Azim Premji

University

LL.M. IN LAW AND DEVELOPMENT (2022-23)

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME
Developing Leaders for Social Change
Why an LL.M. in Why an LL.M. at
Law & Development? Azim Premji University?
The LL.M. in Law and Development is a unique Programme Objectives:
programme designed to impart interdisciplinary and
1. Creation of a diverse cohort of academically
critical approaches to understanding the domains of law,
proficient and socially engaged scholarsand
society and development in India. A distinct aspect of the
practitioners of law.
programme is the equal emphasis on conceptual,
doctrinal and empirical skills; integrating them in Public
2. Introducing students to debates on the significance
and Private law subjects. The interdisciplinary and
and role of legal institutions.
critical approaches combine elements of law, social
sciences, and public policy; thereby enabling students to
3. Enabling students to critically engage with the
make more meaningful inquiries into ideas that are
possibility and the means of using law for positive
grounded, informed and socially relevant.
social change.
Another distinct feature of the programme is its focus on
institutionalism. The programme aims to provide a
textured understanding of how law and legal institutions
operate in Indian society. Students will have
opportunities to appreciate the significance of such an
institutional approach in responding to contemporary
problems in social policy.
Programme Structure
Component Semester I Semester 2

Law and Justice in a Comparative Public Law/Systems of

Globalising World (4 Credits) Governance (4 Credits)

Law and Development Elective Course 2

Taught Courses (4 Credits) (3 Credits)
(Core and Elective)
Research Methods and Legal Elective Course 3
Writing (4 Credits) (3 Credits)

Elective Course 1 (3 Credits) Elective Course 1 (3 Credits)

Field Practice Law & Policy Hub Group Field Project

(Runs across the length of the programme) (4 Credits)

Internship (4 weeks during the winter break) (2 Credits)

Dissertation (Runs across the length of the programme) (5 Credits)

Total Number of Credits = 4 * 4 (Core courses) + 3 * 3 (Elective courses) + 5

(Dissertation) + 4 (Law Policy Hub field Project) + 2 (Internship) = 36
Field Practice dissertation helps in evolving and sharpening a variety of
writing and analysis skills.
The field practice in the programme comprises of two
components: a Law and Policy Hub group project It also includes intense engagement with a theme, identifying
conducted through the year; and, an individual internship a research problem and devising methods and instruments of
of four weeks. The Law and Policy Hub group project data, and evidence relevant to the thesis.
provides an opportunity for law graduates to engage with
first-year students of the MA in Public Policy and
Governance programme and to pursue empirically driven Pedagogy and Classroom Ethos
research into a theme that lies at the intersection of law The ethos of learning at Azim Premji University places
and policy. This project has close handholding and
emphasis on collaborative, constructive and reflexive
supervision process by a dedicated team of faculty and has
approaches to teaching. Classes are conducted in an
a requirement of 21 days of focused field work.
interactive way and students are expected to actively engage
In addition, the students are required to undergo an and participate in discussions. Each student will have the
relevant internship of four weeks, which is assessed by opportunity to bring her own perspective on assigned
a faculty advisor.
readings to such discussions. Classrooms are conceived as
spaces for creative thinking and
Dissertation critical engagement.

All LL.M. students are required to write a thesis under

FACULTY
Anshuman Singh holds an Sitharamam Kakarala holds an
LL.M. from National Law LL.M. from Nottingham
University, Delhi. He teaches University and Ph.D. from Centre
courses on Research for Social Studies. He teaches
Methods, Law and Social courses on Research Methods,
Transformation, Law and Human Rights and
Literature, and Law Politics Development, and Technology
and Popular Culture. His and Human Rights. His research
research interests include interests include
areas of intersections interdisciplinary legal studies,
between jurisprudence and legal and political theory, human
orthodox Marxism. rights law, technology and
human rights, comparative
constitutionalism and legal
education in India.

Neeraj Grover holds an LL.M. from National University of

Singapore. He teaches courses on Foundations of Private
Law, Law and Development, and Comparative Corporate
Governance. His research interests include conflict of laws,
corporate governance, contracts and international
commercial arbitration.

A. Narayana holds a Ph.D. from Shrimoyee Ghosh holds a Ph.D. from

University of Sussex. He teaches Jawaharlal Nehru University and LL.M.
a range of core and elective from the School of Law, Birkbeck
courses on state, policy, and University. Her teaching and research
governance. His research interests are located within Law and
interests include regional Society, and Legal Anthropology and
politics, land governance, Ethnography. In this context, she
local governance and focuses on the questions of rights,
electronic governance. justice and political violence.
FACULTY
Abhay Raj holds an LL.M. from Vishnupad holds a Ph.D. from
Yale University. He teaches Columbia University, New York.
courses on Law and Justice in a He teaches courses on Everyday
Globalising World, and Modern State and Law,
Environmental Justice. His Nationalism and Capitalism.
research interests include, His research interests include
justice education, ecological and political anthropology, law,
environmental studies, law, media and political theology,
technology and ethics. and secularism.

Siddharth Swaminathan holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from

Claremont Graduate University. He teaches courses on Research
Design and Inferential Methods. His research interests include
urban citizenship, public opinion, and political demography.

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a cultural Srikrishna Ayyangar holds a

studies scholar and film historian. Ph.D. from Maxwell School at
He teaches the course on Syracuse University. He teaches
Transformation of Citizenship in courses on Public Policy,
India. His research interests include Implementation Theory and
digitisation and governance. Comparative Politics. His
research interests include
populism theory in India and
elsewhere, implementation
studies and on governance.
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(Canada) and Humboldt University (Germany)

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