centre (Bangkok, Thailand), and International Institute on Law and Society (Lima, Peru).
 
Published research reports and newsletters, and maintained social media presence.
 
Hosted numerous conferences, panels, public lectures, and colloquia.
 
 2
Research Projects at CPLJ:
 
“STRUCTURAL FAILURES AND DELAYS IN THE INDIAN COURTS.” Nat 
ional Seminar and
Published Report: “Justice without Delay.” Report inaugurated by Chief Justice of India and
provided to all members of Indian Parliament. (August 2009-October 2010)
 
"ADDRESSING DELAYS IN THE INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM: CHALLENGES FOR ENSURING ACCESS
TO JUSTICE”
 (Co-Director with Amit Bindal). Includes detailed empirical studies of case management systems and civil procedure in two Indian High Courts (Allahabad and Sikkim) and two Asian apex courts (Hong Kong and Singapore). (May 2012-present).
 
On
going colloquia and seminar series: “WHAT’S SO PUBLIC ABOUT PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW?” (2009); and “PUBLIC LAW VALUES IN PRIVATE LAW” (2012).
 
“LEGAL PLURALISM: NON
-
STATE JUSTICE SYSTEMS.” Developed Seminar, Colloquia, and
Textbook (August 2010- present)
 
Planned projects include 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JURISPRUDENCE (marking the Centennial of
Wesley Hohfeld’s
 1913 article
Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
; Ethics and Integrity Systems (with UNU and Griffith University).
Collaborative Project on Post-Coloniality and Culture,
Co-Convener, (2010-present)
 
“HUMAN RIGHTS: BEYOND THE LAW”: Major international conference over four days. Awarded
BIARI grant, Brown University, $20,000 (September 15-17, 2011).
 
“PUBLIC LAW/ PRIVATE GOVERNANCE.” International Seminar and Published Report: “Crafting
Governance: A Case Study in Private Codification from the Point of View of Inter-Public
Regulation.” Awarded grant by UNESCO, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne
(August 2011- present)
 
Ongoin
g colloquia and seminar series: “
VIOLENT MODERNITIES
 (2010-2011);
“RE
-VISITING
THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATE” (
April 2011);
“CRITICAL
AND PROGRESSIVE PROPERTY
STUDIES”
 (2011-present);
“LAW IN THE CULTURAL SPHERE: AUTHORSHIP, OW
NERSHIP,
PERFORMANCE, AND USE”
(2012-present).
 
Published four research pamphlets on “VIOLENT MODERNITIES”
.
Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA),
 Affiliated Faculty, 2011-present
Projects at JSIA:
 
Formulated course on “International Law and Organizations” for Master’s Program i
n Law, Diplomacy, and Business (MA.DLB); Available for teaching and interdisciplinary collaborations.
 
Affiliated researcher at Centre for a New South Asia (CNSA)
IV. PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
 
Clemson University,
 
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science (Fall 2008)
 
Course Taught:
 Political Violence and Terrorism
 
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law,
 
Westerfield Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2006- Spring 2008) Courses Taught:
Transnational Impact Litigation; Human Rights Litigation; Legal Research and Writing; Moot Court Advocacy
 
New York University School of Law,
 
Doctoral Research Fellow, Program in the History and Theory of International Law, Institute for International Law and Justice (Fall 2001- Spring 2006)
 
V. PUBLICATIONS  Articles:
 
“Post 
-Human Humanitarian Law: The Law of War in the Age of Robotic Warfare,
 2
Harvard National Security Journal
(2011)
 
“Editors’ Foreword: The Globalization of Legal Knowledge
,
 2
 Jindal Global Law Review 
 (2010) (with Prabhakar Singh)
 
 3
 
 Justice without Delay: Targeted Recommendations from the National Seminar on Pendency and Delays in the Indian Legal System
, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (2010) (Editor-in-Chief, Contributing Author)
 
“Two Cri
ses of Confidence: Securing Non-Proliferation and the Rule of Law through Security
Council Resolutions,”
34
Ohio Northern University Law Review
(2008)
 
“Review Essay: Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception,”
 4
International Journal of Constitutional Law 
 (2006)
 
“International Emergency Governance: Fragments of A Driverless System,”
 12
Critical Sense: Berkeley Interdisciplinary Journal of Political Theory
(2004)
 
“Capital Punishment as “Closure”: Limits of a
 Victim-Centered Jurisprudence,
 27,
New York University Review of Law and Social Change
(2001-2002)
 
“Book Review: David Kennedy, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessin
g International Humanitarianism,
 
Global Law Books Project 
, Edited by Joseph H.H. Weiler and Miguel Poiares Maduro (2005), available at  http://www.globallawbooks.org 
 
“Book Review: Karl Heinz Ladeur,
Public Governance in the Age of Globalization,
 Global Law Books Project 
, Edited by Joseph H.H. Weiler and Miguel Poiares Maduro (2005), available at http://www.globallawbooks.org 
Edited Books and Journal Issues:
 
Editor-in-Chief,
 Justice without Delay: Targeted Recommendations from the National Seminar on Pendency and Delays in the Indian Legal System
, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (2010)
 
Editor-in-Chief,
 
(with Prabhakar Singh),
 Jindal Global Law Review 
 Vol. (2)1 (2010), Special Issue:
“The Globalization of Legal Knowledge” (F
irst issue of an Indian law review to be archived by Lexis-Nexis).
 Articles, Accepted or In Progress:
 
Author,
“International Law and Coercion” in
Ugo Mattei and John D. Haskell, eds.,
Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law 
, (accepted, Edward Elgar Press, 2013).
 
Author,
“Re
-Tooling the Rule of Law: Instrumentalism and the Implementation of Humanitarian
Law in Failed and Fragile States,”
International Community Law Review
(accepted and under revision 2012)
 
Author,
“Spring Forward, Fall Back: How R2P Won the War and Lost the Law in Libya”
(under submission to law reviews); accepted to be reprinted in Arnulf Becker Lorca, ed.,
Pursuing your Enemies in the South: International Law and the War against Crime and Terror 
 (accepted 2013).
 
Co-
Author, “After Introspection: The Challenge of Timely Justice in India—
 A Comparative Assessment," (with Winky So Wing) (under revision)
 
Author, “
Friends, Enemies, and the Fog of Foreign Relations: Ho
w
Politi
cal Question’
 Doctrines Thwart the Development of a
Principled Alien Tort Jurisprudence” (in progress, available to
present)
 Authored and Edited Books, Accepted or In Progress:
 
Co-Editor, (with Prabhakar Singh),
Critical International Law: Post-Realism, Post-Colonialism, and Transnationalism
. (Oxford University Press, 2012) (Under contract; submissions received)
 
Co-Editor (with Oishik Sircar and Rajshree Chandra),
Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Performance, and Protest 
 (Oxford University Press) (Under contract; submissions received)
 
Co-Editor, (with B.S. Chimni and Prabhakar Singh),
International Law: Contemporary Indian Perspectives
 (prepared for Pearson or Oxford) (awaiting submissions)
 
Editor,
Coercion in International Law: Contexts of Force and its Limitation
 (MS at proposal stage, solicited submissions received in advance of general call for papers) (proposal available at SSRN)
 
Author,
The Politics of Necessity: Doctrines and Discourses of Salus Populi in Public International Law 
 (book manuscript, under revision, draft available at SSRN)
VI. TEACHING PREFERENCES
 
Public and Private International Law: e.g., International Law, Law of War, International Organizations, Transnational Litigation, International Business Transactions, Constitutional Law of Foreign Relations

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