B. S. Chimni

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B. S. Chimni (Bhupinder S. Chimni) is a legal scholar and academic who is presently distinguished professor of international law member at Jindal Global Law School. [1] His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee law. He has been chairperson of the Centre for International Legal Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He had a 2+12-year stint as vice chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at the International Center for Comparative Law and Politics, Tokyo University, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, and a visiting scholar at the Refugee Studies Center, York University, Canada.

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He served as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period from 1996 to 2000. He is on the editorial board of several national and international journals like Indian Journal of International Law, International Studies, International Refugee Studies, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and Refugee Survey Quarterly. Chimni is part of a group of scholars who self-identify as the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholars.

Early life and education

BS Chimni has his education in India. He had his LL.B. degree from Panjab University, LL.M. from Bombay University and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. [2] He retired from Jawaharlal Nehru University on 31 June 2017. [3]

He is an associate member of Institut de Droit International since 2011, [4] and a Member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. [5] He was Fellow in Nantes Institute for Advanced Study from October 2018 to March 2019 working on 'Pathways to the Future: International Law and Global Justice'. [6] Since 2019, he is Distinguished Professor of International Law and Member of the Law School Doctoral Committee at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University. [7] [8]

Lectures

He also gave the keynote lecture at the British Academy as part of The Refugee Problem & the Problem of Refugees Conference.

In 1999 he delivered the first Barbara Harrell-Bond Lecture at Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University. In March 2006, at the centennial annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, Chimni delivered the Grotius Lectures, titled "A Just World Under Law: a View from the South." In January 2008, he gave the State of Forced Migration Studies address at the 11th biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration in Cairo. In February 2010, he delivered lecture to the Asian–African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO)Training Program: Basic Course on the World Trade Organization with his JNU's centre and school colleagues, such as Dr. V. G. Hegde, Dr. Archna Negi at AALCO Permanent Headquarters, New Delhi, India.

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References

  1. "Prof. (Dr.) B.S Chimni |". 13 September 2019.
  2. Chimni, B. S. (2010). "10 x 10". International Journal of Constitutional Law. 8 (3): 437–444. doi: 10.1093/icon/moq019 .
  3. @mamidala90 (1 April 2017). "With Prof B.S. Chimni, JNU who retired on 31 March 2017 after decades of distinguished service. JNU wishes him heal…" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  4. "Chimni Bhupinder – Institut de Droit International".
  5. "Bhupinder CHIMNI - Fellows - Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation".
  6. "Bhupinder CHIMNI - Fellows - Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation".
  7. "3 former VCS to teach law at O.P. Jindal Global University".
  8. "Prof. (Dr.) B.S Chimni |". 13 September 2019.
  9. Chimni, B. S. (2017). International Law and World Order. doi:10.1017/9781107588196. ISBN   9781107588196.
Preceded by Vice Chancellor of NUJS
2003–2006
Succeeded by