Online CCAL Guest Lecture: Towards a Global Constitutional Gene Pool by Professor Cheryl Saunders

The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, NLU Jodhpur, is hosting Professor Cheryl Saunders for a guest lecture on the theme “Towards a Global Constitutional Gene Pool” on March 28, 2022 from 9:30 - 10:30 (IST).

About the Centre

The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law (CCAL) is established under the patronage of the Vice Chancellor of National Law University Jodhpur, Professor Poonam Pradhan Saxena.

The Centre publishes its flagship Journal and Blog under the Guidance of our Director, Professor I.P. Massey and members of the Advisory Board such as Former CJI MN Venkatachaliah, Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhawan and Professor Timothy Endicott amongst others.

About the Speaker

Prof. Cheryl Saunders is currently the President Emeritus of the International Association of Constitutional Law and a senior technical advisor to the Constitution Building program of International IDEA.

From 1991, as deputy chair of the Australian Constitutional Centenary Foundation, she was closely involved in its pioneering work to encourage public understanding of the Australian Constitution and has also been involved in the constitutional design in other countries like Fiji, Zimbabwe and Nepal. In 1994, Prof. Saunders was made an officer of the Order of Australia, for services to the law and to public administration and in 2003, she was awarded a Centenary Medal as well. Her primary interest is in the field of comparative constitutional law.

A few of her notable publications are “Constituting a People: A Challenge of the Indian Founding”, “Reforming Australian Federal Democracy” and “Federalism, Constitutional Democracy and Challenges for Good Governance”.

About the Event

The guest lecture shall be hosted on a video conferencing platform, Cisco WebEx.

Interested participants are required to register by filling out the form available here.

No registration fee is required to attend the same.

The link for the lecture and other details (if any) shall be communicated to the registering participants via email.

In case of any queries, reach out to us at editorcalq@gmail.com

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