 Laiba Arshad

 B.A.LLB
 Sec- C
 DME Law School GGSIP University
 Date- 9/09/18
 Legal Methods
 Professor Upendra Baxi, born at Rajkot,
Saurashtra
 Graduated from Rajkot (Gujarat University)
 Read law at the University of Bombay, and
holds LLM degrees from the University of
California at Berkeley
 In 1973 also he was awarded with Doctorate in
Juristic Sciences
 He began his law teaching career in the
Department of Jurisprudence and
International Law at Sydney Law School (1969-
1973)
 Served as Professor of Law, University of Delhi
(1973- 1996.)
 He also served as the Vice-Chancellor of Delhi
University (1990-1994), as well as the Vice-
Chancellor, University of South Gujarat, Surat
(1982-1985)
 the Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian
Law Institute (1885-1988), and the President of the
Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995.)
 Professor Baxi has taught various courses in law
and science, comparative constitutionalism, legal
theory, and comparative social theory of human
rights at the University of Sydney, Duke University,
Washington College of Law, The American
University; the Global Law Program at New York
University Law School, and the University of
Toronto.
o Baxi has been a member of the editorial
committee of many leading Indian and
international law journals/reviews including:
1.The Journal of the Indian Law Institute
2.The Journal of the Indian Society of International Law
3. Law & Society Review (USA)
4. I-Con
5. International Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law (USA)
o He is currently on the editorial board of: the
Human Rights Law Review (UK); SUR:
International Journal of Human Rights (Brazil);
Law in Context (Australia); Macquarie Law
Review (Australia); Journal of International
Law and International Relations (Canada)
 Professor Baxi has been noted for his pedagogic and
research contributions at many institutions.
 His internationally acknowledged contributions lie in the
areas of Third World and International Law theory and
movement, sociological studies of human rights theory and
practice, the relationship between technoscience
formations and the law, transformative constitutionalism
and adjudicatory policymaking, and critical studies of
globalization of law.
 Baxi has initiated and promoted sociological research in
Indian law through a variety of initiatives with the Indian
Council of Social Science Research and the University
Grants Commission
 His study of Lokadalat at Rangpur (Gujarat) has had
considerable impact on the democratization of access to
justice in the state legal systems.
 Born in Malabar on November 1, 1915, Justice
V.R. Krishna Iyer went on to become one of the
best lawyers in India.
 A rare individual with high principles and a
dedicated, daring and humane lawyer, he
excelled as a creative legislator while in the
Madras Legislature.
 Justice Krishna Iyer practiced law and
defended peasants and workers who were
justly exploited by the Zamindars with the
support of the colonial regime.
 The Report of the Expert Committee on Legal Aid
commissioned by the Indian Government under
his Chairmanship is the foundation of all legal aid
developments in the country.
 Later, he became a Judge in the Supreme Court of
India.
 He was judge in case of Indira Gandhi v. Raj
Narayan.
 It was his judgment that declined judicial solace
to Indira Gandhi after Allahabad High Court had
convicted her for election malpractice that led to
the imposition of emergency in 1975.
 Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna
 Srikrishna was born in Bangalore, to B. Narayanaswamy and
Sharadamma.
 Narayanaswamy was a lawyer in Bombay High Court.
 Srikrishna was brought up in Bombay and graduated with
a bachelor's degree in Science from the Elphinstone
College of the University of Bombay, received an LL.B. from
the Government Law College, Mumbai, an LL.M. from the
University of Bombay, and stood second in the university.
 He holds an MA in Sanskrit from the University of Mysore, a
diploma in Urdu and a postgraduate diploma in Indian
Aesthetics from the University of Bombay. He knows ten
languages including his mother tongue Kannada.
 Justice B. N. Srikrishna (Retd) was a Judge of
Supreme Court of India.
 Justice Srikrishna serves as the Vice President and
a Trustee at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
 He served as an Independent & Public Interest
Director of National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.
since August 2, 2013.
 He serves as Director of NSDL e-Governance
Infrastructure Ltd.
 He serves as a Trustee at India International
Centre. He served as a Director of National
Securities Depository Ltd.
 The Sixth central pay commission was set up by Union Cabinet
of India on 5 October 2006.Justice Srikrishna to head 6th pay
panel ,The Commission, was headed by Srikrishna.
 He is leading the effort to draft new data privacy-laws for India
that will regulate how tech giants from US and elsewhere will
operate in the country.
 Srikrishna plans to navigate a "middle path" between the
laissez-faire US approach and the stringent GDPR just imposed
in Europe.
 Works
 Book on riot survivors released by Srikrishna in Mumbai, 2012,
 A Heritage of Judging: The Bombay High Court through One
Hundred and Fifty Years. (Co-author)
 Skinning a Cat[19]
 Indian judges.[20]
 Foreword of Gujarat Files, self-published by Rana Ayyub.
 B. S. Chimni is Professor of International Law at School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
 He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School
(1995-96) and Law Fellow, University of York, Canada (1993).
 He has been teaching international economic law for the last twenty
years.
 His other areas of interest are international legal theory and
international refugee law. But for the past many years his principal
interest has been in bringing together a group of like minded
scholars from the third world to challenge Western dominance in the
field of international law.
 His publications include International Commodity Agreements: A
Legal Study (1987), International Law and World Order: A Critique of
Contemporary Approaches (1993) and International Refugee Law: A
Reader (2000).
 He is an Executive Editor of the Indian Journal of International Law
and one of the editors of The Third World and International Law (to be
launched in March this year).