Profile

Present Position: Serving as Professor of Law w.e.f. 26 June 2013 to the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

Present Academic Grade Level: 14

Educational Qualifications: Ph.D. (Law), LL.M. LL.B. B. Sc.

Teaching Subjects: International Environmental Law (LL.M.), Environmental Law (LL.B.), Water Law, Agricultural Law

Successful PhD Supervision (NUJS)

    1. Ms. Kuhumita Laha (year of Registration-2013) PhD Title- "International Law on Protection and Preservation of Wetlands and India's Response: An Analysis" (award of PhD degree in June 2020).

    2. Ms. Shelley Ghosh (year of Registration-2013) PhD Title- "Enviro-Ethics of Environmental Jurisprudence- Anthropocentrism versus Ecocentrism" (award of PhD degree in January, 2019).

    3. Ms. Mahasweta Sengupta (year of Registration-2012) PhD Title- "The Legal Issues And Challenges Relating To The Clean Energy Sector In India" (award of PhD degree in December, 2018).

    4. Mr. Shounak Chatterjee (year of Registration-2012) PhD Title- "Creation And Enforcement Of Mortgages In India: Issues And Roadmap For The Future With Special Reference To Banks And Financial Institutions" (award of PhD degree in October, 2018).

PhD Viva Voce Examiner (External)

    1. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Subhra Bakul Karmakar taken at Google meet of the Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, on Oct 2020

    2. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Ratul Chandra Saikia taken at Google meet of Gauhati University (GU), Law Department, on Oct 2020

    3. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Pratim Sarkar taken at Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, on Dec 2019

    4. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Mr. Atul Kumar Dubey taken at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Law Department, in April 2019

    5. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Atasi Ray Khaskel taken at Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, on Nov 2018

    6. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Maushree Basistha taken at Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, on July 2018

    7. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Rajib Hassan taken at Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, on July 2018

    8. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Partha Sarathi Adhya taken at Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, on April 2018

    9. Ph. D. Viva Voce of Vikas Bhati taken at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU), Lucknow, November 2017

    10. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty taken at North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, on April 2017

    11. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Satarupa Ghosh taken at North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, on January 2016

    12. Ph.D. Viva Voce of Amiya Kumar Sahu at Berhampur University (BU), Law Department, February 2012

PhD Thesis Examiner (External)

    1. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Ananya Ghosal of Burdwan University (BU) Law Department, Burdwan, July 2020

    2. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Kamal Yash Sahwal of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Law Department, Varanasi, June 2020

    3. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Ratul Chandra Saikia of Gauhati University (GU) Law Department, Gauhati, February 2020

    4. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Subhra Bakul Karmakar of Burdwan University (BU) Law Department, Burdwan, February 2020

    5. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Pratim Sarkar of Burdwan University (BU) Law Department, Burdwan, September 2019

    6. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Atul Kumar Dubey of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Law Department, Varanasi, October 2018

    7. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Soma Dey Sarkar of North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, October 2018

    8. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Atasi Ray Khaskel of Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, July 2018

    9. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Rajib Hassan of Burdwan University (BU), Law Department, July 2018

    10. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Sharita Sharma of North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, June 2018

    11. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Sangeeta Chatterjee of North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, April 2018

    12. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Dipankar Debnath of North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, April 2018

    13. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Pukhraj Agarwal of North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, April 2018

    14. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Fardin Mohammadi of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Law Department, Varanasi, August 2017

    15. Ph. D. Thesis examiner of Vikas Bhati of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU), Lucknow, June 2017

    16. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Ripon Bhattacharjee of North Bengal University (NBU), Law Department, 2016

    17. Ph.D. Thesis examiner of Kiran Kumar Pradhan of Berhampur University (BU), Law Department, January 2012

Question Moderation (External)

    1. JIS University on 10.07.2020

    2. JIS University on 12.06.2020

    3. JIS University on 14.10.2019

    4. JIS University on 06.09.2019

    5. JIS University on 07.05.2019

    6. JIS University on 12.11.2018

MPhil thesis examiner (External)

    1. M.Phil Thesis examiner, Sikkim Central University, Law Department, May 2016

MPhil Viva Voce (External)

    1. M.Phil Thesis, Sikkim Central University, May 2017

LLM Dissertation examiner (External)

