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Course Outline:

India Immersion Programme – An Introduction to Law, Business and Society in India

Assessment:

Students will be assessed on the following:

Class Attendance and Performance (10%) (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Reflective Journal (1,000 words) to be submitted within one week of the completion of the India

Immersion Programme 25%

Your reflective journal should address the following:

1. What were your expectations of the trip prior to departure? How did this reflect reality?

2. Describe any cultural observations you made during your trip (differences between

Australia and India)?

3. Make some observations about local culture. How did you adjust to living and working

this environment?

4. What was the greatest challenge you faced on the trip?

5. What was the highlight of the trip?

6. What was your greatest learning on the trip (professionally or personally)?

7. As a student/young professional, what are you likely to do differently following this trip?

8. If you were organising the trip, what would you do differently/change?

Research Paper Proposal (1,000 words) (15 %) (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6)

Research question and outline of paper

400 word paper abstract

3 x 200 word annotated secondary sources

Research Paper (2500 words) – 50% (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

On a topic discussed during the India Immersion Programme.

The research paper will be marked (on a pass/fail basis) by the relevant academic who

teaches the seminar course relevant to the student’s topic.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon Successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the key components of the Australia-India relationship, areas of mutual interest and

strategic convergence.

2. Critically analyse and engage in discussion on different facets of Indian culture, society and law

as discussed in the various seminars.

3. Identify points of differences and similarities between Indian and Australian society, law and

business.

4. Critically analyse the key issues and debates around the emergence of ideas concerning bilateral

relationships from the perspective of economy, trade, diplomacy, gender and society.

5. Critically analyse the concepts raised in seminars and identify them in the assigned readings.

6. Undertake original research to apply key course concepts.

Class Schedule and Seminar Descriptions:

Day 1: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Welcome and Introduction to the India Immersion Programme

Speakers:

Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)

Professor Shaun Star, Executive Director, Centre for India Australia Studies, Assistant

Professor and Assistant Dean, Jindal Global Law School

Professor (Dr.) Laknath Jayasinghe, Associate Director, Centre for India Australia Studies,

Associate Professor in Marketing and Vice Dean (Research), Jindal Global Business School

India and Australia: A Comparative Overview of the Law and Legal Practice

Speaker:

Professor Shaun Star, Executive Director, Centre for India Australia Studies, Assistant

Professor and Assistant Dean, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

The Indian and Australian legal systems share much in common, influenced by our shared colonial

history. This seminar compares different areas of the respective legal systems so as to explore the

similarities and differences between the jurisdictions. This seminar also seeks to provide a broad

overview to the Indian legal system and establish points of reference with the Australian system of law

and governance. It hopes to provide a useful foundation for the subjects which will be taught during the

course.

Recommended Reading:

Shaun Star (ed), Australia and India: A Comparative Overview of the Law and Legal Practice

(Universal Law Publishing, 2016) – available in the library

Seminar Duration: 1.5 hours

India Australia relationship - Q&A with NCP students and alumni

Speaker:

Honorable Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Australia


Venue: Australian High Commission

Day 2: Thursday, 10 January 2019

Indian Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Speaker:

Professor (Dr.) Indranath Gupta, Controller of Examinations, Associate Professor and

Assistant Director, Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies and Assistant Director, Centre for

Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

During this seminar, students will discuss the following topics:

1. Industrial Disputes

2. Working of Trade Union

3. The issue of Minimum Wages

4. Employees Compensation

The objective of this seminar would be to showcase the inherent complexities present in labour

legislations. It is important to have a holistic understanding as India is going through a phase of transition.

Labour and Industrial Law comprises of the policy measures directed to the overall welfare of the citizens

of India. This talk would consider the existing legislations covering industrial disputes and social security

measures. On an overall note, the participants are expected to identify the potential problems in this area

and suggest for policy measures relating to social justice.

