Law, Laughter and Beyond

Law, Laughter and Beyond
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A product of NUJS’s Kautilya Society, an initiative of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.

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  1. 30.01.2024

    Interviewing Sarath Mathew

    Sarath Ninan Mathew is a full-time DPhil Researcher in the Law Faculty and a member of St. Hughs College. He completed his Bachelor's in Law, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences; and his Master's in Law, LLM in Commercial Laws from the University of Cambridge. He graduated his LLM with the 'CMS Prize for Coporate Law' for distinction in Corporate Finance Law examination, and was the Pratibha M. Singh Cambridge Trust scholar during his LLM year.Sarath's present research is at the interface of E-Sports and copyright law. He seeks to understand how US and EU copyright law regulates E-Sports streams, and how the doctrinal position contrasts with the self-regulation presently found in the industry. The research is expected to include both doctrinal and empirical work. Sarath's other academic interest areas include contract law, company law, corporate finance law, and legal methods. Sarath is also highly interested in teaching and has taught modules for NUJS Intellectual Property and Technology Laws Society, and the non-profit legal education program - Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access.Sarath has served on the editorial boards of the Cambridge Law Review and the Journal of Indian Law and Society. He was the Chief Editor of the Journal of Indian Law and Society during his last 6 months with the journal. Sarath worked for 1 year in Ambala district in Haryana as a Chief Minister's Good Governance Associate wherein he worked with the State Government and the District Administration to improve public administration. Sarath has also served as the Administrative Head of the NUJS-HSF Bridge Project, a project that educates underprivileged kids living in the slums of Kolkata.

    30 мин.

  2. 30.01.2024

    Interviewing Pranav Butalia

    Pranav graduated from NUJS in 2019 and currently works as a Senior Associate in the Energy and Infrastructure practice at Trilegal. He joined the firm's Dispute Resolution practice as a fresher before switching internally to focus entirely on the renewable energy industry and has acted on a variety of contentious, non-contentious, and policy mandates for clients in the sustainability sector.

    27 мин.

  3. 11.09.2022

    Interviewing Swarna Sengupta

    Swarna is a Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy working in the area of Fintech. She graduated from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata with a B.A. LL.B (Hons.) in 2021. Her areas of interests include financial regulations, data protection laws, commercial laws and the emerging frameworks of new financial technologies. She previously worked with the law firm L&L Partners wherein she was involved in advising on various issues under the Companies Act, the foreign exchange laws and the employment laws. She has also worked with the Vidhi Kautilya Society at NUJS and has contributed to the NUJS Law Review. In this podcast, we have interviewed Swarna on her time at NUJS and how her activities at the universities allowed her to shape her interests and profession. We have talked to her about her experiences at L&L partners and the differences between working at a law firm and a policy think tank in India. We discussed her interests during law school and the work structure that the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy follows. Towards the end of the podcast, Swarna and the hosts talk about the situation of law schools in the country and what law students can do to cultivate their interests.

    29 мин.

  4. 01.02.2022

    Interviewing Shubhangi Agarwalla

    Shubhangi Agarwalla is a lawyer based in Delhi where her work focuses on international trade law and public international law. She has previously worked with Max Planck Institute of International Law and the United Nations International Law Commission under the Helton Fellowship. In a previous life, she interned with the international arbitration teams of two multinational law firms. To make sense of these varied experiences and reflect on the life of international law more generally, she runs a blog International Law and the Global South. In this episode, she discusses a career in international law, higher education, and being a woman in IL from the Global South.

    23 мин.

  5. 03.12.2021

    Interviewing Ameen Jauhar

    Ameen is a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi, and leads the Centre for Applied Law and Technology Research (ALTR). His interest and research focus lies in AI ethics, and the governance of AI. Within ALTR, he has been leading the team's collaborative research on data trusts, and artificial intelligence. Ameen has also worked on the intersection of technology and the justice system, as a senior fellow working on the JALDI mission's engagement with the Supreme Court of India's AI and E-Courts' committees. Ameen has a formal educational background in social research methods and evidence-based policy. He completed his master’s programme from the Institute of Education (University College London), focusing on the use of research evidence in policy processes, and was awarded an MSc. with an overall distinction. Before this, he completed his undergraduate legal studies from the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences [B.A. LL.B. (Hons.)] in 2012. Prior to Vidhi, Ameen worked at J. Sagar Associates, in the firm’s regulatory and policy team. He has practised in the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court, and numerous tribunals. In this Podcast, Akshay and Sri have interviewed Ameen about his experience with the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and his time as a student at NUJS and UCL. In this podcast they talk about about the integration of AI with the country's judiciary and discuss recent events and development in policy and affiliated research.

    38 мин.

