Indian Democracy: Justice & the Law - Agenda

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) 
  • Law & Justice : A Look at the Role & Performance of Indian Judiciary
• 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) 
  • Anatomy of Riots: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach
  • Measuring Police Efficiency in India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis
  • Policing Elections in India
• 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) 
  • Election Law and the People
  • 'One Day's Sultan':T. N. Seshan and the Reform of the Election Commission in the 1990s

Session Five: Human Rights
Moderator: Professor Ananya Roy (Associate Dean, UC Berkeley)
Panelists:

• Flavia Agnes (Director, Majlis)
  • From Shahbano to Kausar Bano – Contextualizing the ‘Muslim Woman’ within a communalised polity
  • The Bar Dancer and the Trafficked Migrant
• 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)
  • Between Left and Right
  • It’s Not Just War
  • Bastar, Maoism and Salwa Judum
  • Who are Dantewada’s prisoners?
  • 'More violence since Salwa Judum started' (ET interview)
  • Afterword:Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar
• Sunil Kumar (Editor, Daily Chhattisgarh)
• Dipti Bhatnagar (Students for Justice in Chhatisgarh)

Wrap up     
Moderator: Pradeep Chhibber (Professor, UC Berkeley)