Recommended reading:

Guy Davidov, “The (Changing?) Idea of Labour Law”, (2007) 146 (3-4) International Labour

Review 311

Sankaran, Kamala, “Labour laws in South Asia: The need for an inclusive approach” (2007)

International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva

Sarath Chandra Davala, “Question of Union Recognition” (1989) Economic and Political

Weekly

Rakhi Sehgal, “‘Maruti Workers are the Villains’: Truth or Prejudice?” (2012) Economic and

Political Weekly


Possibilities for India-Australia Collaborations in Education for mutual understanding and

sustainable development

Speaker:

Professor (Dr.) Mousumi Mukherjee, Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, International

Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building, Executive Director, Centre for

Comparative and Global Education

Outline:

This interactive session will provide insights on academic links between India and Australia. It will

reflect on the possibilities of collaboration between India and Australia in the field of education- both at

the level of school and higher education. The session will highlight what each country can learn from

each other to achieve the global goals of sustainable development.


Rizvi, F., Barron, R.J., Mukherjee, M. & Khan, A. (2016). An Overview of Schools Education

in India and Australia. Available online: www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/publications/overview-

school-education-india-and-australia/

Rizvi, F., & Gorur, R. (2011). Collaboration in higher education: New directions for India and

Australia Retrieved from: www.australiaindiaeducation.com/collaboration-in-higher-

education.html


https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/publications/overview-school-education-india-and-australia/

https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/publications/overview-school-education-india-and-australia/

http://www.australiaindiaeducation.com/collaboration-in-higher-education.html

http://www.australiaindiaeducation.com/collaboration-in-higher-education.html

Media Law and Regulation in India

Speaker:

Professor Sukumar Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Journalism Practice and Associate

Dean (Research), Jindal School of Journalism and Communication

Outline:

Unlike in the U.S., where the First Amendment extends a measure of constitutional protection to the

“press” and in the broader reading, the “media”, the situation in India is that media freedom is derived

from the broader socially invested right to free speech. The media specifically enjoys no rights that cannot

be claimed by an individual citizen.

The history of media regulation in India could be read as a long story of seeking to establish a harmony

(or a balance) between media industry rights, citizenship rights and the compulsions of political power.

At a certain point, the right to free speech came to be seen as a counterpart to the right to information.

This tended to see the media's freedom in part, as the fulfilment of the public right to information.

This session will explore how these principles have played out in practical terms, through various phases

of the media industry’s growth, from the early days of privately owned print and a government monopoly

over broadcast, to today’s very complex milieu.

Other aspects of media law, such as libel and defamation, sedition, the protection of sources, and any

other matter of interest to the students, will also be explored.

Certain extra-legal threats to freedom of expression and the right to information, such as the politics of

the street, will also be considered. The response of the judicial system to this category of issues will be

discussed.


Ken Auletta - Citizens Jain - The New Yorker

Robin Jeffrey - India's Newspaper Revolution - Capitalism, Politics and the Indian- Language

Press

Sukumar Muralidharan - Broadcast Regulation and the Public Right to Know - Economic and

Political Weekly March 3, 2007


Site visit: Chokhi Dhani

Day 3: Friday, 11 January 2019

Australia, India and the South China Sea

Speaker:

Ms. Darshana Mozinder Baruah, Research Analyst at Carnegie Endowment for International

Peace, India

Outline:

The lecture will provide an overview of the developments in the South China Sea in the last year and its

implications on the regional power dynamics. It will discuss the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling

in July 2016 and the responses from the region. The second half of the lecture discusses India's policy

toward the South China Sea and its role as a middle power in stabilising the region.


India’s Security Imperatives in a Volatile Neighbourhood

Speaker:

Ms. Smita Sharma, Journalist-Deputy Editor, The Tribune and Columnist & TV

Commentator

Outline:

The migration of economic power from West to East has meant, among other things, that India’s future

is increasingly interlinked with the Indo-Pacific, the vast region encompassing everything from East

Africa to Japan and the South Pacific. In particular, China’s rise has important economic, trade, and

security implications for the entire region. The Trump administration is seeking to counter balance

China’s aggression with a greater role for India in the Indo-Pacific and its South Asia strategy. Can

India’s multilateral approach with stakeholders like Japan, Australia, US in the region prove effective

among disruptive trends? In an election year when South Asia has seen significant government changes

and political turmoil, where does the Modi government’s announced Neighbourhood First policy stand?