  6. 01.11.2021

    Interviewing Malavika Rajkumar

    Malavika has worked as a research fellow with Nyaaya under the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and a graduate of Symbiosis International University and holds a B.B.A.LLB degree. Her main areas of research include women's rights, child rights, social welfare legislations, gender based violence and information design. She also writes regularly on publications such as Live Law and Firstpost. Before joining Vidhi she completed a summer course on International Relations from Kings College London in 2017. She has worked on the Legal Development Project funded by WHO on ‘Road Safety and Design’ and in the National Policy and Research Team by IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access). In this Podcast Sri and Astha have interviewed Malavika about her experience with the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and her time as a student at Symbiosis and Kings. They have discussed the growth of the legal field in the country, especially the ideas about legal research and development. In the episode, Malavika further talks about the various activities a law student should take part in their pivotal years and the best possible ways to shape ones legal acumen.

    32 мин.

  7. 01.09.2021

    Interviewing Japleen Pasricha

    Japleen Pasricha is the founder & editor-in-chief of Feminism in India (FII), an award-winning digital feminist media platform. She is also a TEDx speaker and a UN World Summit Young Innovator. Japleen has researched the impact that language and images have on communities and is developing a toolkit on the use of ethical, accessible, and compassionate language when discussing sexual and reproductive health. She started FII as a Facebook page in 2013 that curated feminist content from the Internet. The platform is now a full-fledged bilingual feminist media organisation that creates and publishes unique content every day. She was featured by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in a book on ‘Women in Tech’ for her work at FII and felicitated by Maneka Gandhi and the Ministry of Women & Child Development (GOI) as Web Wonder Woman. She has also been recognised by the Swedish Foreign Minister for her work on the gender gap on Wikipedia. Japleen currently oversees strategic vision and growth at Feminism in India. In this Podcast Sri and Astha have covered Japleen’s experiences in setting up Feminism in India and asked her to share some of her own experiences as a student in Delhi University and Jawahar Lal University. They have discussed the most problematic notions blocking the growth of women’s rights in India and the possible ways to overcome them. The discussion also covers incidents of rampant online violence against women in India and the possible mechanisms to institute a more safe online sphere.

    38 мин.

  8. 01.08.2021

    Interviewing Aparna Mittal

    Aparna Mittal is a leading Equality, Diversity & Inclusion  Advisor, and corporate lawyer with over 17 years of experience. She is the Founder of Samāna Centre for Gender, Policy and Law, India’s leading consultancy, focused on equality and inclusion for all segments of diversity, and with a specialization on gender and LGBTQ inclusion; and brings a unique perspective of multi themed advisory work spanning across impact investing and ESG; entrepreneurship development; financial empowerment; workplace diversity, equity and inclusion; gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in projects and policy; gender mainstreaming in philanthropy & CSR; and anti discrimination and anti harassment (including anti sexual harassment) frameworks. Prior to setting up Samāna in 2018, she was Partner – Corporate Law/ Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity / Joint Ventures, with India’s leading Tier I corporate law firms, where she worked for over 13 years, and has been recognized by international publications as a recommended advisor in these areas. In this Podcast we covered Aparna's experience at NLSIU (BALLB Hons graduate 2005), decade plus experience at Tier 1 law firms where she was a Partner, and her entrepreneurship journey with Samāna . We also learnt Aparna's views on handling peer pressure, multiple skills lawyers need for today's world especially to be multi faceted professionals, and the important of using the law school experience to forge your unique identity as a professional.

    42 мин.

  9. 01.07.2021

    Interviewing Mrs. Debolina Saha Narayanan

    In this episode we charted the illustrious career of Mrs. Debolina Saha. She is the founder of Internship Bank, a platform which provides professional internships and connects female interns with female mentors. She enlightened us with the various issues interns face in India and how Debolina's organization has helped numerous interns garner internships and mentors. We also covered her experience at NUJS, Amarchand, Ashurst (London), and Allen and Overy (Hong Kong). She explained to us the type of challenges and differences in each firm and what they look for in prospective employees.

    35 мин.

  10. 01.06.2021

    Interviewing Mr. Agnidipto Tarafder (Part 2)

    In this part of our interview, we discussed the role of professors in teaching and how the bar council has created the notion of 'pure academics'. We also discussed the culture of hero worship in law schools and how it is pertinent to know the limits of idolization.

    15 мин.

  11. 01.06.2021

    Interviewing Mr. Agnidipto Tarafder (Part I)

    Mr. Agnidipto Tarafder is an assistant professor at NUJS who specializes in privacy law (he is the only professor in India to design a course on privacy and law). In this episode we talked about his admission to Harvard University to pursue an LLM. We discussed the procedure, his expectations and what he thought made him stand out as an applicant. We also covered how he got into privacy law and what his experience at NUJS taught him.

    29 мин.

  12. 01.05.2021

    Interviewing Dr. Sroyon Mukherjee

    In our interview with Dr. Mukherjee we discussed his time at both NUJS and London School of Economics. We compared the two and also discussed how he would change things if he went back with the knowledge he had now.

    35 мин.
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