    1. LLM. Dissertation Examiner, Amity University, Kolkata, May 2018

    2. LLM. Dissertation Examiner, Amity University, Kolkata, May 2016

Successful LLM Dissertation Supervision (NUJS)

Selection Committee Member (External)

    1. Selection Committee Meeting, Teacher’s selection, Kingston Law College, Online Meeting Kolkata, 29 September, 2020

    2. Selection Committee Meeting, Teacher’s selection, Kingston Law College, Online Meeting Kolkata, 21 September, 2020

    3. Selection Committee Meeting, Teacher’s selection, Kingston Law College, Madhyamgram Kolkata, November, 2019

    4. Selection Committee Tezpur Central University, November, 2019

    5. Selection Committee JIS University, Kolkata, July, 2019

    6. Selection Committee Meeting, Teacher’s selection, Kingston Law College, Barasat Kolkata, July, 2019

    7. Selection Committee, NUJS Guest Faculty Appointment, July, 2019

    8. Selection Committee Meeting, Teacher’s selection, Kingston Law College, Madhyamgram Kolkata, October, 2018

    9. Selection Committee Meeting, PhD Candidate, JIS University, October, 2018

    10. Selection Committee Meeting, Judicial Officer, Tripura High Court, August 2018

    11. Selection Committee Meeting, Teacher’s selection,Kingston Law College, Barasat Kolkata, August, 2018

    12. Selection Committee Member (Legal), Coal India Ltd. Kolkata, July-August 2017

    13. Selection Committee Tezpur Central University-2016

    14. Selection Committee JIS University, Kolkata-2016

    15. Selection Committee JIS University, Kolkata-2015

Board of Studies Meeting

    1. PGBS meeting Dept. of Law, Burdwan University 28/08/2020

    2. BoS meeting on August 2020 at JIS University

    3. PGBS meeting Dept. of Law, Burdwan University 28/05/2020

    4. Bos meeting May 2019 at Sikkim Central University

    5. BoS meeting on April 2019 at JIS University

    6. BoS on February 2019 at JIS University

    7. BoS on December 2018 at JIS University

    8. Bos meeting May 2018 at Sikkim Central University

    9. Bos meeting May 2017 at Sikkim Central University

Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

  1. Special meeting of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) on September 27, 2019

  2. Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) meeting on September 6, 7 & 8, 2019

  3. Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) meeting on August 21st & 22nd of August 2019

ADMINISTRATIVE/ACADEMIC DUTIES

Present position (outside NUJS)

  1. External Expert, Research Advisory Committee (RAC), Bankura University, 2019-20

  2. External Expert, LLB Syllabus Review Committee, Bankura University 01.05.2019 for 2018-19

  3. External Expert of Post-graduate Studies in Law, Burdwan University from 22.04.2019

  4. External Member, Board of Moderators, Bankura University 26.04.2019 for 2018-19

  5. Attended Moderation Committee Meeting, JIS University, Kolkata, Nov 2018

  6. Attended as Member, Board of Studies (Law) meeting, JIS University, Kolkata, July 2018

  7. Attended as Member, Board of Studies (Law) meeting, Sikkim Central University, May 2018

  8. Member, Board of Studies (Law), Amity University, Kolkata, 2016 till date

  9. Member, Board of Studies (Law), Sikkim Central University, Gangtok, 2016 till date

  10. Member, Feasibility Committee to start 3 year LL.B. course at North Bengal University (NBU), April 2016

  11. Member (Legal), Committee on Commercial Utilization of Bioresources of West Bengal Biodiversity Board, 2015 till date.

  12. Member, Board of Studies (Law), JIS University, Kolkata, 2015 till date


Present position (NUJS)


  1. Member, Admission Committee, September 2020

  2. Member, Academic Programme Committee w.e.f. 01.11.2019

  3. Member, Committee on Medal Qualification, 22.10.2019

  4. Member, Building Committee NUJS, w.e.f. 03.09.2019

  5. Convenor, Sub-Committee, Academic Council for revising Regulation of LLB & LLM dated 09.08.2019

  6. Member, Committee for framing of Rules concerning Moderation of Marks from 11.07.2019

  7. Member, Committee to look into Abuse by Caste name. from 12.07.2019

  8. Chairman, Moderation Committee, Question Paper from 11.07.2019

  9. Member, IQAC from 11.07.2019

  10. Sub-Committee, Academic Council, NUJS to report on University Review Commission (URC) concern on academic matters. Constituted on 22.01.2019.

