Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Indira Banerjee has accepted an invitation to join West Bengal National University of Juridical Science (NUJS), Kolkata as a Visiting Professor..Justice Banerjee expressed her desire to teach courses on Constitutional Law and Family Law at NUJS, as highlighted by the University in a LinkedIn post .Justice Banerjee enrolled as a lawyer in 1985 and practiced before the Calcutta High Court.She was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court on February 5, 2002 and was transferred to the Delhi High Court on August 8, 2016. She was made the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court on April 5, 2017.She was elevated to the Supreme Court on August 7, 2018, the eighth woman to hold that distinction in India's history..Following her retirement in September 2022, while delivering a keynote address during the launch of a report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy assessing the decade since the coming of POCSO, she called for an amendment to provisions of the Act dealing with compulsory reporting of offences and the age of consent..In November 2022, former Chief Justice of India UU Lalit had also accepted invitation to join the University as a Visiting Professor.
Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Indira Banerjee has accepted an invitation to join West Bengal National University of Juridical Science (NUJS), Kolkata as a Visiting Professor..Justice Banerjee expressed her desire to teach courses on Constitutional Law and Family Law at NUJS, as highlighted by the University in a LinkedIn post .Justice Banerjee enrolled as a lawyer in 1985 and practiced before the Calcutta High Court.She was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court on February 5, 2002 and was transferred to the Delhi High Court on August 8, 2016. She was made the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court on April 5, 2017.She was elevated to the Supreme Court on August 7, 2018, the eighth woman to hold that distinction in India's history..Following her retirement in September 2022, while delivering a keynote address during the launch of a report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy assessing the decade since the coming of POCSO, she called for an amendment to provisions of the Act dealing with compulsory reporting of offences and the age of consent..In November 2022, former Chief Justice of India UU Lalit had also accepted invitation to join the University as a Visiting Professor.