Will India be able to pull its weight on the global arena amid complexities in the immediate

neighbourhood?


Contemporary Challenges to Diplomacy

Speaker:

Ambassador (retd.) Amit Dasgupta, Director, UNSW India and India’s Former Consul-

General to Sydney

Outline:

Diplomacy, as we have known it for decades and since Westphalia, has followed a norm and indeed, a

consistency. The work of diplomats is referred to as ‘diplomatese’. There is now ‘un-ease’. How would

diplomacy achieve ‘diplomata-ease’. This ‘ease’ or the comfort arises from what is expected of a

diplomat. Today, the very culture and indeed, the norm of diplomacy has undergone a dramatic change.

This is mainly due to the introduction of ‘un-predictability’ in the equation. I believe this dramatically

changes the role of the diplomat and thus, the manner in which foreign policy and foreign relations

would be crafted. This ‘new’ diplomacy could be here to stay with powerful leaders believing that they

hold the destiny of nations and the global order in their hands. It would have dramatic implications for

the manner in which the craft of diplomacy would need to be re-crafted.


Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark: Deception; Penguin; 2007;

Kishore Mahbubani: The New Asian Hemisphere; Public Affairs, New York; 2008;

Amit Dasgupta [ed]: The Strategic Shape of the World; Sage; 2008;

Samuel Huntington: Clash of Civilizations; Touchtone Books; 2007;

Simon Sinek: Start with Why; Penguin; 2009.


Day 4: Saturday, 12 January 2019

Human rights and Development in Indian Context

Speaker:

Professor Rajeev Malhotra, Professor and Executive Director, Centre for Development and

Finance, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

Outline:

Human rights are of intrinsic as well as instrumental importance in improving development delivery and

good governance. As universally recognised values, human rights standards provide a normative basis

for development and governance agenda-setting in a society. At the same time, human rights principles

offer the means and the methodology to harness the potential development and governance outcomes for

advancing human wellbeing. The talk would explore the merit of adopting, to whatever extent, a human

rights based policy response to address issues of development and growth, including the concerns arising

from rising income and wealth inequalities and persisting social exclusion- a reality of India’s

development experience and, in fact, of the world at large in the current phase of globalisation. The talk

would analyse the macroeconomic and public goods delivery consequences of the human rights approach

to development, as it appears to be unfolding in India over the past decade and the implication that has

for its sustainability in the pursuit of social, political and economic transformation of the country.


Rajeev Malhotra, “Delivering development and good governance: Making human

rights count” (2015) 6 World Bank Legal Review


Consumption and the Rise of the Indian Middle Class

Speaker:

Professor (Dr.) Laknath Jayasinghe, Vice Dean, Jindal Global Business School and

Associate Director, Centre for India Australia Studies

Outline:

This seminar examines developments in India’s contemporary marketplaces. It outlines emerging social

and cultural patterns that underpin middle class consumption practices linked to these Indian spaces, and

considers two major forces: cultural globalisation and economic liberalisation. I argue that the patterning

of consumer taste organised through these wider forces may be opposed to--or be cycled into--local

cultural values such as the notion of frugality and vernacular rituals and customs. Strategies such as

consumer resistance and anti-consumption are discussed, and the implications for brand management

and marketing in India are proposed. The seminar aims to increase our understanding of how Indian

consumers negotiate tensions in an era of globalising marketplaces and shifting consumer identity. It

further aims to demonstrate how Indian consumers create their own sociocultural discourse(s) in this

process, which itself impacts the ways that marketplaces are understood by local consumers.


Appadurai, A. (1996). Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Askegaard, S., & Eckhardt, G. M. (2012). Glocal Yoga: Re-Appropriation in the Indian

Consumptionscape. Marketing Theory, 12 (1), 45-60.

Haynes, D. E. (2011). Masculinity, Advertising and the Reproduction of the Middle-Class

Family in Western India. In H. Donner (Ed.), Being Middle-Class in India: A Way of Life (pp.

23-46). Oxford: Routledge.

