International Collaborations and Support
Academic institutions must
constantly reinvent themselves for facing the challenges of
globalisation through exchange and collaboration programmes. There
is a need to have a shared understanding of the nature of exchange
and collaborative programmes being established. It is then only that
such programmes could be effective and beneficial for all the
parties concerned. The proposed JGU and the JGLS have already
received letters of support and intention to establish institutional
collaborations from leading educational institutions in the world.
These include the United Nations University (UNU), the Harvard Law
School, the Human Rights Program of the Harvard Law School, the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society of the Harvard Law School,
Yale Law School, New York University School of Law, the University
of San Francisco School of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law of the
University of Utah, William Mitchell College of Law, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Oxford, King’s
College, London, the University of Sydney, and Keio Law School.
Excerpts Relating to Collaborations and Support
“The United Nations
University (UNU), the world’s first and only truly global
university, is pleased to support the establishment of the O.P.
Jindal Global University (JGU) in India. We believe that this
University will serve a valuable role in promoting highest
standards of research and education and will assist the need to
expand and advance more institutions of academic excellence in
developing countries...The JGU and the JGLS should always remain
global in thinking, global in recruiting, global in teaching
and global in standard application.”
Professor Dr. Konrad
Osterwalder
Rector, United Nations University (UNU), Japan
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“I write, on behalf of
the International Legal Studies program at Harvard, which I
head, to indicate our very serious interest in working
collaboratively with O.P. Jindal Global University and Law
School. Based on our conversation and on those I have had with a
number of colleagues here, I believe that there a number of
common interest between the two institutions. I look forward to
exploring these further… Your current efforts to establish
a new law school are impressive and we welcome this opportunity.”
Professor William P.
Alford
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal
Studies
Director of East Asian Legal Studies
Harvard Law School, USA
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“I am delighted to serve
on the Jindal Global Law School’s International Board of
Advisors and to provide my continued support for the development
of the Jindal Global Law School. On behalf of HRP, I look
forward to exploring collaborative opportunities as you and your
colleagues strive to create this important initiative for legal
education. As a center that promotes interdisciplinary work and
seeks to engage diverse disciplines in the analysis of
international law, HRP shares the Jindal Global Law School’s
commitment to provide students unique global perspectives
through its curriculum, faculty expertise, research
collaborations, and thematic programs.”
Professor Ryan Goodman
Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Director, Human Rights Program (HRP)
Harvard Law School, USA
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“I am writing on behalf
of the directors of the Berkman Centre for Internet &
Society at Harvard University. We wish to express our enthusiasm
for your venture in general. We would also like you to consider
us as a potential partner in your future endeavours. There are
several areas where we believe that we might collaborate. One
such area is research. A potential topic could be the future of
Internet and democracy, in light of India’s position as not
only a technology but also the world’s largest democracy.
We are also interested in issues related to technology and
development in India....We also might collaborate on an event or
a teaching program.”
Professor John Palfrey
Executive Director, The Berkman Centre for Internet &
Society
Harvard University
Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA
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“…allow me to
confirm the intention of the Program on Human Rights in
Development of Harvard School of Public Health to establish
close collaboration with the O.P. Jindal Global University. In
addition to serving on the International Advisory Board of JGLS,
I hope to be able to work with you on joint research projects,
co-publications, external courses, and conferences and seminars.
The research areas in which the Program on Human Rights in
Development is engaged and would welcome the involvement of
Jindal Global Law School include (a) trade and human rights, (b)
access to medicines in developing countries, (c) comparative
research on governance and sustainable development in India and
China, (d) comparative studies on the right to health, and (e)
the implementation of the right to development”.
Professor Stephen P.
Marks
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Director, Program on Human Rights in Development
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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“I write
on behalf of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York
University School of Law to express our strong admiration and
support for the establishment of the Jindal Global Law School of
the O.P. Jindal Global University, India, and our willingness to
cooperate with you and the School in order to assist its goal of
achieving the highest level of excellence in legal education…It
is apparent that the Jindal Global Law School addresses urgent
and vital needs for strengthening legal education in India and
training young lawyers to contribute to India’s economic
and social progress and assist the government and the country in
addressing the challenges of globalization.”
Professor Richard B.
