CJI DY Chandrachud Appoints Commission To Review Working Of NLSIU
Aiman J. Chishti
22 July 2023 10:01 AM GMT
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, who is also the chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), has appointed the School Review Commission 2023-24 (SRC) to undertake a comprehensive review of all aspects of the University.
Appointed in consultation with the Karnataka Government, the SRC is expected to submit its report by mid-2024. The SRC comprises Prof. Timothy Endicott as the Chair, and Prof. Catherine O'Regan and Prof. David B. Wilkins as Members.
Section 14 of the National Law School of India Act, 1986 mandates the appointment of a School Review Commission comprising three eminent educationists to review the working of the University.
The official press release of NLSIU gives the brief introduction of the chairperson and members of SRC as follows:
Prof. Endicott, the chairperson of SRC is presently the Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford and Former Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty for two terms, from 2007 to 2015.
Prof. Wilkins is presently the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at the Harvard Law School.
Prof. O’Regan has been the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford since 2016. Prof O’Regan’s fifteen-year term as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa ended in 2009.
The press release also stated that previously there had been a constitution of two commissions to review the workings of NLSIU. In 1996, an Expert Panel comprising Prof Marc Galanter, Prof Savitri Goonesekere and Prof William Twining reviewed the University and advised on future directions.
In 2007 - 2008, a Commission was appointed that was chaired by Justice K. T. Thomas, former judge of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, and included as its members Prof (Dr) Virendra Kumar and Prof (Dr) MP Singh.
