Traversing the Trial - Law and Justice in a Globalizing World

This book details the temporal transformations in modernity as they have manifested in social structures and relationships. Globalization has created a new reality in the image of the new-age truth—the reality of pluralism which has transformed the way human relations have been organized. There has been a surge of new values and new ideas. All these have collectively formed a new consciousness. This book captures the said consciousness in its totality through its various manifestations in various domains on human socialization. The authors of the book provide broader generalizations on globalization, situating it through various standpoints, and particular analyses of how globalization has impacted particular domains. They have provided tales of resistance, adaptations, coexistences, and contestations. The major themes that will be addressed are: The rise and/or fall of social institutions; discovering global identities; global sensibilities: nihilism or hope?; cultural nostalgia and the yearning for the past; epistemological crisis in law: fragmentation, segmentation, and the loss of exclusivity. Additionally, the third section of the book is dedicated for author-meditations on SDGs. This type of a study is relevant, as time is ripe for a stocktaking—for globalization has set in as an endless evolution—of the human willing and acting in a globalizing word. It is its temporal lens, the way of looking at things, which makes this book contemporaneous. 

Prof. (Dr.) S.G. Sreejith is Professor and Dean, Strategy and Institution-Building & Director of Endowment Development & Philanthropic Initiatives, Office of the Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University). He holds LL.D. (with high honours) from the University of Lapland, M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.B.L. and LL.B. both from the University of Kerala. Prior to joining JGLS, he worked with reputed institutions like the Arctic Centre, the University of Lapland, National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), and the University of Kerala. He is the author of “Transcending Jurisprudence: A Critique of the Architectonics of International Law” (Lapland: Lapland University Press, 2010). He has also published in journals like Third World Quarterly, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, San Diego International Law Journal, California Western International Law Journal, Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, Journal of Space Law, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review, Air and Space Law, Space Policy, Journal of Law and Social Deviance, Indian Journal of International Law, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, to name few. He sat on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of International Law (Springer). He has also served as special issue editor of Journal of Human Values (Sage) and Jindal Global Law Review (Springer).

Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik is Professor of International Law & Registrar of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat, India. He is also the Executive Director, Centre for South Asian Legal Studies at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University. Prof Sridhar Patnaik is an alumnus of Andhra University, University of Hyderabad, Indian Academy of International Law and Diplomacy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a consortium of Universities of Turin, Vienna, and Madrid. In addition to conducting teaching and research on areas of international law and comparative law, Prof. Sridhar Patnaik consulted for the UNDP Kabul and the Ministry of External Affairs. He held number of prestigious fellowships by the UN, ILO, ICRC, Hague Academy of International Law, Social Science Research Council, New York in collaboration with Harvard, Columbia, and Tufts Universities in addition to a stint at the International Law Commission, UN Geneva; and serves as the member of editorial boards of eminent journals on international law and international humanitarian law including being member of the Governing Councils of Delhi University Colleges. Prof. Sridhar Patnaik is an invited speaker/lecturer at Universities around the world and has published widely. He is also a visiting professor at the Indian Academy of International Law and Diplomacy and the Foreign Service Institute. As Registrar of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sridhar contributes to the development and implementation of academic and administrative strategies for the University to meet the aspirations of the University's stakeholders. He is responsible for overseeing academic and administrative matters within the University and in providing a suitable direction in this regard. In his leadership, the University has grown significantly.

Ishita Khetarpal is Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. She has a Bachelor of Law degree from IP University, New Delhi, India; and a Master of Laws (LLM), focused on Intellectual Property Law, from National Law University, Jodhpur. Her areas of research interest include international law, private law and criminal law.