Dr. Yashomati Ghosh: Right to Good Governance in India: Towards a Model of Citizen Centric Accountability
- When:
- October 12, 2017
- Time:
- 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
- Category:
- Lecture
- Location:
- Sedgewick C168
- Details:
-
Right to Good Governance in India: Towards a Model of Citizen Centric Accountability
Thursday 12 October 2017
3:00-4:30pm
Sedgewick C168Dr. Yashomati Ghosh will be giving a talk entitled Right to Good Governance in India: Towards a Model of Citizen Centric Accountability as part of CAPI’s Research Seminar Series.
Dr. Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the National Law School of India University. She is visiting the University of Victoria under the Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship, co-sponsored by CAPI and the Faculty of Law.
Dr. Ghosh was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship for the year 2010-2011. She was also awarded a doctoral fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Boston, as a Berkman Fellow. She was also an awardee of the SUN Scholarship by the Central European University and was invited to attend the program on Teaching Human Rights and Legal Ethics, Budapest (2009). She qualified for the UGC-NET for Lectureship in 2006 and was awarded the UGC-Junior Research Fellowship.
Her teaching areas and specializations include Administrative Law, Legal Ethics, Law of Good Governance and Digital Copyright Law. She has published text books on Administrative Law (Textbook on Administrative Law, LexisNexis, 2016) and on Legal Ethics (Legal Ethics and the Profession of Law, LexisNexis, 2014). She has also published several articles. She is presently working on a Government of India sponsored research project on the Right to Timely Delivery of Service Laws in India and Litigation Policy in India.
- Contact:
-
Victor Ramraj
ramraj@uvic.ca