By Jagpreet Singh Sandhu,Chandigarh, January 18 : Professor B.S. Chimni, Chairman, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi will deliver Shahid Bhagat Singh Memorial Lecture on “Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century” on Friday, January 20, at ICSSR North Western Regional Centre, P.U. Campus. Prof. B.S. Brar, Dean University Instruction, P.U. will preside the seminar.
Prof. B.S. Chimni was formerly the Vice-Chancellor of W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (2004-06). He has recently been elected as a member of the prestigious body Institut the Droit International (Institute of International Law). He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown University, USA and International Center for Comparative Law and politics, Tokyo University; Senior Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School; Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law, Heidelberg, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada, Prof. Deepak K. Singh, Chairperson, Department of Political Science, P.U. informed.