Past events

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics had organized Two Days Workshop on Applied Statistics using ‘R’ Programming language for legal studies - 14th and 15th March 2020 at Gujarat National Law University. The duration of the workshop was 2 days. The workshop has been successfully organized with the great support from our resource persons namely Dr. Dhaval Maheta, Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Industrial Management, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University; and Dr. Hitesh Parmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Sardar Patel University. The motto of the workshop was to equip the participants with the tools of Applied Statistics using R Programming for Legal Studies, with which they will be able to carry out advanced and detailed research activities, which have been duly satisfied. There were a total of 15 participants comprising a mixture of Students, PhD. Scholars, Research Scholars and Faculties from various streams and universities.
  
  Day 1 witnessed an inaugural address from Prof. S. Shanthakumar, Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat National Law University where he mentioned about the relevance of analysis of the quantitative data in the empirical research in the modern research demands. Further, Prof. Ranita Nagar, Centre Director, Centre for Law and Economics addressed the participants and shed some light upon the necessity of analyzing law and policies with quantifiable empirical data and the greater picture it can put forward in the research. On the day 1, the sessions were taken Dr. Hitesh Parmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Sardar Patel University and subsequently the baton was handed over to Dr. Dhaval Maheta, Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Industrial Management, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University for the day 2.

• GNLU CLE organised a One-day seminar on Economic Analysis of Constitutional Law (21st September 2019) with Prof. Dr. Tom Ginsburg, BA, JD and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar and Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. A C. Herman Pritchett and APSA best book prize awardee, he currently directs the Comparative Constitutions Project. Before entering the field of teaching, he served as the legal adviser at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands.
  
  The Seminar on Economic Analysis of Constitutional Law was preceded by Welcome Address by Prof. (Dr.) Mamata Biswal, Dean, Academic affairs, Gujarat National Law University. During the seminar, Prof. Ginsburg Discussed the economic analysis of Constitutional law requires an understanding of the current problems with democracy as well as knowledge on the consequences of decisions regarding the nature of the constitution and its amendments. For instance, current problems of majoritarian laws which often overlook minority opinions requires checks and balances in the governance system.
  
  Dr. Ranita Nagar then highlighted a pertinent problem of various small amendments having the power to change the entire constitutions. To this, Dr. Ginsburg gave a possible solution. Citing examples like that of the Supreme Court during 1970s, Dr. Ginsburg suggested that checks and balances already exist in the current paradigm that keep the basic structure of the constitutions alive.
  
  There were a total 78 participants from various stream and Universities.

"2nd Essay Competition on Law and Economics", Winner's

• "2nd Essay Competition on Law and Economics", Winner's

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics organized a one day seminar with Mr Dhinal Shah and Mr. Vishal N Joishar from Ernst and Young LLP, Ahmedabad and Mumbai respectively, Mr. Vinit Nagar from M/s Vinit Nagar & Co. Erstwhile M/s Dave Nagar & Associates, Ahmedabad on “IBC The Efficiency Mechanism in Practice”, on 27th July 2019.
  
  The Seminar on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was preceded by Welcome Address by Prof. (Dr.) S Shanthakumar, Director, Gujarat National Law University. This was followed by Introduction and brief Background of the IBC by Prof. (Dr.) Mamata Biswal, Dean of Academic Affairs. She briefly discussed emerging issues like conflict between SEBI, NCLT and IBBI and concluded with an emphasis on the need to introduce further reforms in the Code.
  
  The first Guest Speaker for the day was Mr. Dhinal Shah, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, Ahmedabad. He started with reasons for introduction of the IBC in India and stated that our domestic law follows the UK insolvency principle of Debtor in possession to Creditor in Control. The second part of the Seminar was a session on the Bidding Process under IBC – Three Dimensional Art by Mr. Vishal N Joishar, Executive Director, Ernst & Young, Mumbai. Mr. Vinit Nagar, M/s Vinit Nagar & Co., Ahmedabad, the next speaker focused on practical aspects such as filing of application and the process post application under the Code.
  
  Dr. Hiteshkumar Thakkar, Assistant Professor of Economics at GNLU also contributed himself as a resource person. He started the session by posing some questions challenging the understanding of the audience, which was a nice change of pace. He moved to his topic which was Economic Analysis of IBC through various dilemmas such as free entry vs free exit, debtor centric measures vs creditor centric measures, incentive vs sanction and others.
  
  “We live and breathe IBC” declared Prof. (Dr.) Ranita Nagar, Center Director, Centre for Law and Economics at the very beginning of her session. She moved to analyze the NPA problem in India from a historical perspective beginning with Nationalization of banks in 1969.
  The duration of the seminar was 7 hours. There were a total 34 participants from various stream and Universities.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics had organized Workshop on Advanced Applied Statistics using IBM SPSS & IBM SPSS AMOS for Legal Studies (5th to 7th April, 2019 & 12th to 14th April, 2019) at Gujarat National Law University. The duration of the workshop was 36 hours.
  
  The workshop has been successfully organized with the great support from our resource persons namely Dr. Gaurang Rami, Professor, Department of Economics, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University; Dr. Dhaval Maheta, Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Industrial Management, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University; and Dr. Hitesh Parmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Sardar Patel University.
  
