Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao will be appointed as NLUO Cuttack’s vice chancellor (VC).A search committee chaired by Supreme Court Justice V Gopala Gowda, with NLU Delhi VC Ranbir Singh and Delhi Judicial Academy chairman BT Kaul as members selected Rao to head NLUO after former VC V Nagaraj left the institution. He is selected from a shortlist of five incumbents including Gulbarga University Department of Law Prof JS Patil, IIT Kharagpur Prof Khushal Vibhute, IGNOU director law K Elumalai, and Jagannath University Jaipur vice chancellor VK Agarwal.
Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao is currently the Registrar of the National Law University, Delhi from August 2010. Prof Rao holds a Master’s degree in Law from Kakatiya University, Master of Philosophy in Law from NLS, Bangalore and PhD from DU.
Prof. Rao was the founding Director of School of Law at IGNOU, New Delhi from May 2007 to May 2010. He has worked with three National Law Schools in India; Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, in addition to a short stint at Delhi University and the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
A member of the UGC expert committee to transform legal education in India, He was a consultant to the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Swedish Development Cooperation (SDC), Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT), Child Rights and You (CRY) and Swedish National Science Foundation (SNSF). His areas of specialisation include Criminal Law, Human Rights, Community Legal Education and Law, Science and Technology.