A talk by Abhishek Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.
The talk will be followed by a conversation between Dr. Singhvi and Sonia Katyal, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research at UC Berkeley School of Law
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About the Speaker
Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi is an eminent jurist, politician, visible media personality, well-known columnist, author, thinker, and commentator. He is a Member of Parliament (third-term), the senior most National Spokesperson of the Congress Party and the youngest designated Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India (at age 34). He was the youngest Additional Solicitor General of India at the young age of 37 and a former elected Vice President of the Supreme Court Bar Association. Additionally, Dr. Singhvi was also the former Vice Chairman of Congress’ Media Department, and the former Chairman of the AICC, Human Rights Department, and the Parliamentary Committee on Law, Justice, Personnel & Grievances. He has also been a member of the Indian Supreme Court, where he created and administered bilateral legal forums, including the Indo-British, Indo-US, Indo-Canadian and Indo-Israel forums. After obtaining his B.A. (Economics) degree from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, Dr. Singhvi went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK and Harvard University, U.S.A., respectively. He has taught at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, and had joined a brief summer program at Harvard University as well. He has delivered lectures to student/faculty groups and general audiences at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Boston, MIT and George Washington Universities, as well as NGOs and think-tanks, and has addressed several international conferences, including those at Paris and Pakistan. He was a visiting Trumbull Lecturer at Yale University, USA, in 2011 and is currently an Honorary Adjunct Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University.
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PARKING INFORMATION
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
