CONSTITUTION OF INDIA @ 75
GUARANTOR INSTITUTIONS & CONSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH ASIA
Wednesday | 29 January | 2-5pm | LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
This event is free to attend; please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register your interest.
Program & venue details will be sent to all registered attendees on 28 January 2025.
PLEASE NOTE that this event will not be live-streamed.
All Constitutions need to guarantee that fundamental norms will be complied with credibly. Constitutions — especially in the Global South — have accordingly established independent guarantor institutions (Election Commissions, Auditors-General, Human Rights Commissions, anti-corruption watchdogs, etc). This event, part of our series celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India, will discuss the conditions in which guarantor institutions can work independently and effectively in South Asia.
SPEAKERS: Sara Hossain is Barrister-at-Law & Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and Honorary Executive Director of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST); Tarun Khaitan (@tarunkhaitan) is Professor (Chair) of Public Law at LSE, and co-editor of Constitutional Resilience in South Asia (2023); Dr Yasser Kureshi (@Y2Kureshi) is Departmental Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Oxford School of Global & Area Studies, University of Oxford, and author of Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan (2022); Dinesha Samararatne (@DineshaSam) is Professor in the Department of Public & International Law, University of Colombo, and co-editor of Constitutional Resilience in South Asia (2023).
CHAIR: Naufel Vilcassim is Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE) & Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, LSE.
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This event is in collaboration with LSE Law School.
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