The Bengaluru School of Law and Justice (SoLJ) will host the SoLJ Future of Law Symposium 2026 on November 14, 2026, at its campus in Bengaluru.
The symposium will commence at 9:15 AM with the welcome remarks by Prof. Simon Varghese, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Prof. Shruti Vidyasagar, Academic Dean.
The gathering will also be addressed by Mr. Timothy Franklyn, Founder of SoLJ, and Mr. Mithun Gerahalli, Additional Advocate General for Karnataka, as well as other members of SoLJ's management committee.
A keynote address by Dr. Aditya Sondhi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, will follow.
The first panel discussion, titled 'AI, Law and Humanism', will be held from 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM. Dr. Jyotirmoy Banerjee, Assistant Dean and Principal, SoLJ, will moderate the discussion. The panel will feature Srinivas Katta, Dr. Aarti Mundkur, Dr. Muzammil Hussain, Lakshmi Menon, Manav Nagaraj and Arjun R. Narayanaswamy.
This will be followed by a panel discussion on 'Building Public-Spirited Institutions' from 10:45 AM to 11:30 AM, moderated by David Murray, AVP of Development at Columbia University, New York, and Chair of the SoLJ Advancement Council. The panel will feature Uma Mahadevan, IAS, Milind Jha, Gerald Manoharan, Talha Salaria, Rahul Goswami and Bharat Gupta.
The symposium will culminate in the 2026 Justice G.C. Bharuka Lecture, scheduled from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Dr. Devashish Bharuka, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, will introduce the lecture, followed by the announcement of the 2026-27 Justice G.C. Bharuka Scholar.
Justice R.V. Raveendran, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, will deliver the lecture on the topic 'What Needs a Change – the Constitution or the People?'