Parameswaran, A. (2014). Affirmation and Disidentification: The Labour of Performing

‘Brand India’. Performance Research, 19 (2), 54-62.

Raja, I. (2013). Can the Subaltern Eat?: Modernity, Masculinity and Consumption in the Indian

Family. South Asian History and Culture, 4 (2), 278-290.

Varman, R., & Belk, R. W. (2009). Nationalism and Ideology in an Anticonsumption

Movement. Journal of Consumer Research, 39, 1-15.

Varman, R., & Belk, R. W. (2011). Consuming postcolonial shopping malls. Journal of

Marketing Management, 28 (1-2), 62-84.

Vikas, R. M., Varman, R., & Belk, R. W. (2015). Status, Caste, and Market in a Changing

Indian Village. Journal of Consumer Research, 42 (3), 472-498.


Developments in Corporate Governance and CSR: A Legal Perspective

Speaker:

Professor Arnab Bose, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

The lecture will look into the context of corporate governance and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)

and delve into the international, national and sub-national developments. The lecture will discuss the

laws as applicable in corporate governance and CSR and its implications. One major implication will be

with respect to financial control, and the other is with respect to implementation of CSR activities. At

the end of the lecture participants will be able to appreciate the links between global and national

directives to local realities.


CSR Act and Policy in India as found in the Ministry of Finance, India:

<http://finance.bih.nic.in/documents/csr-policy.pdf>.

Performance Standards, IFC, World Bank Group:

<www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-

at-ifc/policies-standards/performance-standards>.

Handbook on CSR in India: <www.pwc.in/assets/pdfs/publications/2013/handbook-on-

corporate-social-responsibility-in-india.pdf>.


Day 5: Sunday, 13 January 2019

Site Visit: Historical Tour of Delhi

Day 6: Monday, 14 January 2019

Site Visit: Taj Mahal, Agra

http://finance.bih.nic.in/documents/csr-policy.pdf

http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/policies-standards/performance-standards

http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/policies-standards/performance-standards

http://www.pwc.in/assets/pdfs/publications/2013/handbook-on-corporate-social-responsibility-in-india.pdf

http://www.pwc.in/assets/pdfs/publications/2013/handbook-on-corporate-social-responsibility-in-india.pdf

Day 7: Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Introduction to Indian Company Law

Speaker:

Professor Arjya B. Majumdar, Associate Professor of Jindal Global Law School and

Director, Office of Academic Planning, Co-ordination and Interdisciplinary

Outline:

Company law across the world follows five basic principles – separate legal personality, limited liability,

separation of ownership and management, shared ownership and transferable ownership. India is no

different. In this session, we will look at how these five principles guide and inform the working of the

modern corporation in the Indian context. In particular, using the Tata Sons case study, we will how the

separation of ownership and management, while existing on paper, doesn’t always play out in reality.


Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman, “What is Corporate Law” (2004) Yale Law &

Economics Research Paper No. 300, available at

<www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Kraakman_643.pdf>.

Corporate Personality in India, Arjya B. Majumdar – available at

<https://ssrn.com/abstract=2256140>.


How is India Governed: An overview of Government and Public Policy in India

Speaker:

Professor Sudarshan Ramaswamy, Dean, Executive Director, Centre for Ethics, Law and

Political Economy, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

Outline:

The session will focus on the implications for policy-making of the federal nature of India’s

polity; the implications of having an asymmetrical federalism (Jammu and Kashmir are not like

other states; there are provisions for special autonomous regions; and for locations where

indigenous peoples are in a majority).


Madav Khosla, The Indian Constitution: Oxford India Short Introductions (2012), Chapter 2,

“Federalism”


Contemporary Issues in SAARC

Speaker:

Mr. Srimal Fernando, Research scholar at Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA),

India and an Global editor of Diplomatic Society for South Africa

Outline:

The South Asian region has over the years undergone different stages of transition. South Asian nations

comprising, inter alia, of eight main countries were highly dependent on trade and economics. The region

accounts to almost one fourth of the world’s population i.e. 1.5 billion people and it is made up of eight

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2256140

contiguous nations. Thus South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Regional

cooperation in South Asia among member states requires common economic commitment through

diplomatic channels. SAARC, as a regional organisation established in 1985, has been struggling to make

an impact for a long period. In South Asia, the intra-regional trade among the eight SAARC nations

accounted for only 5% of trade among member states. Politics has been one of the major hurdles in

slowing economic integration in this region. With the conceptualisation of the South Asian Free Trade

Agreements (SAFTA) in 2006, some notable changes have been witnessed in the economy and politics

of the region. This seminar seeks to explore the challenges and opportunities that SAARC currently faces.


