Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran on Saturday launched the Sastra University’s School of Law’s initiative to conduct research on legal anthropology and advised students to expand their knowledge beyond legal boundaries.
Mr. Parasaran inaugurated a Research Chair on Legal Anthropology with a seed corpus of Rs. 50 lakh to conduct research in the interdisciplinary field of legal anthropology at a function in the university in Thanjavur. He also inaugurated three scholarship schemes named in memory of legal legends — Justice Patanjali Sastri, Nani Palkhivala and G. Ramaswami. The best students of Sastra’s BB.A. LLB B.Com. LLB & B.B.A., LLB programme will be awarded a citation and a cash prize of Rs. 1,00,000 under this initiative, he said.
Tracing the history of successful jurists, Mr. Parasaran delivered a special lecture on “Being a Successful Jurist.” He narrated his experiences and evolutionary success stories of leading jurists.
Justice S. Nagamuthu, Judge, Madras High Court, offered his felicitations and stressed on the importance of judiciary’s alignment with socio-cultural underpinnings.
Eminent columnist S. Gurumurthy, who has also been appointed Research Chair Professor at Sastra University, stressed on the importance of studying the convergence of law and anthropology.
S. Vaidhyasubramaniam, Dean, Sastra University, told The Hindu that the objective of establishing the endowment was to trace the contours of political, social, theological and cultural models of anthropology and interlinking them with constitutional law.
