Centre for Transnational Commercial Law (CTCL)

National Law University, Delhi.
Sector 14 Dwarka, New Delhi- 110078.
Email: ctcl@nludelhi.ac.in

Advisory Committee Professor Dr. Herbert Kronke Director, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law, Heidelberg, Germany Professor Dr. Symeon C. Symeonides, Dean Emeritus and Alex L. Parks Distinguished Chair in Law, Willamette University College of Law, Salem, Oregon, USA Professor Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer Chair Professor of Private Laws, University of Basel, Switzerland Professor Dr. Michael G. Bridge FBA Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics Professor Dr. Bruno Zeller Professor of Transnational Commercial Law University of Western Australia. Professor Dr. Stefan Vogenauer Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Former Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. Professor Dr. Upendra Baxi Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK Distinguished Professor, NLU Delhi, Former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University Professor Dr. Mahendra P. Singh Chair Professor of Comparative Laws, NLU Delhi Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, Former Vice-Chancellor, NUJS Former Dean, Faculty of Law, Delhi University Dr. T. K. Viswanathan Advisor to the President of India, Chairman BLRC, Former Secretary General Lok Sabha, Former Member of Law Commission of India Professor Dr. A. Jayagovind Visiting Professor, NLU Delhi, Former Vice- Chancellor, NLSIU Mr. Shishir Dholakia Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

RESEARCH STAFF

Name	Designation	E-mail ID
Dr. Risham Garg	Director
Amrita Singh	Researcher

Student Committee members:

Tarun Agarwal	Saumya Bhatt	Aadya Chawla
Rohan Dhariwal	Shubham Gupta	R. S. Lakshman
Arpit Agarwal	Tanaya Rajawade	Ayush Singh
Neeraj Nainani	Ayushi Agrawal	Pragya Dwivedi
Nidhi Khandelwal	Archita Srivastava	Kartik Prasad
Ashutosh Singh	Mahim Dubey

STATEMENT OF AIMS of the Centre for Transnational Commercial Law

The Central mission of advancing the body of knowledge of transnational commercial law in India is achieved through a number of objectives:

1. To be a national leader in private and government transnational commercial law research and teaching.
2. To be a centre of excellence in private and government transnational commercial law reform advice and policy evaluation.
3. To provide consultative services to Government, Institutions and Organizations, dedicated towards development of Transnational Commercial Law and Practice.
4. Publication of books, journal, magazine, newsletter etc on Transnational Comparative Commercial Law.
5. To design and conduct courses - Certificate, Diploma and PG on Transnational Comparative Commercial Law and Practice.
6. To be a national forum for academics, practitioners and regulators working in private and government commercial law.
7. To conduct seminars/conferences, workshops, debates/discussions, clinics, trainings, etc on Transnational Commercial Law.
8. To liaise with institutions, professionals, NGOs, governments, Public Authorities for conducting research and undertaking projects regarding Transnational Commercial Law.
9. Any other assignment related to promotion of academic discourse on and practice in Transnational Commercial Law.
10. To actively engage in deliberations involving the Unification and Harmonization of International Private Laws along with the UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, The Hague Conference and similar institutions & organizations.

Activities/Events by the Centre for Transnational Commercial Law, during Jan-Dec 2016

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONSULTANCY

MHRD GIAN Courses

1. Grant of US Dollars 12,000/- from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India; MHRD GIAN Course on Comparative Contract Law & Practice, May 12-22, 2016; Invited Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Chair of Law Institutions of the Max Planck Society.
2. Grant of US Dollars 12,000/- from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India; MHRD GIAN Course on Cross-Border Business Law & Practice, October 10-23, 2016; Invited Professor Bruno Zeller, Professor of Transnational Commercial Law, University of Western Australia.

Symposium & Conferences

1. 2016 UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day, in association with UNCITRAL RCAP, “Whether the Uniform Sales Law is Likely to Improve ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and 'Enforcing Contracts' in India?" 2016 UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day, at National Law University Delhi, 17-October-2016
2. Conference on ‘Bankruptcy & Cross-Border Insolvency Laws in India- the way forward’; 14th May 2016, National Law University Delhi
3. Talk on 'India's new Bankruptcy Law', by a Panel comprising Mr. Sumat Batra Advocate, Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta of IGIDR, Mr. Pratik Datta of NIPFP, moderator Dr. Risham Garg. On 5th November 2016.
4. Submitted an opinion note to the Chairman, Bankruptcy Law Reforms Commission, on Cross-Border Insolvency Regime for India