S.D. Muni and Rajshree Jetly, “SAARC Prospects: The Changing Dimensions” S.D. Muni,

The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC (2010, Cambridge University Press), pp 1-28.

Lawrence Saez, “The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC): An

emerging collaboration architecture” (1st ed., 2011, Routledge)

o Chapter 1: “SAARC Membership and Structure”, pp 8-29.

o Chapter 4: “The Dimensions of Regional Collaboration in South Asia”, pp 71 93.

o Chapter 5: “Future Challenges”, pp. 94-110.

Saman Kelegama, “Changing Face: The Trials and Fortunes of Regional Cooperation Under

SAARC” (2015) 41 India International Centre Quarterly 33.

T. K. Jayaraman and Chee-Keong Choong, “Economic Integration in the Indian Subcontinent:

A Study of Macroeconomic Interdependence” (2012) 27(4) Journal of Economic Integration

584.



Distinguished Public Lecture: India - Australia: Unlocking the Potential

Speaker:

The Hon. Jason Clare MP, Shadow Minister for Trade and Investment and Shadow Minister

for Resources and Northern Australia

Introduction to Indian Constitution Law

Speaker:

Professor Khagesh Gautam, Associate Professor, Assistant Dean, Jindal Global Law School

and Assistant Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence

Outline:

This seminar will discuss the broad framework of the Indian constitution and the law concerning

elections in India, including: (1) The right to vote is not a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution.

But still the democratic and republican nature of the Indian Constitution has been held to be a part of the

basic structure. After an introductory discussion on the Basic Structure Doctrine, the seminar will discuss

the right to vote in India. (2) The silecture will also cover some ground about the problem of corruption

in Indian elections and how a Supreme Court decision struck down an important legal provision that was

the root of the problem.


PUCL v. Union of India, also known as the NOTA (None of the Above) Case;

Lily Thomas v. Union of India


Key Macro Indicators and Changes in the Indian Economy

Speaker:

Professor Deepanshu Mohan, Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean and Assistant Director,

Centre on International Economic Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs

Outline:

The seminar will provide a bird eye’s view on trends in India’s macro-economic performance across key

economic and socio-economic indicators since 1990s. The discussions will feature both: (a) a detailed

investigation on India’s macro-economic performance including an analysis of diverse set of socio-

economic indicators (say, trends in employment levels, gender-based development indicators, social

progress indices etc.); and (b) the economic reforms that have been undertaken since the 1990s that

culminated into some of the trends observed in part (a) of our discussion.

This background conversation involving some of the empirical observations made in India’s economic

performance, shall further emphasise on the need for few key policy interventions (involving state and

non-state actors) that can be considered relevant for improving upon India’s current state of the economy.

Our discussion on economic reforms and their long-term prospects, will also cover indicative references

to some recent macro-policy announcements of demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST)

and discuss their impact on India’s economy.


Book: Arvind Panagariya, “Phase V: Triumph of Liberalization (1988-2006)” in Arvind

Panagariya, India: The Emerging Giant (2008), Chapter 5.

