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• Mr. Shivaraj is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be a University). He holds an LLM (with First Rank and a Gold Medal) from Karnataka State Law University and a BALLB from Karnataka University Dharwad. Before joining JGLS, Mr. Shivaraj worked as a tutor at the School of Law, Durham University (UK). He also worked as a Research Fellow at the National Judicial Academy of India, Bhopal for over three years, where he designed and delivered over 20 judicial training programmes in the form of conferences, workshops, and retreats for various levels of judges from India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

   

  Mr. Shivaraj’s PhD research foregrounds the implications of judicial conduct regulation regimes on judicial independence and accountability in India and the UK. It examines “judicial independence” and “judicial accountability” from a regulatory perspective. Publications emerging from his PhD research emphasise that judicial conduct regulation regimes should adequately emphasise all three facets of judicial independence: individual, internal, and institutional. In this respect, as his research demonstrates, the regulatory regimes in India undermine individual and internal judicial independence. Whereas the regulatory regimes in the UK, despite recent reforms, underemphasize internal judicial independence. Mr. Shivaraj also has publications on the contemporary problems facing the Indian judiciary, alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, and the principles of natural justice.