Who among the NALSAR faculty is well known for their work in law and tech? I know two such people, one of them was a full time faculty at NLS. She has quit recently to do some research on her own, though she's still with NLS in an adjunct position. The other one is a full time faculty at NUJS. NUJS also has another good faculty in IT law, a senior professor.

I don't think you have any knowledge of what quality publications means. Mazumder has authored a book on database protection law that was published by Springer back when such publication used to be a big deal. He's also a great classroom teacher and I speak from experience. Guha has got one of the highest number of peer reviewed and Scopus and web of science indexed publications among all NLU faculty, including collaborative publications in tech forums and interdisciplinary conferences. Based on his posts, he is also involved in the peer review boards of some of the top journals and conference forums in his field of studies. I have got friends in various IITs working on AI and many of them have worked with him in multiple projects. So clearly you are trolling.

None, honestly. NLSIU may have electives in the field, sondo other NLUs. But except CCG at NLU Delhi, I've hardly seen anyone working in law and tech. Prof. Scaria at NLS also had a joint project with IIT on LLMs (started when he was at NLUD). Similarly, he had a project with Max Planck on data governence vis-a-vis sustainable development goals. But those are really nothing like fancy projects that CCG does.

Most work, in this area, will be done by private universities. BML Munjal, Jindal and Sai University being prominent among them.

There are multiple collaborative research projects in AI and law that has taken place or are still happening between NUJS faculty and the various IITs, IISER, and a couple of foreign universities over the past few years. I have come across research papers highlighting such work in arxiv, ACL Anthology and other known domains. Munjal faculty hasn't really produced any published output in the field that I could see. Sai people did too. I am not sure about electives in law schools, so can't comment about it.

I think it might just be NUJS. There are a bunch of professors who work in law and tech. Prof. Shameek offers a media law elective, which is banging, and also heads a new centre that is doing some good work; one of the only centres that actually works at NUJS tbh. Also, Prof. SKG, man, he's impeccable. He knows a ton and is also on editorial boards of journals wrt AI Ethics. He also offered an elective not very long ago on AI ethics. Then, the young Prof. Gupta. He works on stuff like esports, fintechs, etc. Prof. Gupta has some amazing command over his domain area, like really. I have spoken to him quite a few times, and the guy knows his shit in and out, which really helped me in some areas I was stuck in during internships. He was apparently offering an elective on fintech to the LLM batch; maybe he will offer us next year or so. Prof. Annie Mazum is very senior again and a brilliant teacher of IP and Cyberlaw. Like the guy. Even Dr. Srinivasulu is good with biotechnology law; he takes another compulsory subject on science tech and law ig. Has a stellar publication record. The good part about them is that each of them is very involved and interested in educating and making students learn. U can reach out to prof. aman, prof. shouvik, prof. shameek for clarifying concepts etc., and they will really go an extra mile to explain that and encourage you. They also expect good work from students tbh and keep an eye out for them. So it's not that u can clown ur way into working with them, but they are generally very kind and just amazing human beings eod.

It's great that you admire all these guys but anyone reading legally india would imagine that no women teach at law schools. Bro worship is a little nineties. Where are the ladies? I don't trust any gushing post that names five men, using words like impeccable. No one is impeccable.

If there were any, they would be named. They're not and therefore they're not named. Duh ! & What's the ratio of ladies to men in hard science ? Similar is the case with law. How many ladies to you see in tax, IPR or cyber, in comparison to International law, Human rights, gender rights ? The point is simple, ladies want to work in humanity and social fields. Men want to work in logical fields. That's why you'd see a lavanya rajamani in environmental law and these NUJS men in tech law. Obviously, exceptions are there.

Clearly the commentator is from NUJS. The university has got several excellent women faculty like Lovely Dasgupta for contract for example. However, nobody good who directly works in law and tech. There is Paramita Dasgupta, but her field is more IP and public health laws. I agree with your comments about the use of gushing adjectives. In fact, most of the people named would probably feel embarrassed to be the subject of such adulation, anonymous or otherwise. They are good teachers, some are even excellent researchers. Shameek, Anirban, Souvik and Aman are also approachable and kind to students. That much I too vouch for.

