NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “TRACING THE IDEA OF JUSTICE FROM THE PRE INDEPENDENCE PERIOD TO THE 75TH YEAR OF INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE” by TNNLU

About TNNLU

TNNLU is located in Srirangam Taluk of the Tiruchirappalli Corporation, formerly known as Trichinopoly. The Government of Tamil Nadu established this institution of learning by an Act of State Legislature (Act No. 9 of 2012) to provide quality legal education. TNNLU commenced functioning from the academic year 2013-2014. TNNLU offers two five years integrated under Graduate Programmes, B.A. LLB. (Hons.) & B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.) and three one-year LL.M. Programmes:- Corporate and Securities Laws, Intellectual Property Laws and Natural Resources Laws. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recognized and approved TNNLU under Section 2(f) and under Section 12 B of the UGC Act, 1956. TNNLU has received recognition from the Bar Council of India (BCI) for the programmes it offers.

TNNLU aims to develop among the students and faculty a sense of responsibility to society through an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law. TNNLU is a fully residential University with separate hostels for men and women. TNNLU library has an updated Web OPAC system, Remote Access facility, and air-conditioned discussion rooms. TNNLU is a member of Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Asian Law Institute and Indian Academy of Social Sciences (permanent member). TNNLU is also an impaneled institution with the Competition Commission of India.

About the Legal Centre for History of South India

The Centre is the brainchild of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. (Dr.) V.S. Elizabeth who is a Professor of History and has teaching experience of nearly 40 years. In the year 2020, the Government of Tamil Nadu sanctioned an initial grant to set up a Legal Centre for History of South India at TNNLU and the Centre was established in the same year. The Centre is located in the capital of the Cholas in the Sangam period, i.e., in the 3rd Century B.C. It passed through the hands of the Pallavas, the imperial Cholas, the Pandyas, the Delhi Sultanate, and the rulers of Vijayanagara. Tiruchirappalli was also a battlefield in the Carnatic Wars of the 18th century during the administration of the East India Company.
Legal Centre for History of South India, TNNLU, Tiruchirappalli is the first of its kind among the National Law Universities, setup exclusively for collecting data on the legal history of South India in general, and specifically of the Legal History of Tamil Nadu.
The Centre’s mission is to carry out in-depth research, initiate discussion, and discourse upon several areas of legal heritage and to understand their relevance to today’s legal system, as well as to provide training in the teaching of legal history and a platform for
exchange of information.

Objectives:

The main objective of the Centre is to undertake research in the field of legal history of South India.
To conduct conferences,seminars and workshopsto promote teaching and learning in legal history.
To attract and encourage students of law to take up research in the field of legalhistory of South India.

About the Conference:

The concept of justice has been debated upon for millennia. It has been one of the most exciting and controversial ideas. It has been debated on at least three fronts. In the first place, in terms of what constitutes justice. As a second point, the concept of justice has been affected by normative evaluations; accordingly, various explanations of justice have been predisposed to the normative impetuses of the commentators. Third, the topic of what constitutes justice has been at the centre of the debate over good laws. An analytical breadth has been reached on the question of what are excellent laws when justice at the practical level is always given according to the law. Every society’s definition of justice has evolved through time. In India, societies evolved an understanding of justice throughout the past from the evolution of the conception of justice as unequal castes, genders, and communities in pre-modern times to ideas of justice based on English Legal Principles in modern times; and justice as expanding capacities in
post-modern times. Political ideologies, religious beliefs, cultural intolerance, poverty and hunger, gender discrimination, abuses of human rights, and inequality, among other social handicaps, have prevented common people’s access to justice even since independence.

Theme

The theme is “Tracing the Idea of Justice from the Pre-Independence period to the 75th year of India’s Independence”. Participants are free to write on any topic directly connected to the central theme and objectives of the Conference.

Eligibility
The conference is open to students(UG and PG), Research Scholars and Academicians.

Registration

The Registration Fee for Students is Rs. 300/ and Rs. 500/- for Research Scholars and Academicians.
An abstract of 300 – 500 words with a maximum of five key words must be submitted within 11:59 PM on or before 18 March 2022 in the registration link given below.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/r74RC2SwLrsdka9x7