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Professor (Dr.) Chanchal Kumar Singh

Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla, University of Delhi

ORCID iD 0009-0000-0347-3119
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Brief Profile:
Prof. (Dr.) Chanchal Kumar Singh is a graduate in Political Science (Hons.) from B.R.A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar (India); LL.B., LL.M. from the University of Delhi (India), and Ph.D. in Law from the same University. Prior to joining HPNLU, Shimla, he has taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi for nine years. He teaches Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Legal Philosophy, Comparative Public Law, Law and Justice in a Globalising World, Legal Methods and Research Methodology, Administrative law, Legal Systems, and Judicial Process and Administration.
Professor Singh has more than 15 Years of full-time teaching and research experience (on an average, 16-18 hours of teaching and about 24 hours of research, Per Week). He has successfully supervised 02 Ph.D. theses and 25 LL.M. dissertations in addition to guiding LL.B. students in respect of their project works, seminar, and writing of research papers.
He has delivered lectures/talks and has been resource person at various institutions such as, NHRC, NCW, ICSSR, Judicial Academy, Directorate of Training (UTCS)-Delhi, NACEN- Faridabad, colleges of Delhi University, Training Program(s) organized by the National Commission for Women; presented papers in several national and international seminars/conferences; published research articles/papers in reputed law journals including the Journal of Indian law institute; Journals published by the University of Delhi. Professor Singh has organised numerous national and international conferences, workshops, round table conferences, and conducted credit-based certificate courses.
He is the founder editor of Shimla Law Review- SLR, (ISSN-25821903, UGC CARE indexed) and HPNLU Law Journal (ISSN: 2582-8533) published by Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla. Previously, he has been editor of the Journal of Law Teachers of India -JOLTI (ISSN 2231-1580) published by Law Centre-I, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

Research Projects:-
Professor Singh has been associated with the Supreme Court Project on ‘Restatement of the Indian Laws’, Public Interest Litigation (2009-2011) occasioning publication of a book with identical title, by the Indian Law Institute; and Co-ordinator of the paper on ‘Judicial Process and Administration’ of the PG-E-Pathsala Project [An MHRD Project under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) (2014-2015)], ensuing into creation of twenty-one modules on the subject, accessible at: http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/search.php.
Presently, Prof. Singh is the principal Investigator of a major project: ROLE OF PRO-BONO LAWYERING IN ENSURING ACCESS TO JUSTICE: A STUDY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO STATES OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, HARYANA, PUNJAB, UNION TERRITORIES OF CHANDIGARH AND JAMMU& KASHMIR, an Action Research and Studies on Judicial Reforms Project under The National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms (Department of Justice, Ministry of Law & Justice, GOI), Implementing Agency – Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla.
He is Principal Investigator of a project on Socio-Economic Rights and Building & Construction Workers: A Study of Implementation of Laws and Rules in the State of Himachal Pradesh (2020-2021) established by the Centre for Comparative Public Law (CCPL), and sponsored by the HPNLU, Shimla. He has been director of the two Weeks capacity development programme (CBP), Comparative Public Law and Hindu Philosophy: Research and Teaching Dimensions in 21st Century India’, organized by CCPL, in July 2021, and funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi; and a two Weeks capacity development programme (CBP) "Access to Justice in Ancient India: Opportunities and Challenges for Legal Pluralism in 21st Century" (Capacity Building Programme, July, 2022) funded by ICSSR New Delhi. The ICSSR funded a third CBP under the directorship of Professor Singh on the theme of “Exploring the Dimensions of Research Methods in Social Sciences and Jurisprudence.”

Area of Interests:-
Constitutional Law, Legal Philosophy, Comparative Public Law, Law and Justice in a Globalizing World, Administrative law, Legal Systems, and Judicial Process and Administration. Constitutional law theory, equality and anti-discrimination laws.

Institution Building:-
Prof. Singh is an enthusiastic young institution builder. Efforts and achievements include development and implementation of academic and physical infrastructures at the parent University. Some of the notable achievements includes making of rules/regulations, thorough revision of more than 112 Course Contents and Teaching Plans in line with the NEP, Development of Law Library, institutionalizing research projects, establishment of Law Journals (UGC CARE Indexed), establishing and operationalizing University Research Centres and administrative branches, liaison with different agencies and facilitation of Government Funds for University Infrastructures purposes etc.

Employment

  • Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla Professor of Law
    2017 - 2025
  • University of Delhi Assistant Professor of Law
    2009 - 2017

Education

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Publications (71)