The Tamil Nadu National Law School (TNNLS) will appoint CLC Delhi professor Kamala Sankaran as its second vice chancellor (VC).

Sankaran’s appointment will finally relieve NLSIU Bangalore alumni and bureaucrat Arun Roy who was deputed to act as VC after its first VC N Murugavel resigned over differences with its executive council.

Sankaran has been offered the post of VC by a selection committee at TNNLS, confirmed two sources with knowledge of the process. She did not respond to calls and messages for comment since today afternoon.

She has been a professor of law since 2012 at her alma mater, CLC, in the Delhi University where she began her career in 2000 as an associate professor. She did her LLB from CLC in 1982, and her LLM and PhD from the DU’s Faculty of Law in 1985 and 1999, was a lecturer from 1994 to 2000 at Jamia Milia Islamia Delhi’s law faculty, and a research professor for one year in 2006 at ILI, Delhi, according to her profile on DU’s website.

it is understood that Roy has already taken charge of the Metro Water Supply Board in Chennai, as its managing director as per the Board’s website, but will hold the fort until Sankaran joins.