Guest Lecture by Prof. V.S. Mallar, V.R. Chair Professor, NLSIU, Bangalore

About the Speakers

Prof. V.S. Mallar, Chair Professor, V.R. Krishna Iyer Chair on Public Law & Policy Choice, NLSIU Bangalore

B.A. (1963), M.A. Economics (1965) and B.L. (1967) from University of Madras and LL.M. from Bombay University. He also holds a post Graduate Diploma in Labour and Administrative Law from University of Madras.

He was a Lecturer in Law at J.S.S. Law College, Hubli during 1971 – 1973 and as the Faculty of Law at V.M. Salgaocar College of Law, Panaji, Goa between 1973 and 1980. He was the Vice-Principal in 1981. He was the Dean, Faculty of Law and Chairman of Board of Studies in Law of Goa University during 1986-88. He was selected and appointed as Assistant Professor of Law (Senior) at NLSIU in May 1988, as Associated Professor of Law in April 1992, as Additional Professor in April 1997 and as Professor of Law from December, 1997. He was a Visiting Faculty at the Warwick University Coventry, U.K. during 1995. He also visited Ireland, Singapore, Sri Lanka and U.S.A. to attend International Conferences and to deliver lectures. He was the Director of K.S. Hegde Law College, Mangalore between 1998-2000.

He was Registrar, NLSIU between April 2001 and August 2005.

Between December 2006 and April 2007 he was Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar, Gujarat and Professor of Law at Nirma Institute of Science and Technology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat from June 2007 to December, 2007. Currently he is a Visiting Faculty at NLSIU.