Prof. (Dr.) Usha Tandon Has Appointed As The First Vice-Chancellor Of Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University, Prayagraj.

Professor (Dr) Usha Tandon, who has prevoisuly worked as a Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi has recently appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University, Prayagraj. Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Utter Pradesh had announced last year that the National Law University coming of Prayagraj will be named after the country’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad and said that the The NLU at Prayagraj will emerge as a good centre of research. Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University Prayagraj one is set to become the second National Law Univeristy of the state of Utter Pradesh.

Prof. (Dr) Usha Tandon, Vice Chacellor of Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University, Prayagraj has been working as an eminent Professor of Environmental Law, Population Law, Gender Justice and Family Law from more than 30 years in academia. She is the recipient of “World Population Day Award, 2000” and “Phenomenal She, 2019”, she served as Professor-in-Charge of Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi (2013-2019) and the Director of a Five-Year Law School- Vivekananda Law School, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi (2005). She also holds professional memberships with Population Association of America, MD, USA; South Asian Law Schools Forum for Human Rights (founder member) Kathmandu; All India Law Teachers Congress, New Delhi (founder member); Indian Law Institute, New Delhi (life member) Institute for Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, New Delhi (life member) and Indian Society for International Law, New Delhi.

She has been the Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg, Germany,(2011); International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, (2007) and has to her credit Ciedhu which specializes her in the university human rights teaching. She has authored/edited several books on various aspects of law relating to environmental protection and women rights viz. Energy Law (Oxford University Press) ; Biodiversity Law (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group); Climate Change (Eastern Book Company); Gender Justice (Regal Publications); and Human Trafficking Law (Central Law Agency). As an expert from India, she participated in the International Symposium in South Korea (August, 2014) , Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal in the deliberations on the curriculum for “Human Rights of Women” (2003). She had been invited by the Royal Court of Bhutan as a Guest of Honour to participate in the inauguration of the new Supreme Court of Bhutan, by the Indian Prime Minister on 15th June, 2014.