  11. Member, Hostel Committee, NUJS, July 2018 till now

  12. Member, Admission Committee, June 2018 till now

  13. Chairperson, Under Graduate Council, NUJS, from 18.6.2018

  14. Member, Procurement Committee, NUJS, from 18.6.2018 till now

  15. Member of the Centre of Post Graduate Legal Studies (CPGLS), w.e.f 2017

  16. Member, Faculty Board (FB) from 2009 till date.

  17. Head – School of technology law and development. w.e.f. 2007

  18. Chairperson – Intellectual property technology law society (IPTLS), w.e.f. 2007

  19. Chairperson – Society for the Protection and Promotion of Environment (SPPE), w.e.f. 2006


Previous Positions

  1. Member, Research Advisory Committee, NUJS July 2018 to August 2020

  2. Chairman, Core Committee of Admission, June 2018

  3. Member, Admission Committee, June 2018

  4. Chairperson, Under Graduate Council, NUJS, from 18.6.2018

  5. Chairperson, Moderation Committee (Marks), NUJS, from 18.6.2018

  6. Member, Procurement Committee, NUJS, from 18.6.2018

  7. Member, Advisory Committee, NUJS Review Commission, September 2017

  8. Member of the Centre of Post Graduate Legal Studies (CPGLS), w.e.f 2017

  9. Member, Anti-Ragging Squad, June, 2017

  10. Member, Academic Council, NUJS wef December 05, 2014

  11. Member, Moderation Committee wef August 30, 2013

  12. Member, Doctoral Committee wef August 30, 2013 till 2018

  13. Faculty Advisor to Student Juridical Association (SJA) w.e.f. August 7, 2012 till May 2018

  14. Member, Admission Committee, 2017

  15. Member, State Level Sub-Committee in the line of National Court Management System, High Court, Kolkata wef 18.12.2013 till March 2018.

  16. Chairperson, subcommittee of the academic Council, August 2016

  17. Member, Under Graduate Council, wef June 20, 2014 till 2016

  18. Convenor, Medal Committee, Convocation , February 2014

  19. Member, Scholarship Committee, September 5, 2013

  20. Member, Tender Committee wef August 30, 2013 till 2016

  21. Member, Academic Council, MNLU wef January 24, 2015 till March 2016

  22. Chairman, Under Graduate Council, wef August 7, 2013 till 20.06.2014

  23. Faculty advisor – Nature Committee, NUJS, w.e.f. 2005 to 2013

  24. Member - of the Sub Group (Under the Working Group on Water Governance) on Legal issues related to Ground Water Management and regulation, including the strengthening of the ground water regulatory authorities at the Centre and State. Planning Commission, Govt. of India, Water Resources Department (2011).

  25. Member- Committee on Techno-Commercial Viability of the Tenders in NUJS 2011.

  26. Co-ordinator- Committee for the selection of candidates under foreign national category of NUJS (2011).

  27. Registrar (Acting), NUJS, 2010-11– for about 11 months.

  28. Member– Board of trustee, NUJS, w.e.f. 2006

  29. Member – Faculty Advisory Board, NUJS w.e.f. 2010 to 2012

  30. Member – Academic Council, NUJS, w.e.f. 2008 to 2012

  31. Member, Ph.D. Regulation Framework Committee, 2011-12, NUJS, Kolkata.

  32. Member – Scholarship Committee (NUJS);

  33. Member – Standing Committee, NUJS

  34. Assistant Registrar (Academic), NUJS – for about 7 months.

  35. Convener – Purchase Committee - Computers and Furniture

  36. Convener – Laptop agreement committee

  37. Chairperson - Canteen Committee, NUJS

  38. Chairperson – Admission Committee, NUJS

  39. Member – Implementation Committee – Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

  40. Member – Ph.D. guidelines committee

  41. Member - Post Graduate Committee, NUJS

  42. Member – Library Committee, NUJS

  43. Teacher in –charge – Midnapore law College 2002-03

  44. Coordinator – Examination - Midnapore law College 2002-03

  45. Member – Board of Studies – Vidyasagar University WB 2003-04

  46. Warden – Boys Hostel – the WBNUJS 2004-05