Nalsar registrar Vijender Kumar becomes Vice-Chancellor of NLUJAA Assam

NLUJAA Guwahati today selected Nalsar Hyderabad registrar Prof Vijender Kumar as its new vice chancellor. The former UK Commonwealth fellow, MDU Rohtak PhD holder and Kurukshetra University LLM holder Kumar, who is currently a professor of law and head of the centre for family law at Nalsar, was selected from a shortlist on which the other incumbents were Gulbarga University law Prof JS Patil and Banaras Hindu University law professor Prof DP Verma.
A search committee headed by Supreme Court justice Ranjan Gogoi and with Guwahati high court justice Harikesh Singh and former law commission member Mool Chand Sharma, which was formed after the initial VC search committee at the law school was disbanded.
He has  worked on impact of divorce on children, Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage, live-in relationship and its impact in society, custody of children, adoption, doctrine of relationship, re-defined coparcenary under Mitakshara Hindu law, doctrine of pious-obligation, and NRI marriages and am presently working on introduction of matrimonial property laws, pre-nuptial agreement in India and surrogacy related issues.
 

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