C. Raj Kumar

Chockalingam Raj Kumar is an Indian academic administrator who is the founding vice-chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University^[1][2] in Sonipat, Haryana, India, and the dean of the Jindal Global Law School.^[3][4]

C. Raj Kumar

He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Previously, he has consulted United Nations University, Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme; and the International Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva, National Human Rights Commission of India.^[5][6]

Kumar works in the fields of human rights and development, comparative constitutional law, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, legal education and higher education.^[7] He has nine books and over two hundred publications to his credit and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, UK and the US.

Education and career

Kumar received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University of Oxford,^[8] where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law degree; a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School,^[9] where he obtained his Master of Laws degree.^[10] He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, Chennai, India.^[11][12] He also was a research fellow at the NYU Law School.^[10][8]

He was appointed as the vice chancellor in 2009 when the university was established. Kumar conceived the idea of establishing India's first global university and with the philanthropic support (US$100 million) of Mr. Naveen Jindal, established JGU in Sonipat, Haryana, in 2009.

Books

• Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance (2011), published by the Oxford University Press^[13]
• Legal Education and Legal Profession During and After COVID-19, (2022), Singapore, Springer.^[14]
• Global Higher Education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and Challenges (2022), New Delhi, Springer.^[15]
• The Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives (2017), New Delhi, Oxford University Press.^[16]
• The Education President: Institution Building for Nation Building (2016) (Co-Author-Universal Law Publishing & LexisNexis.^[17]
• Terrorism, Human Security and Development: Human Rights Perspectives (forthcoming, 2012), to be published by the United Nations University Press, approx. 300 pages (co-editor)
• Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment (January 2007) published by the Oxford University Press, 520 pages (authored two chapters) (co-editor).^[18]
• The President of India and The Governance of Higher Education Institutions (2016) (edited), published by Universal Law Publishing (an imprint of LexisNexis).^[19]
• Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment (January 2007) published by the Oxford University Press^[20]
• Tsunami and Disaster Management: Law and Governance (September 2006) published by Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia^[21]
• Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance (July 2006) published by LexisNexis (Butterworths)^[22]

Articles in newspapers and magazines

1. "Transforming India’s higher education sector”, The Indian Express, May 31, 2024.^[23]
2. "Happy Birthday Kapil Dev: Leader in Cricket, Leader in Life”, The Indian Express, January 13, 2024.^[24]
3. "Reimagine Universities to tap India’s Youth Bulge”, The Hindustan Times, January 04, 2024.^[25]
4. "Protecting Basic Structure from Judicial Arbitrariness”, The Indian Express, December 11, 2023.^[26]
5. "UGC proposal: Why India should not outsource higher education to foreign universities”, The Indian Express, January 10, 2023.^[27]
6. "India at 2047: Building the Future of Legal Education and Legal Profession”, The Daily Guardian, January 03, 2023.^[28]
7. "A letter to the new CJI, D Y Chandrachud: Five important tasks confront the 50th Chief Justice of India as he assumes office”, The Indian Express, November 08, 2022.^[29]
8. "Building a Globally Respected Legal System by 2047”, Education World, November 2023.^[30]
9. "Resisting attack on judiciary’s independence”, The Tribune, October 10, 2022.^[31]
10. "Livestreaming Supreme Court Proceedings: A step closer to a stronger democracy”, The Indian Express, October 04, 2022.^[32]
11. “India-UK ties at 75: Looking back, moving forward”, The Asian Age, June 14, 2022.^[33]
12. “India’s National Education Policy: Rhetoric and the reality”, The Times Of India, July 30, 2021.^[34]
13. “New education panel will help implement NEP more effectively”, The Deccan Chronicle, July 30, 2021.^[35]
14. “The vision of the National Education Policy must be served by its implementation”, The Indian Express, July 29, 2021.^[36]
15. “The way forward for implementing NEP”, The Tribune, July 28, 2021.^[37]
16. “NEP, one year later: Promises to keep and miles to go”, The Deccan Herald, July 28, 2021.^[38]
17. “Indian universities need immediate vaccination”, The Hindu, April 14, 2021.^[39]
18. “A university is not supposed to be a profit-driven corporation”, The Indian Express, April 3, 2021.^[40]
19. “Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar: An outstanding legal mind imbued with a vision”, The Tribune, March 31, 2021.^[41]
20. “The role of the university: Nation needs it, and it can only thrive with academic freedom and institutional autonomy”, The Times Of India, March 22, 2021.^[42]