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Advancing Knowledge and Understanding of the European Union

JGU has been honored with the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair by the European Union (E.U.) for teaching and research. The awarded project titled 'Multi-dimensional Approaches to the Understanding of the E.U. Data Protection Framework' demonstrates our commitment to advancing knowledge and understanding of the European Union and its data protection framework.

Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta

Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta is a Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, Dean of Research & Controller of Examinations at OPJGU. He is Co-Director of JIRICO and Senior Fellow at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS). Prof. Gupta was earlier appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. He has taught at the Brunel Law School of Brunel University during this Ph.D. and has been involved in a funded project on informational privacy. Prof. Gupta has participated in a multi-jurisdictional project on Digital Era Competition: A BRICS View.

Prof. Gupta holds a Ph.D. from Brunel University, London, and two LL.M. degrees (taught and research) from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and the University of East Anglia, UK. His Ph.D. looked at the transnational influence of the US Supreme Court’s judgement in the Feist case in the framing of the Database Directive in the European Union. He specialises in Technology Law and aspects of Intellectual Property Law. Over the years, he has offered courses such as Information Technology Law, Music and Copyright, and EU law and Approaches to New Technology.

Prof. Gupta has contributed in reputed journals such as the European Intellectual Property Review (Sweet and Maxwell), Journal of World Intellectual Property (Wiley), International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford University Press),Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press), Journal of Data Protection and Privacy (Henry Stewart Publications), Economic and Political Weekly and European Journal for Law and Technology (Queen’s University Belfast). He has worked extensively with a globally reputed publisher, Springer, and has several books to his credit. He has been also invited as a Jean Monnet Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Jean Monnet Centre for Intellectual Property & Management, Bournemouth University, UK.

Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta

He is working on multiple externally funded projects, including a research project on cases of copyright infringement on online platforms with researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Intermediary Liability and Free Speech, National Digital Library of India Project with IIT Kharagpur and SEPs, and FRAND licensing in the ICT sector. He has also worked as an advocate at Calcutta High Court.

Events

2021 - Event 2021 - Jean Monnet Invite

Date: 27th September

2022 Event 2022- Jean Monnet Roundtable

Date: 24th September

2023 Mapping Data Protection Expectations Workshop

Date: To Be Announced

Other Activities

  • Jean Monnet Lecture Series: JGLS Lecture Series
    Date: 27th-29th April 2022
  • Workshop on "Understanding Regulatory Mechanisms for Protecting Reasonable Expectations of Privacy: Mapping Consent and Fairness in Australian and Indian Data Protection Law" in collaboration with Melbourne Law School (Australia)
    Date: 29th July

Team

Avirup Bose

Professor, JGLS

Key Staff Member

Sweta Dipak Lakhani

Associate Professor, JGLS

Research Fellow

Krishna Deo Singh

Associate Professor, JGLS

Key Staff Member

Aafreen Mitchelle Collaco

Assistant Lecturer & PhD Scholar, JGLS

PhD Scholar

Dr. Chitresh Kumar

Associate Professor, JGBS

Key Staff Member

Paarth Naithani

Assistant Lecturer & PhD Scholar, JGLS

Research Fellow

Publications

  • Indranath Gupta, Three Decades of Consent, Information Privacy and Data Protection – A Machine- generated Overview  (Volume I & II) (Springer, 2023) (forthcoming)
  • Indranath Gupta, Future of European Studies in Asia (with Maria- Stoicheva and S.G. Sreejith(eds.) (Springer 2023) (forthcoming)
  • Indranath Gupta, Separating Personal Data Protection from Non-Personal Data Governance – Economic and Political Weekly (forthcoming), 2023 (with Paarth Naithani))
  • Paarth Naithani, Curtailing the Cookie Monster through Data Protection by Default, Tilburg Law Review, Volume 27 Issue 1, p.22–36. (Open access)
  • Paarth Naithani, The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 and the Right to Privacy, Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, 57(16), pp. 4–5.
  • Paarth Naithani, Virtual Private Networks and the Right to Privacy, Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, 57(23), pp. 5–6.
  • Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan, From “What” and “Why” to “How”: An Imperative Driven Approach to Mechanics of AI Regulation, 2022, Global Jurist. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/gj-2022-0053/html
  • Paarth Naithani, Regulating the ‘Fingerprinting Monster’ Through EU Data Protection Law, European Data Protection Law Review, 2021, 7(4), pp. 597–608.
  • Paarth Naithani, Pegasus and the Law, Economic and Political Weekly, 2021, 56(49), pp. 4–5.
  • Indranath Gupta, Right to be forgotten in case of search engines: Emerging trends in India as compared to the EU, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 5, Issue 3, 1-13, Dec 2022 (with Paarth Naithani)
  • Indranath Gupta, An Assessment of the JPC Report on PDP Bill, 2019, Economic and Political Weekly (engage), Volume 57, Issue No. 31, 30 July 2022. (with Paarth Naithani)
  • Indranath Gupta, Transparent communication under Article 12 of GDPR: Advocating a Standardised Approach for Universal Understandability, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, Volume 5, No. 2, 2022 (with Paarth Naithani)
  • Chitresh Kumar, Anirban Ganguly & Amanish Lohan (2021): Understanding the interrelationship of barriers towards business model re-engineering under the evolving privacy laws: an interpretive Structure Modelling approach, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, DOI: 10.1080/13600869.2021.1999302 (14th November, 2021).
  • Aafreen Mitchelle Collaco (2021) Contact tracing applications and informational privacy amidst the pandemic in India, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, DOI: 10.1080/13600869.2021.1999277 (9th November, 2021).
  • Paarth Naithani, Application of India’s future data protection legislation to data collected in the past, Economic and Political Weekly (Forthcoming) (Open Access)
  • Indranath Gupta, What is left of consent when it is deemed consent: A data protection experiment in India, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 6, Issue 1 (forthcoming) (with Paarth Naithani)
  • Indranath Gupta, Introduction to Data Protection Law – Cases and Materials from the EU (with Sherin Sarah Philips and Paarth Naithani) (Forthcoming, Springer 2024)

Awarded & Merited

Prof. Indranath Gupta received the Asia Privacy Awards (India Chapter), Best Privacy Author awarded by Tsaaro on June 19th2023

Affiliations

Prof. Indranath Gupta – Advisor Board, Scientific Committee member, European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli, Italy

Prof. Indranath Gupta's Activities