C. Raj Kumar

Chockalingam Raj Kumar is an Indian academic administrator who is the Founding Vice-Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University^[1] in Sonipat, Haryana, India, and the Dean of the Jindal Global Law School.

He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Previously, he has consulted United Nations University, Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme; and the International Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva, National Human Rights Commission of India.^[2]

Professor Kumar is an accomplished legal scholar and works in the fields of human rights and development, comparative constitutional law, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, legal education and higher education. He has nine books and over two hundred publications to his credit and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, UK and the USA.

Education and career

Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar was born in Nagercoil city in Kanyakumari District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He studied in various schools in Tamil Nadu: Kanyakumari Public School, Kanyakumari; Ida Scudder School, Vellore; Hindu Senior Secondary School, Chennai; MCTM Chidambaram Chettiar School, Chennai, and completed his high school education from St. Bedes Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, Chennai. Professor Kumar completed his undergraduate education in commerce from Loyola College, Chennai after which he was admitted to the Faculty of Law at the University of Delhi to pursue his legal studies.

Professor Kumar received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University of Oxford,^[3] where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law degree; a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School where he obtained his Master of Laws degree.^[4] He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, Chennai, India.^[5]

He also was a research fellow at the NYU Law School.^[4]^[3]

Books

Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance (2011), published by the Oxford University Press^[6]
Terrorism, Human Security and Development: Human Rights Perspectives (forthcoming, 2012), to be published by the United Nations University Press, approx. 300 pages (co-editor)
Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment (January 2007) published by the Oxford University Press^[7]
Tsunami and Disaster Management: Law and Governance (September 2006) published by Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia^[8]
Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance (July 2006) published by LexisNexis (Butterworths)^[9]

References

^ "Open the windows for Indian universities". Hindustan Times. 17 January 2014. Archived from the original on January 17, 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^ "SPEAKER SERIES: December 5 India's Challenges for Globalizing Legal Education: Role of Faculty, Research in Institution Building". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Institution Building - Cover Story". Edutech. 4 (4): 20–23. March–April 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Build It and They Will Come Raj Kumar LL.M. '00 wants to reform India's legal system—one law student at a time". Harvard Law Bulletin. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^ "O.P. Jindal Global University". Retrieved 2019-06-28.
^ Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2012-03-15. ISBN 9780198077329.
^ Raj Kumar, C.; Chockalingam, D. (21 October 2010). Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment. ISBN 978-0198068860.
^ "Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World's Legal Bookshop : Home". www.wildy.com. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
^ http://www.pbookshop.com/php/products_info.php?id=451^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

[1] "Open the windows for Indian universities". Hindustan Times. 17 January 2014. Archived from the original on January 17, 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

[2] "SPEAKER SERIES: December 5 India's Challenges for Globalizing Legal Education: Role of Faculty, Research in Institution Building". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

[Edutech_2013-3] "Institution Building - Cover Story". Edutech. 4 (4): 20–23. March–April 2013.

[Harvard_Law_Bulletin-4] "Build It and They Will Come Raj Kumar LL.M. '00 wants to reform India's legal system—one law student at a time". Harvard Law Bulletin. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

[5] "O.P. Jindal Global University". Retrieved 2019-06-28.

[6] Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2012-03-15. ISBN 9780198077329.

[7] Raj Kumar, C.; Chockalingam, D. (21 October 2010). Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment. ISBN 978-0198068860.

[8] "Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World's Legal Bookshop : Home". www.wildy.com. Retrieved 2019-06-28.

[9] ttp://www.pbookshop.com/php/products_info.php?id=451^{[permanent dead link]}

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