45th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2016 INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (ISIL)

7-8 MAY 2016

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY, 7 MAY 2016

Registration: 9.00 am – 10.00 am Inaugural Function: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

(i) Welcome Address by : Prof. S. K. Verma, Secretary General, ISIL

(ii) Inaugural Address by : Prof. Yogesh K. Tyagi, Vice Chancellor, Delhi University, Delhi

(iii) Presidential Address by: Dr. E. M. S. Natchiappan, President, ISIL

(iv) Vote of thanks by : Dr. R. K. Dixit, EC Member, ISIL

Tea: 11:00 am to 11:15 am

SESSION I: TWO DECADES OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: ISSUES AND

CHALLENGES

11.15 am – 1.00 pm Chair : Prof. A. K. Koul, Former Vice Chancellor, NLU, Jodhpur and NUSRL, Ranchi

Co-Chair & Keynote Address : Dr. Ujal Singh Bhatia, Member, WTO Appellate Body, WTO

Prof. Abhijit Das : Two Decades of the WTO- Indian Experience

Head, Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT, New Delhi

Prof. James Nedumpara : WTO DSS- India’s Participation

Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat

A. Saravanan & Dr. S.R. Subramanian : Role of amicus curiae Participation in the WTO and

International Investment Dispute Settlement IIT, Kharagpur

Deeksha Chaudhary : Trade Facilitation Agreement of WTO: Will It Spur the

Wheels of Indian Trade?

Law Officer, UPSO-1

Swarnim Shrivastava : Finding WTO Remedy for Market Economy of China

Law Clerk cum RA

Competition Appellate Tribunal

Lunch Break: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

SESSION II: THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE: CHALLENGES FOR

THE FUTURE

2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Chair: Prof. B. C. Nirmal, Vice Chancellor, NUSRL, Ranchi

Co-Chair: Shri Sanjay Parikh, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Dr. Anwar Sadat : Paris Agreement- A Different Approach to Deal with the Challenge of Climate Change

Assistant Professor (Senior), ISIL

Dr. Anupam Jha : Paris Agreement and India: Dalliance or Serious Alliance?

Assistant Professor (Senior), DU, Delhi

Ashutosh Raj Anand :Developing Countries Road to Meeting SDG’s in the Context of the 2016 Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Assistant Professor, Amity Law School, Delhi

Chandrika Mehta : Low Carbon Technologies for Our Cities of Future: Examining

Mechanisms for Successful Transfer and Diffusion

Naveen S. : Paris Agreement- Opportunities and Challenges for a Developing

Countries Perspective

Assistant Professor, School of Legal Studies, CUSAT

SESSION III: LAW OF THE SEA: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

3.45 pm – 5.15 pm Chair: Dr. P. S. Rao, President, The Institut de Droit international

Amb. Milan Meetarbhan : Former Ambassador of Mauritius to UN Vijay Jayshwal : Scope and Interpretation of Article 125 of UNCLOS III:

Testing the Legality of Procedural Arrangement Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal

Kanika Kukreti : International Maritime Trade: Contemporary Challenges at

the High Seas LLM, NUJS Vinai Kumar Singh : Dispute Settlement System under the UNCLOS Assistant Professor (Senior), ISIL

SUNDAY, 8 MAY 2016 10.00 am -1.00 pm

SESSION IV: PROTECTION OF REFUGEES: PRESENT CHALLENGES AND

PROBABLE SOLUTIONS: R2P and International Law

Chair: Dr. Kavita Belani, Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR

Keynote address: Rene Boeckli, Deputy Head of Delegation, ICRC, New Delhi

Prof. B. C. Nirmal : Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Responsibility to Protect Refugees Vice Chancellor, NUSRL, Ranchi

Prof. K. Elumalai : Protection of Refugees and victims of Human Trafficking

Director, IGNOU

Priyanka Bose Kanta : The Status and Human Rights Protection on Statelessness

Rohingyas: An Analytical Study under International Law

Lecturer, Department of Law, Eastern University, Dhaka

Harigovind P. C. : Climate Change and Refugee Problems: Some Introductory

Insights

Assistant Professor, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi

Lunch: 1: 00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

General Body Meeting: 2.30 pm