Friday, September 26, 2008
Introduction by Professor Raka Ray (UC Berkeley)
Welcome by Dean Christopher Edley (UC Berkeley, School of Law)
FDRI - The Road to Berkeley
- Sridar Iyengar, President, FDRI
- Venktesh Shukla, Board Member, FDRI
Session One: Framing the Issues
Moderator: Raka Ray (UC Berkeley)
Panelists:
- Pranab Bardhan (UC Berkeley)
- Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Director, Center for Policy Research)
Session Two: Instruments of Law - The Judiciary
Moderator: Mark Brandon (Professor, Vanderbilt University)
Panelist:
- N. R. Madhava Menon (Founder Director, National Law School, Bangalore)
- Madhu Kishwar (Founder, Manushi for Women)
- Erik Jensen (Stanford Law School)
- Manoj Mate (Fellow in Comparative Law, Berkeley Law School
Presentation of FDRI/Lokniti Data on Judiciary: Pradeep Chhibber
Session Three: Instruments of Law - The Police and Army
Moderator: Professor Lawrence Cohen (UC Berkeley)
Panelists:
- Arvind Verma (Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Indiana)
- Rajiv Dhavan (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India)
- Anasuya Sengupta (Graduate Student, Oxford)
- Siddharth Vardarajan (Editor, the Hindu)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Session Four: Alternative Instutions of Law
Moderator: Dr. Sanchita Saxena (Vice Chair, CSAS)
Panelists:
- Marc Galanter (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Vikram Raghavan (World Bank)
- David Gilmartin (North Carolina State)
Session Five: Human Rights
Moderator: Professor Ananya Roy (Associate Dean, UC Berkeley)
Panelists:
- Flavia Agnes (Director, Majlis)
- Colin Gonsalves (Lawyer; Executive Director, Human Rights Law Network)
Keynote Speaker: Justice B.N. Srikrishna (retd. Supreme Court)
Roundtable Session: Case Study of Chhattisgarh
Moderator: Raka Ray (Professor UC Berkeley)
Panelists:
- Justice B.N. Srikrishna (retd. Supreme Court)
- Vishva Ranjan (DGP of Chhattisgarh)
- Nandini Sundar (University of Delhi)
- Sunil Kumar (Editor, Daily Chhattisgarh)
- Dipti Bhatnagar (Students for Justice in Chhatisgarh)
Wrap up
Moderator: Pradeep Chhibber (Professor, UC Berkeley)