Research Paper: Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, “Market Failure and Government Failure” (1990)

4(3) Journal of Economic Perspectives

Additional Articles

o On Employment Conundrums:

www.thequint.com/blogs/2017/08/19/macro-employment-policy-conundrums-

analysing-indian-economy-at-71

o On Demonetization (and its impact):

https://thewire.in/159430/urban-informal-markets-demonetisation/

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/across-the-aisle-

demonetisation-a-proof-of-the-pudding-4825883/

o On GST:

https://thewire.in/119992/arithmetic-behind-indias-goods-services-tax-gst/

www.livemint.com/Opinion/fPw6F2eK8h6RgOcMZj8x7L/GST-The-first-

100-days.html

https://qz.com/india/1401357/indias-high-gdp-growth-is-hiding-an-unemployment-crisis/


India and Society

Speaker:

Professor (Dr.) Vanessa Chishti, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

This seminar will discuss aspects of cultural difference and social hierarchy in India, particularly the

politics of religious and caste identity. The method will be broadly comparative. Students will be

encouraged to think about experiences and categories that are familiar to them, and explore how far they

http://www.thequint.com/blogs/2017/08/19/macro-employment-policy-conundrums-analysing-indian-economy-at-71

http://www.thequint.com/blogs/2017/08/19/macro-employment-policy-conundrums-analysing-indian-economy-at-71

https://thewire.in/159430/urban-informal-markets-demonetisation/

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/across-the-aisle-demonetisation-a-proof-of-the-pudding-4825883/

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/across-the-aisle-demonetisation-a-proof-of-the-pudding-4825883/

https://thewire.in/119992/arithmetic-behind-indias-goods-services-tax-gst/

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/fPw6F2eK8h6RgOcMZj8x7L/GST-The-first-100-days.html

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/fPw6F2eK8h6RgOcMZj8x7L/GST-The-first-100-days.html

https://qz.com/india/1401357/indias-high-gdp-growth-is-hiding-an-unemployment-crisis/

can make the Indian context intelligible. Some of the questions we will engage with during this seminar

include:

In what ways are practices of caste and racial discrimination different and alike?

How do the experiences of first nation peoples or ‘tribals’ or indigenous populations compare in

Australia and India?

How are manifestations of social cleavages - like class and gender - in the two countries similar

and alike?


Surinder S. Jodhka, Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions (Oxford, 2012), Chapters 2, 3 & 5

Uma Chakravarti, Gender Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (Stree, 2006), Chapters 1, 2 & 9



Site visit to the Supreme Court of India

Site visit to Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Roundtable discussion with corporate lawyers


Gender Relations in Contemporary India

Speaker:

Professor Nisha Nair, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Law and

Humanities, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

The question of gender relations in contemporary India is a rather complex question. This seminar will

focus on the aspect of how patriarchy operates in contemporary Indian society leading to women’s

subordination and oppression. In this regard, the seminar will focus on the issue of violence against

women by particularly looking at female foeticide and violence within the family. The seminar will also

focus on how gender hierarchies are normalised and perpetuated in India. The seminar will further bring

forth the strategies adopted by the women’s movement in India to engage with the issue of violence

against women, especially in the context of legal frameworks and reforms.

Recommended Reading:

Avanish Bhai Patel, “Crises in Female Existence: Female Foeticide and Infanticide in India”

(2013) 6(4) International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory 235-241

Arpita Banerjee and Ranjita Biswas, “Globalization and Violence against Women: The Missing

Girls of India” (2016) 28(1) Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 30


India’s Role in Asia-Pacific

Speaker:

Professor (Dr). Pankaj Jha, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs

Outline:

With the onset of second phase of Look East Policy (LEP) and now the “Act East Policy”, the whole of

East Asia and Oceania now comprise its extended neighbourhood. While India’s LEP matured in due

course of time both in terms of economic engagement and strategic partnerships, but its approach towards

many Asia-Pacific nations lacked the same vigour. It was not very apparent that whether India has the

political will and the required material capabilities to project power into western pacific beyond

Singapore. This clearly signifies the expectant role, but India has constrained itself in undertaking larger

global responsibilities because of the limited resources and it weighed larger geo-strategic dynamics

before undertaking any larger role. Primarily, the policy concentrated on building capabilities through

education, vocational training and human resource development while, at the same time, espousing the

cause of development cooperation and regional multilateralism. With the incremental growth of its

economic and increasing international clout, India undertook calibrated measures through political,

defence, economic and cultural initiatives to promote its soft power and as a result it is looking for a

large proactive role in the Asia-Pacific. This role transcends different spheres of engagement such as

political interactions, economic integration, defence diplomacy and multilateral engagement through

institutional mechanisms.