Goes to show that you will ignore facts just to suit your narrative. First of all, you yourself mentioned the qualifier until few years ago. Which means that they do so now. Secondly, Animazum has authored his database book more than a decade ago and has been teaching IT Law since 2007. Get your facts straight.

The best law and tech work in India is not happening in universities. The simple reason for that is - if you’re good at law and tech - you can find a great job doing that work as a consultant or as a researcher at any number of public policy places. More pay more flexibility- why would you bother grinding it out as a full time law professor? Maybe you’ll teach an elective now and then.

I like apar Gupta, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham, Amber Sinha, some of the folks working at Uber and meta in India are pretty sharp at this too.

it doesnt work for all areas of the law. The best place to do public law scholarship is in universities. That is where you find the best talent in that space. The best space to do corporate work might be in industry but the best place to do work in private law theory- thats in universities.

Tech law-you dont have to work for a company, you could start an NGO, an independent consultancy, and do seriously good work outside academia while getting paid a good amount of money.
"There are still academics doing good work everywhere" is a nothing statement. The best people in this area are not usually found in a university space.

Private law research can and does get done outside universities. Vidhi is an example. Which university in this country has done stellar work in private law exactly? If the work that you do is good enough and socially relevant, you can do that outside the university and earn a comfortable living. On the other hand, universities in India will require you to do classroom teaching and pointless admin work. However, despite such circumstances, there are good people doing almost all kinds of law both within and outside university space. You forget that if someone does good work in tech law or private law within a university, then chances are they will be asked to work with people outside the university too.

I dont understand why youre picking an argument? What exactly in what ive said are you objecting to?

Private law- theory I said. Please read the comment properly. When we're talking about theories of private law- that sort of research is best done in universities, industry really has no space for it. Think of the work Nigam Nuggehalli or Akshaya Kamalnath or Shyam Balaganesh or Umakanth Varottil do- theres an academic and theoretical nature to their work that doesnt translate to an industry job.

you keep saying these nothing statements like "there are good people doing all kinds of law within and outside the university"- like okay then. have a nice day.

I dont think there are any meaningful collaborations that university professors in India are engaged in to be honest. These projects are hard to sustain and hard to succeed.

My perspective is that with tech law in particular, because there are plenty of opportunities in industry and in civil society organisations , because those jobs pay more and offer more flexibility and control than university jobs- the best scholars in that specific field are probably found outside of the university system. I gave examples of those names.

Stop being so defensive- if youre offended no one thought of you/ your professor when suggesting names- perhaps you should work harder or your professor should do more impactful work. I'm done with this conversation now.

Yes, well I have been following tech law work from a distance since 2012? Something like that. I’m completely entitled to have my opinion and you’re completely allowed to disagree.

That you feel the need to discredit instead of just disagreeing indicates some deeper pathology at play.

Consider that if your work is not being mentioned or whoever you are shilling for is not being mentioned - it might be because the work is not making impact. Every nlu has ten centres and most of the time they don’t do one single impactful or valuable thing the entire time they exist. Just because there’s someone who claims they do tech law or have a centre with no projects and either no publications or publications that aren’t read by anyone - doesn’t mean they’re being ignored because of some bias or animus or even ignorance- the work might just not be as interesting or impactful.

If this question was asked about criminal law - everyone would mention Anup and Mrinal and Aparna and all of them wouldn’t they ? It’s because their work makes impact. I don’t think there’s one person in tech law space in the universities who has similarly undeniable impact.

I’m absolutely done with this now. I feel like I’m talking to a wall. If you’re working on this stuff and feel resentful at lack of recognition - work harder, go to therapy, touch grass.

I'm a woman. I dont obsessively read comments on this site. the indian women who were good have all left india - so what do we do? chinmayi arun and amba kak are both gone, I dont think Anja Kovacs is here anymore either. a number of young people in the space with potential- theyre all gone to study further too.

The reason I mentioned these names ie because they started/headed organisations in the space and they write prolifically so anyone wanting to read indian lawyers in tech law should start reading here.

Theres obviously a sex disparity- but I dont think getting angry at us will do you much good. You need to get angry at people twenty years ago who gate kept tech law, or at women twenty years ago who chose not to pursue it because it was too niche.