Center for Constitutional Law Studies

The Centre for Constitutional Law Studies (CCLS) aims to become a destination for scholars and public intellectuals from a variety of regional and disciplinary bases (CCLS@JGLS). CCLS is dedicated to leading research in persistent and contemporary issues in public law, with a particular focus on constitutional and administrative law, and political and legal theory.

The Center seeks to initiate a dialogue and develop expertise in using different methodologies and interdisciplinary skills (from academic areas such as political philosophy, history, and economics) to improve the quality of research output when undertaking comparative or empirical analysis of public law issues. To this end, the Center specifically wishes to establish collaborations with other academic institutions; and scholars working in these fields, as well as with members of government; policy-makers; legal professionals and non-governmental organisations, both locally and globally.

The Centre’s work will focus on the following objectives:

• Organising conferences, panel discussions and guest lectures: related to and engaging with emerging doctrinal public law issues; projects for constitutional theory building and developing methodological rigour; and explorations into interdisciplinary approaches to public law questions in areas such as constitutional history; judicial reasoning; and empirical judicial studies;
• Providing a forum for external scholars, both local and global, to present and develop their research and scholarship on issues of mutual interest, in order for the Jindal Law School community to benefit from and engage with ongoing debates and dialogue on innovative approaches to contemporary issues in public law and theory;
• Providing a forum for Jindal faculty and students to present and develop works-in-progress, which can draw on interdisciplinary insights and are theoretically rigorous — and which can help to focus international attention on Indian Constitutional Law scholarship;
• Developing a specialized comparative research hub/cluster: such a cluster can focus on issues of South Asian constitutionalism or more broadly, on issues on “constitutionalism of the global south.”  
• Bringing out a Policy Paper series: to explore policy implications of various constitutional doctrines; case law and issues such as the special status of Kashmir and its subsequent abrogation; the judicial selection process; intersection of gender justice and public law, South Asian constitutionalism; migration of constitutional ideas.