Stewart
John E. Sexton Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program
New York University School of Law, USA
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“It gives me great
pleasure to offer the support of the University of San Francisco
School of Law (USF) for the educational activities of the Jindal
Global Law School. As an institution that conceives of itself as
a global law school, educating young Indians to handle the new
social and economic issues of the gloablized world of the 21st
Century, the Jindal Global Law School will be a novel and
valuable addition to the group of law schools now providing
legal education to India’s young men and women…The
University of San Francisco School of Law looks forward to the
commencement of the operations at the Jindal Global Law School
and to its own involvements in the educational activities of the
Jindal Global Law School.”
Professor Jeffrey S.
Brand
Dean, University of San Francisco School of Law, USA
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“On
behalf of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, I
write to voice our continued, strong support for the
establishment of the Jindal Global Law School of the proposed
O.P. Jindal Global University, India…we have a great deal
to offer your exciting new institution, and we stand to gain
enormously from collaborations based on our mutual interests and
commitments to improving global legal education to meet more
effectively the needs of the human condition. This is a great
opportunity to promote global legal education, and I see the
Jindal Global Law School at the forefront of this movement in an
increasingly important and dynamic part of the world.”
Professor Hiram E.
Chodosh
Dean and Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law
The University of Utah, USA
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“…The emphasis you
plan to place on research is obviously something that fascinates
those of us observing the transformative developments taking
place in ever-changing India. We believe that in many ways our
faculty’s research agenda nicely intersects with your
ambitions…we envision and are hopeful for future faculty
collaborations and, in addition, we would be very interested in
discussing how student exchanges might emerge between our two
law schools.”
Professor Eric S.
Janus
President and Dean
Professor Niels Schaumann
Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty
Professor Jayanth K. Krishnan
Research Professor of Law
William Mitchell College of Law, USA
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“We look
forward to a possible collaboration with you to create a world
class university and law school in India which can assist India’s
economic and social development through striving for excellence
in higher education…The vision of the O.P. Jindal Global
University and the Jindal Global Law School are very impressive…
we would be pleased to collaborate with the O.P. Jindal Global
University and the Jindal Global Law School in a range of areas,
to be determined as your school gets established in the near
future.”
Professor Balakrishnan
Rajagopal
Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development
Director, MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
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“In the relatively short
period in which I have been involved with this project I have
seen it developing at an impressive speed. The Jindal Global Law
School has now established relations with some of the more
important Law Schools in the world. And it is only right, I
believe, that I and my colleagues should also lend our support
to this project. Oxford is particularly well placed to help such
an initiative due to our strong graduate programmes, the BCL,
the M Jur and the D Phil…There is every prospect that in
the fullness of time Jindal Global Law School will come to be
seen as one of the leading Asian institutions and as a natural
partner to every other major law school with global ambitions.”
Professor Adrian AS
Zuckerman
Professor of Civil Procedure
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Fellow of University College, Oxford, UK
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“At King’s
we share your excitement for the venture and your view that
legal education now demands an international approach…It
occurs to us that there are possibilities for cooperation
between our two institutions, especially in terms of research
and post graduate education…we have research centres in
European Law, Criminology, Medical Law and Ethics, and
Technology…We are happy to explore links across these, and
other, areas…There are numerous specialties but probably
the most popular are the LLM in International Financial Law, LLM
in Competition Law, LLM in European Law, LLM in International
Business Law and the LLM in Intellectual Property.”
Professor Timothy
Macklem
Head of School
School of Law
King’s College London, UK
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“The Sydney Centre for
International Law at the Faculty of Law, the University of
Sydney is pleased to express its support for your work to
establish the Jindal Global Law School in India…As a
pre-eminent Australian law school, and a leading law school in
the Asia-Pacific region, with more than 150 years of experience
in legal education, Sydney Law Faculty is keen to further assist
in strengthening legal education in the region…We view the
establishment of the Jindal Global Law School as an important
and innovative measure to further enhance the production of high
quality Indian legal professionals, who play a vital role in
assisting economic growth, development, and human rights in
India.”
Dr. Ben Saul
Director, Sydney Centre for International Law
Professor David Kinley
Director, International Human Rights Program
The University of Sydney, Australia
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“I am
sure the plans for Jindal Global Law School will have many
positive and farreaching domestic and international implications
for legal education in the future. I am truly honored to be a
member of the International Board of Advisors and will certainly
do my best to see that every mutually beneficial avenue of
collaboration and cooperation is explored between our two
institutions...we have a chance to build deep understanding and
lasting bridges between Jindal Global Law School and Keio Law
School based on a three-pronged approach that includes the
following: academic collaboration; student exchange; and faculty
exchange.”
Professor Gerald Paul
McAlinn
Professor of Law
Keio Law School, Japan
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