  The motto of the workshop was to equip the participants with the tools of Applied Statistics using IBM SPSS & IBM SPSS AMOS for Legal Studies, with which they will be able to carry out advanced and detailed research activities, which have been duly satisfied.
  
  There were a total of 22 participants comprising a mixture of Students, PhD. Scholars, Research Scholars and Faculties from various streams and universities.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics has conducted a “Certificate Course on Economics of International Law” from 25th to 29th March, 2019 at Gujarat National Law University. The duration of the course was 16 hours.
  
  The key resource person for the Course was Prof. Dr. Regis Lanneau, French academician and Co-Director of the Masters Program in Economic Regulation at University Paris Nanterre, France. Dr. Hiteshkumar Thakkar, Assistant Professor of Economics at GNLU also contributed himself as a resource person.
  
  During the certificate course, Dr. Regis Lanneau discussed on various concepts related to economics of international law such as ‘An economic approach: Why do we need international law?’, ‘Customary international law from the point of view of game theory’, ‘International treaties from the point of view of game theory with relevance of a. International treaties and b. the bargaining and content of international treaties’ and Sir had also discussed on should we need a global government for addressing global issues or not?
  
  Dr. Hitesh Thakkar discussed on ‘Issues and challenges of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) in the field of International Economics Law.’
  
  As the evaluation process, participants presented their various projects related to Economics of International law. There were a total of 14 participants consist of students and academics from GNLU and outside.
  
  Centre had also organized an open session on “Economic Analyses of Law of the Sea” in continuation of certificate course.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics had organized an Open Session on “Empirical Legal Methods in Criminal Law” on 19th March, 2019 at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The said session was for one and half hour. The resource person for the lecture was Prof. (Dr.) Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law, National Law University, Delhi. During the session, sir had discussed and elaborated about sentencing policy in India with regards to rape offenders. Sir emphasized on the rape law amendments during the year 1984 to 2013 as well as in the year 2018. He also explained about the various committee recommendations on the Uniform Sentencing Policy. The said session had been organized specially for 2016 batch of GNLU students. However, students from other universities had also attended the lecture.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics had organized a skype lecture on “Economics of Crime” on 26th February, 2019 at Gujarat National Law University. The duration of lecture was one hour. The resource person for the lecture was Professor Nuno Garoupa, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development & Faculty Director of Graduate Studies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.
  
  During the session, sir had discussed about incentives, normative analysis, cost analysis, probability and rationality in law and economics. Sir had commented with one sentence “We prefer Certain against Uncertain” with regards to probability and sanctions.
  
  The said lecture had been organized specially for 2016 batch of GNLU students. The Centre members of Centre for Law and Economics and SRDC members were also the part of the session.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics had organized a skype lecture on “Agency Cost” on 22nd January, 2019 at Gujarat National Law University. The duration of lecture was 1 hour. The resource person for the lecture was Prof. Ehud Kamar, Professor of Law and Director of the Batya and Isachar Fischer Center for Corporate Governance and Capital Market Regulation, Tel Aviv University. During the session, sir had discussed and elaborated that how the idea of Corporate Law used for minimizing agency cost in the firm. The lecture had been organized specially for 2016 batch of GNLU students.

• The GNLU Centre for Law & Economics had organized “3rd Annual Quiz on Law & Economics” on 12th October 2018 as the part of its capacity building programme.
  
  This year, the quiz saw a large number of participants with 28 teams. The first round consisted of 20 Multiple-Choice questions to be answered by every team while the second round saw each team answering questions designed to have one-word or one-sentence answers. The third round gave an opportunity to the 5 qualifying teams to apply economic tools to a hypothetical situation and was adjudged by Dr. Ranita Nagar and Dr. Hitesh Thakkar.
  
  Centre has given prize money in a total amount to 12000/- rupees to first five winning teams. Top 2 teams reached an impasse owing to the non-cooperative outcomes, the 1st position remains unclaimed. At the second position, there were two teams consists of Samira Mathias & Ruha Shetty, Sanchit Suri & Ashwini Kumar Tak. A team of Smrithi Bhaskar & Shruti Trikanad secured the third position. On fourth and fifth position, there were teams of Samidha Mathur & Renuka Naik, Anuraag Pillai & Shubham Tiwary respectively.
  
  The Quizmasters were Shivdutt Trivedi & Shikhar Maniar.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics had organized Training Programme on “Advanced Applied Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics for Legal Studies” from 13th to 16th September 2018. The duration of the course was 22 hours. The key resource person for the Course was Dr. Guarag Rami, Professor, Department of Economics, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. Dr. Viral Pandya, Co-Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs Associate Professor of Management, GNLU; Dr. Vipul Patel, Associate Professor, Shanti Business School, VU-GNU Centre of Excellence, Ahmadabad and Dr. Ritesh Patel, Assistant Professor, Centre for Governance Systems, GTU had also given their contribution as a resource persons to make this training programme more successful. The motto of the training programme was to encourage the participants towards more on empirical research by use of IBM SPSS Statistic.
  
