Visiting Fellowships at JNU New Delhi

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Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawahar Lal Nehru

University, New Delhi invites Visiting Fellowships

Applications are invited from interested scholars for a Visiting

Fellowships programme at the Centre, instituted with the support of

the Ford Foundation. Under this programme scholars can spend a period of six

months to a year, pursuing research in the broad areas of the Centre's research

foci, which are follows:

1. Globalisation and governance: institutions of global

governance, multilateral institutions, international trade and environmental

regimes, and their impact on national sovereignty;

2. Democracy and civil society: the role of civil society in

deepening democracy and in the process of governance accountability and

legitimacy of governing institutions; mapping civil society in

India; citizenship and human rights;

3. Legal framework for development: legal institutions as social and

cultural institutions; the political economy of law making; economic

efficiency and social principles underlying legal reasoning; the

impact of the legal framework and legal processes on the rights, entitlements

and social opportunities of citizens; the rule of law, access to justice; the

relationship between the public and private sector (including privatization,

regulatory regimes and deregulation), relationship between legal and economic

development.

4. State institutions and governance: multi-layered governance,

including local governance; administrative reform and issues public

management; traditional and modern institutions for self-governance,

conflict-resolution and the management of natural resources.

The Centre provides Visiting Fellows with a maintenance allowance of

Rs.20,000 per month, office facilities, and a possible grant for

empirical research. Interested scholars may apply as the earliest.

Please send your applications with a full curriculum vitae and

copies of relevant publications to:

The Chairperson,

Centre for the Study of Law and Governance,

Jawaharlal Nehru University,

New Delhi – 110 067.

Email: dir_cslg@...

URL: www.jnu.ac.in/cslg