Renewable Energy Project in collaboration with the Centre for WTO Studies (CWS), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi

CITEL in collaboration with the CWS undertook a project on renewable energy schemes in the United States in order to identify and submit various local content requirement schemes by various States in the country promoting the purchase of locally produced solar panels instead of those that are foreign-origin/manufactured. This project assisted the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India to explore the possibilities of seeking a consultation at the WTO concerning the subsidies provided by the US government to the renewable energy sector. The project was funded by CWS.

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Legal Advisory and Representation at the Appellate Body in the Dispute: India – Measures Concerning the Importation of Certain Agricultural Products, WT/DS430/AB/R

Professor James Nedumpara was officially empaneled by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India to partner with Luthra and Luthra Law Offices in New Delhi to represent India at the Appellate Body stage at the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland. This dispute represented the first Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures–related dispute against a developing country at the WTO and was therefore a significant dispute in terms of furthering the WTO jurisprudence on key issues. CITEL’s student members were assigned research activities to support the finalization of submissions.

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Law and Governance of Climate Integrity Systems

Sponsored by the Australian Research Council, this project brings together top researchers on international environmental law and climate change, addressing the following questions:

What lessons can be learnt from the UNFCCC development and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol?
Are the implementation and compliance mechanisms within the 2015 Paris Accord sufficient?

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Right to Contraceptive Services and Information for Women in Haryana

The Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology (CHLET) undertook a study on the right to contraceptive services and information for women in Haryana. The primary objective was to delineate whether the state of Haryana is fulfilling its obligations to provide women with access to contraceptive services and information. It presented findings from a multi-stakeholder analysis and human rights assessment of the various policy, social and cultural barriers that impede women in Haryana from realizing their fundamental right to This study undertaken by the CHLET aimed to determine and analyze the impact of the landmark judgment of 2 July 2009 by the Delhi High Court on the lives of sexual minorities in Delhi. The Court’s judgment was in response to a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalized consensual sexual activities between homosexual adults conducted in private.

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Centre for India-China Studies

In December 2015, the Centre for India- China Studies (CICS) was awarded a US$25,000 grant from the Embassy Grant on Academic Exchange of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in India. The grant will fund two small projects. One is to facilitate JGU faculty members to undertake academic visits to China. The other is to organise a conference on Chinese education, policy or law development. The CICS will lead the implementation of the two projects with support from other JGU schools. The projects are expected to span from January to December 2016, and are intended to substantially strengthen academic exchange and collaborations between JGU and Chinese academia and think tanks. The CICS was established in October 2014 as a multi-disciplinary intellectual platform and resource hub for academia, practitioners and students who are interested in India and greater China including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The CICS is also committed to playing an active intellectual role on issues related to India- China collaborations and South – South cooperation at regional and international level. Within a short period of its establishment, the CICS has supported JGU in strengthening its existing partnerships with Chinese universities as well as extend its network to include NGOs and think-tanks in mainland China.

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Law and Policy Brief

The playing field of law is growing wider and more complex with time. This is not only the result of the irrelevance of national boundaries owing to globalization, whereby legal changes in India have repercussions elsewhere, but also because of the multiple domains that are engaged and impacted by the operation of any particular law, even within the country. Many well intentioned legislations fail to get off the ground or achieve the purposes that they were meant to address. This could be because of failures to take account of the economic costs of operationalizing the legislation at the pre-legislative stage, or it could be because of the pressure that the new law might create on the administrative and judicial structures.

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