  During the sessions of four days, Dr. Gaurang Rami had broadly covered topics which includes types of data and scale of measurements, questionnaire preparation and introduction of IBM SPSS statistics, frequency distribution and charts, descriptive statistics of measures of central tendency and measures of dispersions, multiple response analysis, parametric tests and non-parametric tests, correlation analysis, analysis of association, regression analysis, multivariate analysis and lastly time series analysis.
  
  Dr. Viral Pandya sir had covered Contemporary Case Analysis, Dr. Vipul Patel had covered Developing Scales in research while Dr. Ritesh Patel had covered Cluster Analysis with SPSS.
  
  There were a total of 16 participants comprising a mixture of Students, PhD. Scholars, Research Scholars and Faculties from various streams.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics has conducted a “Certificate Course on Economics of Constitutional Law” from 27th to 31st August, 2018. The duration of the course was 15 hours. The resource person for the Course was Prof. Dr. Regis Lanneau, French academician and Director of undergraduate program in Law and Economics as well as co-director of the Masters Program in Economic Regulation at University Paris West Nanterre la Defense. Dr. Hiteshkumar Thakkar, Assistant Professor of Economics at GNLU also contributed himself as a resource person. During the course, participants got ideas about tools and techniques used in the study of Economics of Constitutional law. This certificate course covered various topics like representation and democratic election, understanding the legislative process, rent seeking and constitutions matter for economic development etc. Apart from that as a evaluation process, participants presented their various projects related to Economics of Constitutional law. There were a total of 57 participants including participants from outside India.

• GNLU Centre for Law and Economics has conducted a “Training Programme on Applied Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics for legal Studies” from 03 - 04 February, 2018. The duration of the course was 12 hours. Dr. Gaurang Rami, Professor of Economics, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University was the resource person for the training programme. It basically focused upon different Data Types, Measures of Location, Variability, Shape and Association between variables, Descriptive Statistics, Multiple Response Analysis, Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis.

• Center for Law and Economics has organized a 'Certificate Course on Economics of Regulation and Globalisation' on 12th February 2018. The duration of the course was 15 hours, spread across lectures from 12th to 16th February 2018. The Guest Faculty for the Course is Prof. Dr. Regis Lanneau. He is a respected French academician and Director of undergraduate program in Law and Economics as well as co-director of the Masters Program in Economic Regulation at University Paris West Nanterre la Defense. The Certificate Course addressed questions ranging from accountability standards to environmental and human rights treaties, to WTO regulation and arbitration.

• CLE conducted a quiz on Law & Economics as part of its capacity building programme on 13th September 2017 within GNLU itself. This year, the quiz saw a large number of participants with 28 teams. The first round consisted of 20 Multiple-Choice questions to be answered by every team while the second round saw each team answering questions designed to have one-word or one-sentence answers.
  
  The final and deciding round gave an opportunity to the 4 qualifying teams to apply economic tools to a hypothetical situation and was adjudged by Dr. Ranita Nagar, Dr. Hitesh Thakkar and Prof. Marisport The first prize went to Anushka Shah and Sanskriti Sanghvi, Vijetha Hosamani and Gaurav Manikesh were declared Runners-Up and the third place went Muizz Drabu and Siddhant Khetawat. The quiz was conducted by Shivdutt Trivedi and Sanchit Suri.

• CLE initiated Certificate Course on Economic Analysis of Regulations in March 2017.The Guest Faculty for the Course was Dr. Regis Lanneau. The other resource persons of the course include Prof. (Dr.) Ranita Nagar, Dean of Research Department and Director of Centre for Law & Economics and Dr. Hiteshkumar Thakkar, Assistant Professor of Economics at GNLU.

• The Centre for Law and Economics at Gujarat National Law University organized a quiz on Law and Economics as part of its capacity building objective. The quiz was conducted on the 29th of August 2016. Prize Money of Rs. 2000, Rs. 1500 and Rs. 1000 was offered to teams securing the first, second and third place respectively. 20 Teams of enthusiasts participated in the quiz. The winner of this quiz competition was a team of two second year students- Armaan Gupta and Akhila Anand. Muizz Drabu and Siddhant Khetawat were runners up and Nikhila Dewasthale and Aditi Gupta bagged the third position. The quiz was conducted by Shivansh Agarwal, Ifrah Shaikh, Vishal Sinha and Mrudul Desai

• CLE organized a week-long course in January 2015 on Principles of Law & Economics which could be applied to Construction Contracts. The course was designed to give the recipients both a holistic view of Law & Economics as a discipline and provide opportunities to explore specific areas that are affected by its application.
  
  The resource person for the Course was Dr. Henrik Lando, Professor of Law & Economics, Copenhagen Business School in the Department of Law, CBS, Department of Private Law, and University of Oslo. Secondly, never before had an event seen the collaboration of a National Law University, an Indian Institute of Management and an Indian Institute of Technology.

• CLE has organized an Advanced Course in Law and economics in January 2014 with Dr. Ariel Porat as the as the key resource person. He is Alain Poher Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University and Fischel- Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.