Professor GS Bajpai, faculty member, National Law University, Delhi and its former Registrar and present Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi National Law University, Punjab has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of National Law University Delhi for a term of five years.
Prof. Bajpai has authored eighteen books; more than eighty papers; and more than ninety op-eds in leading dailies like Indian Express, the Hindu, the Tribune etc. His books are: ‘Witness & Criminal Justice Systems’, ‘On Cyber Crime & Cyber Law’, ‘Situational Crime Prevention & Crime Reduction’ and ‘Victimological Narratives on Gender Violence’ (2014), Victim Justice- A Paradigm Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System” and “Judgments that Shaped the India Jurisprudence” published (2017) by Thomson & Reuters. His most recent books (2019) ‘Living on the Edge’ and ‘Juvenile Justice’ (Bloomsbury) have been well-received. He is the Editor of two prestigious international journals: Journal of Victimology & Victim Justice (published by Sage Publications) and Indian Journal of Criminology, a publication of the Indian Society of Criminology since 1972.
Prof. Bajpai has held many prestigious international assignments for advanced criminal law and criminal justice research. He has been to the University of Paris (France) under UGC Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme (1999) to work on ‘Victim’s position in the French Criminal Justice System’. He also received the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester, the U.K., for advanced research and teaching (in Crime reduction) for 2003-04. Dr. Bajpai also visited International Victimology Institute, Tokiwa University, Japan to deliver lectures in July 2007. He was also selected under the Indo-Russia Cultural Exchange programme to visit St. Petersburg (2007) and Indo-Hungarian Cultural Exchange Programme in Budapest (2009). In 2010, Prof. Bajpai was conferred a visiting fellowship of ICSSR under the Indo-NWO Exchange of Scholars. Under this visit, he carried out significant research at the International Victimology Institute, Faculty of Law, the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Besides visiting the International Criminal Court at Hague, Prof Bajpai delivered key lectures at several universities like VU University, Amsterdam.
He was identified by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, to author a case study on ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy’ which was published by the Cambridge Press, US. He made a key presentation at the Asian Law Institute Conferences held at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (June 2014), Manila (2017), Seoul (2018), New Delhi (2020) Asian Society of Criminology Conferences at Hong Kong (2018) and World Society of Victimology Conference ( 2019). He visited the Faculty of Law / Criminology at the University of Wurzburg, Germany in January 2015 as a visiting professor under the German Academic Exchange Programme.
As a part of the academic collaboration, he has made significant presentations at the Centre for Criminology, the University of Oxford and the Department of Criminology & Law, Sheffield Hallam University U.K. on the issues of Post-Delhi Gang-Rape Legal Reforms and Victim Justice.
As a very significant achievement, Prof. Bajpai worked as the ‘Co-Principal Investigator’ of the MHRD-UGC, E-PG Pathshala Project, and led the creation of online e-text and video lectures on 367 modules of fifteen papers for PG level courses in Law. He has also completed E-PG Pathshala Project on Criminology as Principal Investigator, where he led the creation of 350 e-texts and a similar number of video lectures for twelve postgraduate-level papers on criminology. He worked as Principal Investigator to lead the creation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for various subjects in law, where thousands of learners have benefitted from these courses.
Prof. Bajpai also contributed significantly to police training research. He successfully implemented a series of Vertical Interaction Courses for IPS officers and coordinated training projects with Sheffield Hallam University.
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