JGLS Appoints 12 Corporate Firm Partners as Honorary Adjunct Professors of Law & Professors of Corporate Legal Practice

This is in addition to the ten distinguished Senior Advocates of the Supreme Court who have been appointed as the Honorary Adjunct Professors of Law and Distinguished Professors of Legal Practice at JGLS, recently.

As per a press note issued in this behalf, JGLS has appointed following 12 Corporate Partners to teach 11 Specialised Courses:

• Ms. Alina Arora, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas— She will teach The Art and Science of Corporate Negotiations: M&A Transactions and Deal-Making
• Ms. Vanita Bhargava, Partner, Khaitan & Co.— She will teach Law and Practice of Environmental Litigation
• Mr. Mohit Gogia, Partner, S&R Associates— He will teach Transactional Mergers and Acquisitions
• Ms. Gowree Gokhale, Partner, Nishith Desai Associates— She will teach Digital Law: The Way Forward
• Mr. Tejas Karia, Partner and Head, Arbitration Practice, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas— He will teach Practical Aspects of Arbitration
• Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran, Founder and Managing Partner, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan Associates— He will teach Source of Power for Taxation under the Constitution of India: Emergence of Cooperative Federalism
• Ms. Chandrima Mitra, Partner, DSK Legal— She will teach Media and Entertainment Law in India
• Mr. Siddharth Nair, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas— He will teach The Anatomy of Venture Capital Transactions
• Mr. Gautam Narasimhan, Partner, Allen & Overy, Singapore— He will teach International Finance and Comparative Banking Law
• Mr. Suhail Nathani, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Economic Laws Practice— He will teach Competition Law and Practice
• Mr. Prakash Raja Segaran, Partner, Allen & Overy, Singapore – He will teach International Finance and Comparative Banking Law

Each Honorary Adjunct Professors will teach a 1-credit course on an advanced area of corporate law and practice. These courses will span over a period of 8 weeks starting from 5^th September 2020 (the Teachers' Day). The courses will be open to the III, IV and V year students of B.A. LL.B. (Hons) and B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons), the students of II and III year of LL.B. and the students of LL.M.

The move is a part of India's First "Corporate Lawyering Advancement through Immersion & Mentoring" (CLAIM) Programme of JGLS.

This Programme aims to connect theory to practice in response to the problem of "disconnect" that many new entrants to the legal profession face. Through the broader framework of participative pedagogy, the CLAIM Programme creates the opportunity for students to apply their knowledge real-time, thereby enhancing their ingenuity and heuristic skills that are much needed in professional legal practice. The CLAIM Programme broadens the scope of legal education from knowledge oriented-curriculum to the tools and processes of legal practice with a view to empowering the graduates of JGLS to become knowledgeable legal professionals as they enter the world of corporate legal practice.

The vision of this pathbreaking initiative, according to Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University and Dean, Jindal Global Law School is to "to identify some of the most outstanding corporate lawyers and partners of the leading corporate law firms to teach courses on relevant areas of corporate legal practice to the students of law, with a view to educating and inspiring them. The larger purpose of this effort is to instill in the minds of law students an imagination to become part of corporate legal practice and better equip them with knowledge, skills and perspectives to take up successful careers in law firms and corporations in the future. I am grateful to the 12 outstanding corporate partners of the most reputed law firms in India and abroad who have consented to teach these courses, including two inspiring leaders, who are also founders and Managing Partners of reputed Indian law firms, Mr. Lakshmikumaran and Mr. Suhail Nathani".