Jagannath P. Panda, “India and New Institutions in Asia-Pacific: Responding to China and the

United States” (2015/2016) mémo OBSERVATOIRE CHINE

Sandy Gordon, “India’s Rise as an Asia–Pacific Power Rhetoric and Reality” (May 2012)

Australian Strategic Policy Institute 1

David Scott, “India and the South Pacific: Fiji, PIF, IPIC and the China Connection”

Tevita Motulalo, “India’s Strategic Imperative in the South Pacific” (October 2013) Gateway

House Report 1


Steel City Development in India: An Overview of the Development of Jamshedpur and Rourkela

Speaker:

Professor Arup Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

Founded in 1907, Jamshedpur (or Tatanagar) was a grand experiment in naming and planning a steel city

on the lines of a family heritage, founded on global principles of urban planning. Rourkela, on the other

hand, was the site of the first public sector steel plant, in 1955, based on the principles of a secular state

that believed in steel plants as the ‘temples’ of modernization and industrialization. This talk explores

the inherent links in ideology and town planning between the two steel cities, while discussing the social

impact of the two, unpacking ideologies of organic growth, garden city planning, and displacement of

native population, in and around Tatanagar and Rourkela, respectively.


Amita Sinha, “Jamshedpur: Planning an Ideal Steel City in India On behalf of: Society for

American City and Regional Planning History” (2011) Journal of Planning History Rajkishor Meher, “The social and ecological effects of industrialisation in a tribal region: The

case of the Rourkela Steel Plant” Contributions to Indian Sociology


CSI: Forensics in Practice

Speaker:

Professor Poulomi Bhadra, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Jindal Institute of

Behavioural Sciences



Free Time

Day 12: Sunday, 20 January 2018

Free Time


Site visit to Industry & Travel from JGU


Site visit to Industry

Day 16: Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Site visit to Industry & Travel to JGU


Introduction to Competition Law in India

Speaker:

Mr. Prateek Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

This course will aim to serve as an introduction to the regulation of competitive behaviour in the Indian

economy and the economic analysis that informs that regulation. The focus will be on Indian competition

law/policy, as embodied in the Competition Act, 2002 (“Act”). Competition law primarily regulates three

areas of conduct. These areas of conduct are: i) anticompetitive agreements (e.g. a cartel of firms engaged

in price-fixing or other collusive activities, or anti-competitive supply-distribution agreements); ii)

conduct in abuse of a firm’s dominant position directed at excluding competitors or exploiting consumers

in the market (e.g. a dominant firm engaging at predatory pricing or denial of market access); and iii) the

regulation of mergers that, if consummated, would lead to an appreciable adverse effect on competition.

While other areas exist, this course will focus on these broad types of conduct. The course will also deal

with additional criteria for a finding of such anti-competitive conduct, such as definition of relevant

market, agreements, and dominant enterprises. The objective of the course is to provide an introduction

to the contemporary antitrust regulatory environment and compare it with that of Australia.


Shaun Star (ed), Australia and India: A Comparative Overview of the Law and Legal Practice

(Universal Law Publishing, 2016), Chapters 7 and 8


An Introduction to Criminal Procedure in India

Speaker:

Mr. Sarim Naved, Partner SNP Advocates & Solicitors, property law, employment law,

dispute resolution and corporate criminal liability


Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Law in India

Speaker:

Professor Danish Sheikh, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Associate Director,

Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology

Outline:

This session will examine the ways in which the Indian legal system impacts the lives of lesbian, gay,

bisexual and transgender persons. We will look at three frames in particular: criminalization,

discrimination and recognition and look at how LGBT lives intersect with the law across all three.


Danish Sheikh - A Tale of Two Judgments - LGBTQ Policy Journal

MSJE Trans Report

Danish Sheikh - Yale Human Rights Journal The Road to Decriminalization - Vol 16 Issue 1

Yale Human Rights and Development Journal



A Journey into Civil Procedure Law In India: Are You Ready For The Adventure?

