Prof. (Dr.) Vishwas H. Devaiah is a Professor at JGLS and has served as Vice Dean & Director of the Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies (April 2020- July 2022). He is currently the Executive Director of CIPTEL & Co-Director, JIRICO.  He has also served as the Managing Editor of the Jindal Global Law Review (JGLR) which is published by Springer (2015-2020). As a member of JIRICO, Vishwas and his colleagues have been recipients of a $2.1 million Research Grant from a US based multinational corporation.   Vishwas’ primary areas of interest are Music and Copyright, Standard Essential Patents and Competition issues, Intersection of Health law, Bioethics and New Medical Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics. He has published widely, and has served as a reviewer for the Asian Comparative Law Journal, the NUJS Law Review and the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Vishwas worked as a research consultant for the World Health Organisation (WHO, South Asia) and the Clinton Health Action Initiative, and also co-founded the Initiative for Medicines Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), New York. Vishwas was selected for the Microsoft IP Teaching Fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has received several research scholarships like the IMLAB scholarship, the Open Society Scholarship and the Asia Commons Grant. Vishwas obtained a PhD from the University of Liverpool, an LLM degree from the Warwick University, and a Bachelor of Laws (BAL, LLB) degree from University Law College, Bangalore. His PhD research was on the regulation of human embryonic stem cell research, titled ‘Protecting egg donors and patients in human embryonic stem cell research: A critical analysis of the current and proposed regulation in India.’ Prior to joining JGLS, Vishwas taught at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta.

• Indranath Gupta, Manveen Singh & Vishwas H Devaiah (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials (Springer, 2022) (Forthcoming).
• Ashish Bharadwaj, Vishwas H Devaiah & Indranath Gupta, Locating Legal Certainty in Patent Licensing (Springer Brief, 2022) (Open Access) (Forthcoming).
• Mathew John, Vishwas H Devaiah, Pritam Baruah, Moiz Tundawala, Niraj Kumar (eds), Indian Year Book of Comparative Law 2020 (Springer 2022). (Forthcoming)
• Indranath Gupta, Vishwas H Devaiah & Manveen Singh (eds.) Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials (Springer 2022).
• Mathew John, Vishwas H Devaiah, Pritam Baruah, Moiz Tundawala, Niraj Kumar (eds), Indian Year Book of Comparative Law 2019 (Springer 2021).
• Prabuddha Ganguli, Vishwas H Devaiah, Indranath Gupta & Jagadish Sagar,  Copyright Guide for Indian Libraries (Ministry of Education, Government of India and National Digital Library of India 2021).
• Ashish Bharadwaj, Vishwas H Devaiah & Indranath Gupta, Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology: Insights on Innovation, Patents and Competition (Springer Nature 2018) (Open Access)
• Ashish Bharadwaj, Vishwas H Devaiah & Indranath Gupta, Complications and quandaries in the ICT sector: Standard Essential Patents and competition Issues (Springer Nature 2017) (Open Access).

• Shivkrit Rai & Vishwas H Devaiah ‘The Need for Healthcare Reforms: Is No-fault Liability the Solution to Medical Malpractice? (2019) 11 Asian Bioethics Review 81-92.
• Indranath Gupta, Vishwas H Devaiah, Dipesh Jain & Vishal Shrivastava, ‘Trends in Prelicensing Negotiations of Standard Essential Patents’ (2019) 22 (3-4) The Journal of World Intellectual Property 120-128.
• Indranath Gupta,  Vishwas H Devaiah &  Shruti Bhushan, ‘Shifting focus on hold-out in SEP licensing: perspectives from the EU, USA and India’ (2018) 14(1) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 12-17.
• Indranath Gupta, Vishwas H Devaiah & Dipesh Jain, ‘Evolving Huawei Framework: SEPs and Grant of Injunctions’ in  Ashish Bharadwaj, Vishwas H Devaiah & Indranath Gupta (eds) Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology (Springer 2018) 137-148 (Open Access).
• Indranath Gupta, Vishwas H Devaiah & Dipesh Jain, ‘CCI’s Investigation of Abuse of Dominance: Adjudicatory Traits in Prima Facie Opinion’ in Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector  (Springer 2017) 185-200 (Open Access).
• Indranath Gupta & Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘CJEU addresses private copying and fair compensation issues’ (2016) 11(6) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 403-406.
• Indranath Gupta & Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘The Database Directive “contracting out” bar: does it apply to unprotected databases?’ (2015) 10(9) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 669-672.
• Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘Impact of bioethics on patentability of inventions’ (2010) 7(1) Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 14-17.
• Saptarshi Ghosh & Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘A critical discussion of the  disinvestment/privatization process in India since the start of the economic reforms in 1991’ (2009) 2(2) Journal of Asian Public Policy 222-231.
• Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘TRIPS Flexibilities: A Critical Review’ in Manish Ashiya  (ed.) TRIPS and Global Pharmaceutical Industry: Perspectives and Implications (Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press, 2006).
• Tahir Amin, Vishwas H Devaiah, Priti Radhakrishnan & Michel Steffen, ‘The impact of Article 39.3 in India: a practical perspective’ (New York: Institute for International Law and Justice, South Asia Dialogue Series, 2006).
• Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘A question of origin: What’s in Champagne that ain’t in Basmati?’ Infochange: Trade and Development (May 2004).
• Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘TRIPS, Patents and Public Policy: A pot of Gold and a Tale of woes!’ Infochange: Trade and Development  (May 2004).
• Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘TRIPS: A Tale of the Shrinking Ocean called  Public domain (An El Nino in the info age)’  Infochange: Trade and Development (May 2004).
• Vishwas H Devaiah, ‘TRIPS, Indigenous Knowledge and the Bio-rush’ Infochange: Trade and Development  (May 2004).

• Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2015) 
• Microsoft IP Teaching Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle (2015) 
• IMLAB Scholarship, University of Liverpool (October 2006 – September 2009)
• Asia Commons Funding, Asia Commons and South Asia Partnership International (May 2006)
• Open Society Foundation Grant, Open Society Foundation (July 2015)

• Music and Copyright
• Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics
• Legal Research Methodology
• Healthcare Law and Bioethics
• Global Pharmaceutical Regulation
• Interface between Intellectual Property and Competition
• International Banking Law

Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics, Regulation of New Medical Technologies, Intellectual Property Rights