Title: Magna Carta and Human Rights - The Legacy of 800+ Years
Editors: Prof. S. Sivakumar, Prashanta B. Barua, Prof. Lisa P. Lukose
Foreword by: Hon’ble Justice Kurian Joseph, Supreme Court of India
Year of Publication: 2018
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Magna Carta and Human Rights: The legacy of 800+ Years is edited volume comprising articles written by Judges, Human Rights Commission Chairpersons and members, Faculty and Students of Law elaborating the significance of Magna Carta in the development of Human Rights and allied legal principals. This book is being published in continuation of the academic celebration of 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta jointly organized by Commonwealth Legal Education Association (Asia- India Chapter) and European college of Law, London. Each article reflects the immense influence the Greater Charter continuously holding in the global legal history.
Title: Disaster Management Laws in SAARC Countries
Editors: Prof. S. Sivakumar, Mr. Manohar Thairani, Prof. Lisa P. Lukose
Foreword by: Hon’ble Justice Arun Mishra, Supreme Court of India
Year of Publication: 2019
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The edited volume ‘Disaster Management Laws in SAARC countries’ contains selected research articles presented in the Third Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon SAARCLAW Mooting Competition and Law Students Conference 2018 organised By Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, with technical support from SAARCLAW and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT). It has fifteen article written by faculty, research scholars and law students of SAARC region highlighting the challenges being faced by SAARC nations due to increasing Disaster Risk and lack of appropriate Disaster Management techniques. These article reflect the real life situation of the people and places affected by natural calamities, identifies the lacunae in the present legal provisions, examines the reasons for ineffective implementation of governmental policies and schemes for Disaster Management in SAARC regions and globally and further, suggests way forwards.
Title: Rights of Indigenous People in SAARC
Editors: Prof. S. Sivakumar, Prof. Lisa P. Lukose and Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Khan
Foreword by: Hon’ble Justice of India A. K. Sikri, Supreme Court of India
Year of Publication: 2019
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The edited volume ‘Rights of Indigenous People in SAARC countries’ contains selected research articles presented in the Second Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon SAARCLAW Mooting Competition and Law Students Conference 2017 organised By Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, with technical support from SAARCLAW and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT). This work is an insight to the complex problem of indigenous peoples' participation in the governance and management of their traditional lands and resources. The book analyses and reviews the relations of indigenous groups within large multiethnic states, especially the South Asian countries like India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The chapters of this work give an understanding common and international nature of the issues faced by indigenous people: The disappearance of diversity and traditional ways of life, ecological degradation, and the loss of vital knowledge about how to live in harmony with the environment.
Title: The Code of Life, Liberty and Dignity in the Indian Constitution
Editors: Prof. S. Sivakumar, Prof. G. Kameswari
Foreword by: Hon’ble Justice R. Banumati, Judge Supreme Court of India
Year of Publication: 2020
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In any democracy, it is the duty of the government to adopt appropriate measures to safeguard life by making laws to protect the life of the country’s citizens. Article 21 of the Constitution of India thus embodies the value of supreme importance. Couched in the negative language, the article states that no one shall deprived of life and personal liberties except procedure established by law. From static, mechanical and purely literal interpretation of the article in Gopalan high watermark of legal positivism in 1950, there has been transformation in the attitude of apex court towards the protection of life and liberty especially aer Maneka in 1978. Article 21, now regarded as the core of fundamental rights, has become source of many substantive rights for the people. Article 21 is a detailed discussion of the evaluation of various facets of the eponymous article over the last 70 years.
Title: Law and Morality: SAARC Perspective
Editors: Prof. S. Sivakumar, Mr. Manohar Thairani, Prof. Lisa P. Lukose
Foreword by: Hon’ble Justice Ashok Bushan, Supreme Court of India
Year of Publication: 2020
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Law and Morality: SAARC Perspective is a collection of 25 articles and invited contributions, ranging from interdisciplinary faculty members to research scholars, and the papers that were presented by law students of SAARC region in SAARCLAW Students’ Conference 2019, which was organized as part of Fourth Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon SAARCLAW Mooting Competition And Law Students’ Conference-2019. This collection is endeavor to strive towards opening up of space for stimulating discussion and deliberation on pertinent aspect of law and morality and the unsettled nexus between the two. The fundamental aim of this compilation is to engage in hermeneutic exercise of tracing the evolution of shifting dynamics vis-à-vis morality and the nature of law in different cultures and social contexts. Ranging from Topic like constitutional morality, gender justice, trade laws, issue of refoulement, rights of the prostitute as well as the LGBT community to discourse of law and morality in international affairs and literary studies, the articles deal with the varied facets of complexities of law- morality nexus on global and interdisciplinary scale. Through these articles, the book engages with the debate surrounding morality, legality, legitimacy and the extent of influence that morals wield over law and vice- versa and strive to initiate a fertile academic discourse around the selected theme.
Title: Gender Justice: A South Asia Perspective
Editors: Prof. (Dr.) S. Sivakumar, Mr. Manohar Thairani, Prof. (Dr.) Lisa P. Lukose
Foreword by: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Indira Banerjee, Supreme Court of India
Year of Publication: 2022
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he edited volume ‘Gender Justice: A South Asia Perspective’ contains selected research articles presented in the Fifth Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon SAARC Mooting Competition and Law Students Conference 2018 organised by Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, with technical support from SAARCLAW and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT). The book. It has twenty eight article written by faculty, research scholars and law students of SAARC region through useful insight on gender justice and highlighting the challenges being faced by SAARC nations in gender equality.