Speaker:

Professor Avani Bansal, Adjunct Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Advocate,

Supreme Court of India

Outline:

This talk will provide an overall structure to understand the procedural laws that govern civil laws in

India. With the Civil Procedural Code, 1908 as the lynchpin, we will explore some interesting facets of

a civil case's journey in India: courts' jurisdiction, procedural steps through a civil case, evidence,

pleadings, foreign judgments, parties to a civil case amongst others. The idea behind this talk is to provide

the students a basic understanding of the civil procedural law, appreciate its complexities, and enquire

into its strengths and weaknesses.


The Civil Procedure Code, 1908.

(https://indiacode.nic.in/acts/8.%20Code%20of%20Civil%20Procedure,%201908.pdf)


https://indiacode.nic.in/acts/8.%20Code%20of%20Civil%20Procedure,%201908.pdf

Sensitising & Analytical Course on the Complexities of Global Climate Change Governance (with a

focus on a developing country perspective)

Speaker:

Professor Kshitij Bansal, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, Assistant Director,

The Office of International Affairs and Global Initiatives, OP Jindal Global University

Outline:

This course will have two specific learning outcomes for the students. First, they will be introduced to

the current state of affairs in the global climate change discourse, from scientific, political and socio-

economic aspects. Second, they will be introduced to the interplay of legalities, policy-level challenges,

economic ideologies and cultural underpinnings that make the climate change governance a hugely

complex proposition. The intention of the course will be to provoke analytical thinking amongst

attendees on how their respective contributions can be made to this complex governance set up as

Australia’s future leaders. Importantly, the intention will be to inspire them to think of practical,

achievable tools and goals for climate change mitigation at a policy level instead of engaging in just a

rhetorical advocacy. The complete discussion of the course will involve a special emphasis on the

developing country perspective.

The course will begin with a discussion on the latest 2018 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change (IPCC) that has brought out mind-boggling and hope shattering predictions. The second

part of the session will derive its content from established literature on different aspects of climate change

governance. Concluding part of the session may involve a group activity to internalise the learnings from

the session.


IPCC Report Summary: https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

Brookings Report titled “The undiplomatic action: a practical guide to the new politics

and geopolitics of climate change” available at www.brookings.edu/research/undiplomatic-

action-a-practical-guide-to-the-new-politics-and-geopolitics-of-climate-change/



Contemporary issues in Global Climate Change

Speaker:

Professor Dr. Anish Vanaik, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Outline:

The most important phenomenon of the political history of contemporary India is the rise of an aggressive

majoritarianism. A nation that portrays itself as the world’s largest democracy, is now regularly included

in lists of countries (like Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Brazil) where authoritarian strong men rule. How

might we understand this paradox of authoritarianism within democracy? The Indian answer to that

question demands an understanding of how contemporary politics relates to some of the deeper structures

of Indian society and economy. This is the terrain we'll be exploring in this module.


Aijaz Ahmad, 'India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme Right'

(http://indianculturalforum.in/2016/09/07/india-liberal-democracy-and-the-extreme-right/ )

https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

https://www.brookings.edu/research/undiplomatic-action-a-practical-guide-to-the-new-politics-and-geopolitics-of-climate-change/

https://www.brookings.edu/research/undiplomatic-action-a-practical-guide-to-the-new-politics-and-geopolitics-of-climate-change/

http://indianculturalforum.in/2016/09/07/india-liberal-democracy-and-the-extreme-right/

Uma Chakravarty, 'Caste and Gender in Contemporary India' from Gendering Caste (pp. 139-

171)


Republic Day Ceremony

Australian Day Ceremony


India and Australia: Lessons and Reflections from India Immersion Programme

Speaker:

Professor (Dr.) Laknath Jayasinghe, Vice Dean, Jindal Global Business School and

Associate Director, Centre for India Australia Studies

Outline:

This seminar will be an interaction discussion and reflection on the experiences of the India Immersion

Programme and the lessons learnt throughout. It seeks to summarise the key learning outcomes from the

India Immersion Programme, from the perspective of the students, and discuss the site visits and cultural

immersion experiences in conjunction with the seminars.


Departure

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