NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism

NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism

A student-run initiative which organizes guest lectures and panels on campus particularly in the field of Constitutionalism.

About

The Lecture Series started in 2016, aims to bring together scholarship and practice in the field of constitutionalism, and has had the privilege to host speakers like Dr. Raghuram Rajan (Former Governor, RBI), Prof. Upendra Baxi, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat (Supreme Court of India), Prof. M.P. Singh, Ms. Indira Jaising, Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar, Mr. Arvind Datar, Justice (retd) Ms. Ruma Pal, Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde, Senior Advocate Sanjoy Ghose, Amb. Talmiz Ahmad, Ms Suchitra Vijayan, Dr Manoj Kumar Jha, Mr K.M. Chandrasekhar, Prof Aakash Singh Rathore, Prof Nandini Sundar, Prof Richard Albert, Prof Rajeev Bhargava, AOR Mr Talha Abdul Rahman and many other distinguished speakers in the recent past.

Lecture Series can be contacted at lectures.constitutionalism@nalsar.ac.in

Lectures Over the Years

 

Weaponising Evidence Law? Understanding Reverse Burden | NALSAR University of Law

January 19, 2025: AOR Mr Talha Abdul Rahman (NALSAR Batch of 2008)

 

The roots of India’s Plural democracy

Keynote Address, 2024: Prof Rajeev Bhargava




Small Voices of the Constitution

March 11, 2024: Prof Nandini Sundar

Decolonizing Constitutional Law:An Ambedkarite Perspective|Constitutionalism

October, 2024: Prof Aakash Singh Rathore

Book Talk- Maulana Azad: A Life

6th April, 2023 : Prof S Irfan Habib

Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment in Constitutional Courts

20 March, 2024 : Prof Richard Albert

 

State Violence and the Political Prisoners

Ms Suchitra Vijayan,
Author: Midnight’s Borders, Founder and Executive Director- The Polis Project

Federalism and the Indian Constitution

Sri K.M. Chandrasekhar
Former Cabinet Secretary of India

Constitutionalism and its discontents

Mr. Talmiz Ahmad
Former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE,
Ram Sathe Chair for International Studies, Symbiosis International University, Pune

 

Have courts essentially failed religious practices?

Sanjay Hegde,
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Fixing the bench: The important role of the master of roster

September 23, 2022: Sanjoy Ghose, Senior Advocate

Elections – Democracy in Action in India

2021:Justice S. Ravindra Bhat (Judge, Supreme Court of India)

Constitutionalism and India’s Economic Future

2021: Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School

Moderated Parliamentarism

2021: Prof. Tarunabh Khaitan

Labour and the Constitution

2020: Sr. Advocate Gopal Subramanium

Constitutionalism and Identity

2017: Prof. Upendra Baxi

The Constitution, Federalism and GST

2017: Sr. Advocate Arvind Datar