The law ministry has inducted nine legal experts into the 19th Law Commission of India, including NLU Delhi vice-chancellor Ranbir Singh, Rajasthan High Court judge Shiv Kumar Sharma and former additional solicitor general Amarjit Singh.
The current law commission was appointed on 1 September 2010 for a three-year tenure finishing on 31 August 2012, selecting Justice P V Reddi as chairman and member-secretary B A Agarwal as member-secretary.
Former Rajasthan High Court judge Shiv Kumar Sharma and ex-additional solicitor general of India Amarjit Singh are the two permanent inductions, whereas in the 18th Law Commission previously only a single permanent member was included.
Some of the other selected members include senior advocates A. Mariarputham, B. V. Acharya; former presiding officer in Securities Appellate Tribunal C. Achuthan; principal of Symbiosis LawSchool Shashikala Gurupur Murphy.
Ranbir Singh, who was Nalsar Hyderabad’s first vice chancellor and is currently running the new national law school NLU Delhi is taking up a seat as a part-time member.
The Law Commission is an executive advisory body to the Goverment of India that consists of ex-judicial officers, law practitioners and members of the academia.
Its role is to recommend reformative changes for the promotion of justice.
The Charter Act of 1833 had established the first law commission of pre-Independence era while the first law commission of independent India came into existence in 1955 under MC Setalvad as chairman.
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[We regret the error due to a misreading - that should have been founding vice-chancellor, not founder... -Ed]
People detest Prof Singh because he snubbed tradition and had the guts to boldly promote and advertise NALSAR. That is exactly the kind of VCs which are needed. I have heard people from NLSIU and NUJS criticise Madhav menon, Jaygovind and MP Singh for not aggressively marketing their college. They may have more books and papers published but Prof Singh is a better VC by far. Mark my words Prof Singh will make NLU Delhi the next NALSAR.
Congrats Sir !!!
[We regret the error due to a misreading - that should have been founding vice-chancellor, not founder... -Ed] "
The blog should do better than apologising without research!
I have extracted the post which some disillusioned person posted! in retort to the rightly informed one!
Yes!
He was the "Founder of NALSAR". And if people do not know, it should be known that the so called premier NALSAR in fact started out from a single floor of a house in the suburbs of Hyderabad( where incidentally Mr.Singh used to stay as well). Unlike other NLS's it did not have available state funding. It was Mr. Singh who designed the outlay, laid the first brick, arranged the funding( through the Govt. of A.P. and various pioneers of the legal profession) and delivered NALSAR.
So, please present a careful criticism. No body can take his accomplishments away. I am not saying that he is ablest man for the "Job" but retorting to an idiot who does not know his facts.
And for the self proclaimed champion of articulation! The greatest of minds in the world have not been able to address an audience! If you are a litigator, and I hope you are(though I doubt it because of your immaturity) you must be sad at your work!
With the laying of several other brick/slabs of granites/entire "research" centre buildings unpopulated and vacant in the campus - Nalsar's early years were a classic study in the "leakage of funds from public infrastructure projects". The administration were lucky to have pre-dated the RTI, and be blessed with beholden students (several nephews, nieces and friends of the family amongst them - surprise surprise ;P!), and Mr. Singh of course, has built a smashing profile. No doubt at all that he is a marketing genius, and no doubt at all that this is the base skil required to build an academic institution. What else could you possibly need?!! Congrats!