NUJS Professor of law Manoj Kumar Sinha has been appointed as director of the Indian Law Institute (ILI) Delhi.
Sinha told Legally India that he would join in two weeks but declined to comment further.
After his departure, NUJS will only have two other professors – chair professors Prof Udai Raj Rai and Shamnad Basheer.
Sinha was previously director at Indian Society of International Law between May 2006 and March 2009.
Between 2000 and 2006 he was assistant professor and course coordinator for the postgraduate diploma in human rights, and international humanitarian and refugee laws, at the Indian Society of International Law in Delhi.
Between 2004 and 2005 he was also visiting professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University in Sweden.
On Monday Legally India had reported that NUJS vice-chancellor Prof Ishwara Bhatt vowed to hire more faculty after the student council and faculty members lodged written protests about the state of faculty at the university.
MK Sinha CV:
- Ph.D.. International Law, JNU, New Delhi, India (1997).
- M.Phil.,International Law, JNU, New Delhi, India (1994).
- M.A., International Studies (Politics), JNU, New Delhi, India (1997).
- LL. M. International Human Rights Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom (1998).
- LL.B., University of Delhi, India (2002).
To be updated.
Comments
In respect of breaking, I happened to read about it first in a comment from a reader on Legally India earlier this afternoon. :)
But if it's just happening right now and, y'know, exciting and just out and not really been reported a long time ago anywhere, it's 'breaking' when we do our story.
If we scoop it before anyone else does or is likely to, it's an exclusive. Or a breaking exclusive sometimes. Does that make sense? :)
I'm just nitpicking here.
You're kinda right on the Salve story... It was a joint exclusive embargoed for 9am on Monday. However,The Lawyer, by an accidental technological glitch published their story at midnight.
So, yes, technically the exclusivity was gone by the time we published, but since I'm good friends with TL and you could argue it's an India exclusive, I retained the exclusive tag.
I tried to find out but there aren't really any hard and fast rules on what is breaking, exclusive, etc (try watching any news TV channel for some interesting definitions of breaking for example...)
We're trying to be as fair as we can be with the usage of the terms, but sometimes there are greys, obviously.
Anyway, thanks for the nitpick, always fun to discuss this stuff! :)
Would you rather we wouldn't have published a story at all? Or you're just upset that we're called it breaking? Or you'd rather that we don't refer to other publications in sourcing, and just pretend we live in a vacuum and 'learn' things through the ether, as others seem to? Or, basically, you don't really like LI anyway and just came to complain? :)
(all those are rhetorical questions, let's get back on topic yes please?)
@Chillpill 2.2 below - thanks for your call to reason. And agree it's not possible to know with 100% certainty whether something is a scoop. But we usually ask our sources whether anyone else knows about it, so you can get a pretty good idea most of the time... Do let us know please if we ever get it wrong...
Kudos to the start up online portal! But it would be better and good for you in the long run if you start chasing news items shedding your own sweat than browse through established websites' comments section like LI or B&B.
Give the chap a break! He responds to comments on a regular basis. Yes, in some cases we may feel that we are unable to get our point across and may feel the urge to conclude that he isn't being serious/ being defensive, but so what. Debate and discussions need not be unnecessarily aggressive. As Kian says, "Would you rather we wouldn't have published a story at all? Or you're just upset that we're called it breaking?"
Relax everyone, the weekend is here. So much kolaveri, phew.
@ Kian: some commentators must be upset that they have a working weekend and venting here ;) You must forgive them, he he.
We're also working on some exciting stuff we hope to be able to share soon. Will keep you posted.
We're also working on some exciting stuff we hope to be able to share soon. Will keep you posted.[/quote]
Would be great if you closely follow Indian law firms working in London. Your news on Fox Mandal is a million dollar news! Keep it up.
On a separate note, I've never understood how reporters label a story as "scoop" because it is usually impossible to know for sure that no one else has the story.
His NUJS faculty profile lists his biog as we have published:
http://nujs.edu/faculty/manoj-kumar-sinha.html
I don't think it's unheard of for people to do an LLB after an LLM and a bunch of other degrees, particularly if you have as many as Prof Sinha.
And as far as I know it's perfectly possible to do an LLM, for example, if you have sufficient qualifications in political or other subjects.
But, anyway, was this really the most interesting part of the story? :)
I also agree with Kian that this is not the interesting part of the story. Any one there brave enough to speak abt that?
I also agree with Kian that this is not the interesting part of the story. Any one there brave enough to speak abt that?[/quote]
You are no better than KIan... See what you have said in first line .... "LL.B to pursue an LL.B."
I think there was nothing wrong in the reporting of LI as far as Prof. Sinha's Edu. qualifications are concerned.
Its possible to do M.Phil and Ph. D in International Law from JNU after completing your M.A. in Political Science with specialisation in International Relations. Its also possible to do an LL.M. without an LL.B. from an American or European University. Manoj just did that. He decided to do an LL.B. from Delhi University after acquiring all these degrees!!! I wonder whether this is an implicit recognition that there are no legal scholars specialising in domestic laws to head ILI or that nobody worth his/her name is interested in associating his/her name with ILI. Whatever may be the case, its a pity.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/iit-madras-faculty-appointments-to-be-investigated-by-cbi-397061?pfrom=home-health
(LI- sorry for posting this in two topics but I felt they are interconnected and the matter is of grave importance)
The Bar Council of India regulations stipulate that LLB is a full-time program and part-time degrees are not recognized.
Would we have a director of the Indian Law Institute with an unrecognized LLB degree?
But, is that really all that ILI ought to aspire for?
prof. sinha is actually from the background of political science and international relations. then he turned to international law. so there is no harm in that. apart from that he was on eu scholarship to do his ll.m from international human rights law, which many of the persons from non law background have done. it is better not criticizing his education, which many of us don't have.
he is not like pillai, but not shivakumar also. he will be there in ili for a five year term, so let's see what he is up to.........though it is difficult to stay in ili if you are not a very careful politician.
It seems, NLU's(No Law University) are given some discount by UGC and these jugardu faculties are making money and building CV by jugard. Frankly this is discouraging for qualified and studious faculties.