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Prof. Dr. A. Lakshminath, Chancellor, A. P. University of Law, Visakhapatnam and Pro-Chancellor/Vice-Chancellor, Chanakya National Law University, Patna, former Dean and Registrar, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad is an academic in the field of law for four decades and has done substantial research in the areas of Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence and Human Rights. He has authored ten books and one hundred articles and edited seven law journals. He has been actively engaged in research and teaching both at the graduate and postgraduate levels since 1967 and was awarded the ‘Best Researcher Award’. He has guided 500 LL.M. dissertations and 345 project reports. He is fellow of Salzburg Seminar, Austria and Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. and Visiting Professor at Law School, Banaras Hindu University. He visited Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, U.K. and U.S.A. on academic assignments and participated in 120 national and international conferences/seminars/workshops. He presided over and delivered keynote addresses in eighty academic meets including four at Boston, Austin (U.S.A.) and Tokyo. He is Visiting Faculty for institutions of excellence.
He was Dean, Faculty of Law, Andhra University and Nagpur University. He was a member of the Boards of Studies in Law in several universities and was Chairman, Boards of Studies in Law in Andhra University and Nagpur University. He has successfully guided fifty seven scholars out of whom, fifty five were awarded Ph.D. degrees in law and two were awarded LL.D. degrees. He was Chief Co-ordinator and Senior Consultant in World Bank, National and State sponsored projects. He was Project Director for the National Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Literacy Program. He was senior Consultant for Projects on good governance sponsored by Andhra Pradesh State Government. He is the recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award by International Association of Educators for World Peace, Alabama, USA, 2007 and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Award, 2008 for outstanding contributions in the promotion of technical, vocational and General Education in India. He is the nominated Governor on the Board of Governors of Doon School, Dehradun. He is President of some voluntary and non-governmental organisations too. |
