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Bipin Adhikari is a Nepalese constitutional law expert and a professor of law at Kathmandu University School of Law. Adhikari has written and edited various articles and books on constitutional law, human rights, and the rule of law.
Adhikari was born in Bastipur in the Lahan Municipality of the Madhesh Province of Nepal. He graduated from Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu in 1985 with a Bachelor of Law. Adhikari earned a Master of Comparative Law, with a focus on corporate management and law, from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 1991 and then went on to earn a PhD in constitutional law in 2001. [1] Prior to being awarded his PhD, Adhikari received the Chevening Scholarship at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, where he studied international business and finance law.
In 2009, Adhikari was one of the chief authors of the model constitution submitted to the Constituent Assembly of Nepal following the Nepalese Civil War. [2] He frequently opines on constitutional issues of the day, including citizenship, [3] constitutional role of the president [4] and prime minister, [5] and government formation. [6]
Adhikari is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court Bar Association [7] and a member of the Constitution Watch Group, a network of independent experts committed to the Constitution of Nepal and its institutionalization. [8] He is also a board member of the University of Nepal's Development Board. [9] [10]
In December 2013, Adhikari established the School of Law as the seventh school at Kathmandu University, a non-governmental public university. [11] [12] The School of Law focused on four interdisciplinary programs at the intersection of law, economics, and management. [13]
Adhikari has worked for various United Nations entities: United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations peacekeeping missions. [14]
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