Sudhir Krishnaswamy

Sudhir Krishnaswamy (born 1975) is an Indian academic, administrator, and civil society activist who is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU)[1] and is a co-founder of the not-for-profit research trust Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR).[2] Krishnaswamy took over as VC of NLSIU from R. Venkata Rao in September 2019.[3][4] Krishnaswamy is the first alumnus of NLSIU to be appointed as the VC of the institution.[5] On 6 May 2020, Facebook appointed him to its content oversight board.[6]

Background and Education

Krishnaswamy was born in 1975 in Bangalore, India. He graduated from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore with a B.A. LL.B. Subsequently, he read for the BCL at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.[7] He further obtained a D.Phil. from the same institution in 2008.[1] Krishnaswamy has been a Teaching Fellow in Law at the Pembroke College at the University of Oxford, an Assistant Professor at NLSIU and a Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.[2]

Dr. Krishnaswamy has also worked in the Prime Minister’s Committee on Infrastructure and the Kasturirangan Committee on Governance of Bangalore.[8] He has authored a book titled ‘Democracy and Constitutionalism in India’ which was published by the Oxford University Press in 2009.[9]

Bibliography

Books
  • Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine (Oxford University Press 2008)[10]

Articles
  • Access to Knowledge and Traditional Knowledge Protection in R Subramaniam and L Shaver (eds) Access to Knowledge in India (Bloomsbury Academic 2011)
  • Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla Understanding our Supreme Court 46 Economic and Political Weekly 71 (2011)
  • Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla Military Power and the Constitution 611 Seminar (2010)
  • Constitutional Durability 615 Seminar (2010)
  • Mashelkar Report on IP Rights Version II: Wrong Again 44 Economic and Political Weekly 27 (2009)
  • Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla Regional Emergencies under Article 356: The Extent of Judicial Review 3 Indian Journal of Constitutional Law 168 (2009)
  • Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla Reading AK Thakur v Union of India: Legal Effect and Significance 43 Economic and Political Weekly 53 (2008)
  • Where Public Law and Private Law Meet: Horizontal Rights in the Indian Constitution in C Raj Kumar (eds) Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Constitutional Empowerment(Oxford University Press, Delhi 2007)
  • Reliance Airports Case: Public Law and Public Sector Reform 41 Economic and Political Weekly 4239 (2006)
  • Intellectual Property and India’s Development Policy 1 Indian Journal of Law and Technology (2006)
  • Are our IP laws promoting or suppressing Indian Intellectual Property? India IP Essay Contest Winner (2004)[11]

References
  1. "Prof.Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy – NLSIU". Nls.ac.in. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. "Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy".
  3. Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 18:28 (2019-09-25). "Sudhir Krishnaswamy takes charge as NLSIU Bengaluru V-C, ending controversy". The News Minute. Retrieved 2020-02-27.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "Sudhir Krishnaswamy Appointed VC of NLSIU". Deccan Herald. September 26, 2019.
  5. Law schools. "Prof Sudhir K finally takes charge of his alma mater, NLSIU Bangalore as CJI ends appointment saga - Legally India - News for Lawyers". Legally India. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  6. "Facebook is spending $130 million to create a 'Supreme Court' that can overrule Mark Zuckerberg — here are its first 20 members". Business Insider. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  7. "Rhodes Scholar Database".
  8. "People | Sudhir Krishnaswamy | the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University".
  9. "Sudhir Krishnaswamy".
  10. Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine. Oxford University Press. 2011-01-27. ISBN 9780199081455.
  11. https://watson.brown.edu/southasia/files/southasia/imce/people/Faculty/VisitingScholars/KrishnaswamyCVJune2017.pdf
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