C. Raj Kumar
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Chockalingam Raj Kumar is an Indian academic administrator who is the founding vice-chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University[1][2] in Sonipat, Haryana, India, and the dean of the Jindal Global Law School.[3][4]
He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Previously, he has consulted United Nations University, Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme; and the International Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva, National Human Rights Commission of India.[5][6]
Kumar works in the fields of human rights and development, comparative constitutional law, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, legal education and higher education.[7] He has nine books and over two hundred publications to his credit and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, UK and the US.
Kumar received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University of Oxford,[8] where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law degree; a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School,[9] where he obtained his Master of Laws degree.[10] He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, Chennai, India.[11][12] He also was a research fellow at the NYU Law School.[10][8]
He was appointed as the vice chancellor in 2009 when the university was established. Kumar conceived the idea of establishing India's first global university and with the philanthropic support (US$100 million) of Mr. Naveen Jindal, established JGU in Sonipat, Haryana, in 2009.[citation needed]
Books
- Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance (2011), published by the Oxford University Press[13]
- Legal Education and Legal Profession During and After COVID-19, (2022), Singapore, Springer.[14]
- Global Higher Education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and Challenges (2022), New Delhi, Springer.[15]
- The Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives (2017), New Delhi, Oxford University Press.[16]
- The Education President: Institution Building for Nation Building (2016) (Co-Author-Universal Law Publishing & LexisNexis.[17]
- Terrorism, Human Security and Development: Human Rights Perspectives (forthcoming, 2012), to be published by the United Nations University Press, approx. 300 pages (co-editor)
- Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment (January 2007) published by the Oxford University Press, 520 pages (authored two chapters) (co-editor).[18]
- The President of India and The Governance of Higher Education Institutions (2016) (edited), published by Universal Law Publishing (an imprint of LexisNexis).[19]
- Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment (January 2007) published by the Oxford University Press[20]
- Tsunami and Disaster Management: Law and Governance (September 2006) published by Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia[21]
- Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance (July 2006) published by LexisNexis (Butterworths)[22]