Vik Kanwar

Experience

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  Harvard Law School

  Nov 1997 - Mar 1998

  Research Assistant for Prof. Martha Minow

  Fieldwork on opening case in Civil Procedure casebook, reprinted continuously since 1998.

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  Center for Constitutional Rights

  Aug 1998 - Jan 1999

  Ella Baker Fellow
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  Boston College Law School

  May 1999 - Jul 1999

  Graduate Research Assistant for Prof. Anthony Paul Farley
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  Brennan Center for Justice

  Jan 2000 - Mar 2000

  Project Intern

  Empirical research on Access to Justice and Legal Services restrictions.

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  FEGS

  Jun 2001 - Jun 2002

  Director of Legal Programs, Senior Consultant (Youth Programs):

  New York, New York Designed and directed nine-month legal education and academic enrichment program, summer externships, and intensive seven-week “Introduction to Law” course.

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  Center for Constitutional Rights

  Dec 2002 - May 2003

  Jules Lobel Fellow

  CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, New York, New YorkServed as lead consultant in developed a strategic plan for challenging state and private arrangements providing prisoner telephone systems. Designed two legislative campaigns and collaborated on development of litigation projects.

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  New York University School of Law

  Nov 2003 - May 2005

  Hauser Global Law School Program Graduate Assistant

  Global Program Assistant: Administered law school program sponsoring eminent international faculty, dignitaries and fellows. Duties included assisting faculty appointments process, developing foreign study opportunities, editing Working Paper Series, and participating in graduate admissions process.

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  NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC)

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Graduate Research Fellow

  Graduate Research Fellow, Non-Proliferation Program: Conducted research on international legal and policy issues involving the United Nations Security Council and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Westerfield Fellow

  Westerfield Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor: Taught Seminars on “Transnational Impact Litigation,” “Human Rights Litigation: Domestic Remedies and International Law,” and common law and civil law sections of “Legal Research and Writing” and “Moot Court.”

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  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  Feb 2008 - Jul 2008

  Expert Consultant

  Expert consultant (independent contractor) on issues related to humanitarian policy and international law.

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  Clemson University

  Aug 2008 - Jan 2009

  Visiting Lecturer in Political Science

  Teaching course on "Political Violence and Terror" in Department of Political Science. Participating in Globalization Colloquium.

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  Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)

  Apr 2009 - Jun 2016

  Prof. Kanwar has been on the faculty of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), an innovative law faculty outside New Delhi, India, since its founding in 2009; he was appointed Associate Professor in 2013. He founded the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (CPLJ) in 2009 and was appointed Executive Director in 2012. The multi-disciplinary University, Law School, and Centre combine to provide a legal education in light of global policy, and develop research capacities on the need for the protection of the rule of law and its impact on governance. In addition to his individual scholarly focus on international law and social theory, Prof. Kanwar directs research on the interdisciplinary and comparative study of law; and directs the preparation of materials or reports for submission to legislatures, courts, administrative bodies, national and international agencies. Show less Founding faculty of Global Law School, an innovative law faculty outside New Delhi, India, intended to offer a legal education in light of global policy, and developing research capacities on the need for the protection of the rule of law and its impact on governance. The JGLS will respect the freedom of scholars to collaborate and develop useful partnerships and research exchange relationships with other individuals and institutions that are in India and abroad. Topics will include: critical analysis and interpretation of legislation and case law; highlighting practical legal issues confronting society and the individual; economy and the state; interdisciplinary and comparative study of law; and the preparation of materials or reports for submission to legislatures, courts, administrative bodies, national and international agencies.Research Interests:History and theory of international lawLegal regulation of lethal force Comparative constitutional lawPublic health and safetyEmergency exceptions and multi-source norms Interdisciplinary methodsSubject Areas for Supervising Written Work:Public lawPublic international lawHuman rights and humanitarian lawLegal sociology Show less

  • Associate Professor of Law

    Apr 2013 - Jun 2016

  • Assistant Professor

    Apr 2009 - Apr 2013
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  O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)

  Oct 2009 - May 2016

  Executive Director Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence

  Founding Executive Director. Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (CPLJ), co-founded with Abhayraj Naik, on October 2, 2009, the 140th birth Anniversary of M.K. Gandhi, as a research center dedicated to the application of legal and philosophical thought to pressing social problems. CPLJ was the first faculty initiated Center at JGLS and OP JGU. Work in the first three years included the crisis of delays in the courts, corruption in public administration, legal pluralism and the recourse to extrajudicial honor killings in local communities. Numerous co-directors and researchers joined over the years adding projects in public philosophy, constitutional history, procedural code drafting, and even private law theory. Honorary Emeritus role "Founding Executive Director" since retiring from full-time teaching on May 26, 2016. Show less

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  Southwestern Law School

  Dec 2015 - Aug 2021

  Associate Director of International Programs

  Primary administrator for graduate and international programs, including a small and selective General LL.M., at Southwestern Law School. Full time faculty teaching "Introduction to American Law" and "Law in Context and Practice."

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  Boston College Law School

  Aug 2021 - now

  Director of Graduate and Global Programs, Lecturer-in-Law, Boston College Law School