Prof. Balu G Nair
October 6, 2023 2023-10-06 7:34Prof. Balu G Nair
Prof. Balu G Nair
Assistant Professor
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (WBNUJS, Kolkata);
LL.M. (Melbourne Law School)
Balu G Nair graduated from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, with a B.A.LL.B. (Hons.). Subsequent to the completion of his qualifying law degree, Balu worked in the dispute resolution verticals of AK Law Chambers as well as Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Balu was also a Public Interest Fellow at IDIA, where he assisted in the drafting of a petition seeking damages for the flaws in the data security framework of Aadhaar. Thereafter, he went on to do his LL.M. from the Melbourne Law School as the inaugural Alex Chernov Scholar. He was also awarded the JN Tata Endowment Scholarship as well as the Myers Family Scholarship towards living expenses. At Melbourne, he broadly focused on public law and also took special interest in the interface between public and private law.
His current research interests span the subject areas constitutional law, administrative law, and government liability.
- ‘Abrogation of Art 370: Can the President Act without the Recommendation of the Constituent Assembly’, Indian Law Review,3:3 (2019), 254-279
- ‘The National Food Security Bill, 2011: An Opportunity Lost?’, 3 (Monsoon) Journal of Indian Law and Society (2012)
- Migrant Labourin India: Plugging the Loopholes in the National Legal Framework Governing Domestic Migrant Workers (2012), The 2nd MARG-AP Trust Labour Law Essay Competition, 2012 (Booklet) (2012)
- ‘Kathakinu Purakile Sabhyatha’, essay in Malayalam on the legality of public display of affection, published in an edited volume titled ‘Chumbikkuna Manushyar Chumbikkatha Manushyar’ brought out by DC Books, a prominent vernacular publisher, ISBN: 978-81-264-6032-8 (2014)
- ‘Seeds Bill, 2014: An Opportunity Lost’, Food Security Law: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Book), Centre for Food Security and Agro Economy, GNLU, Gandhinagar, ISBN 93-5145-026-0, Eastern Book Company (2014)
- ‘Why SC Disallowing RTI Requests for Pleadings is a Missed Opportunity’, The Wire (March 2020)
- ‘Sabarimala: Why the Kerala Government may be in Contempt of Court’, The Wire (November 2019)
- ‘Article 370: Is it a Basic Feature of the Indian Constitution?’, Verfassungsblog (August 2019)
- 40+ blog posts for SpicyIP, India’s leading intellectual property law & policy blog, https://spicyip.com/author/balu-nair (June 2016 – present)
- Issues in Public Law in South Asia workshop travel grant
- The Alex Chernov Scholarship for Master of Laws (University of Melbourne)
- The JN Tata Endowment Award for the Higher Education of Indians
- Newman College – Myers Family Scholarship
- Jessie Leggatt Scholarship for Comparative Health Law
- Presented a paper on government liability at the ‘Issues in Public Law in South Asia’ workshop, jointly organized by the Oxford Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Melbourne, and Chinese University of Hong Kong (2022)
- Speaker at the Statelessness Intensive Course, organized by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne (2021)
- Speaker at the National Law Day webinar organized by the Department of Law, University of Calicut (2021)
- Presented a paper on ‘India’s Administrative Citizenship Regime’ at the Citizenship and Statelessness workshop jointly organized by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University, and Melbourne Law School (2020)
- Gave a presentation on the ‘Public Law Perspectives on Citizenship and Statelessness in India’ at a seminar organized by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School (2020)
- Constitutional Law – I
- Constitutional Law – II
- Administrative Law
- Law of Torts
- Moot Court and Trial Advocacy