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Prof. Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Senior Professor, Department of Political Science
Law and politics, constitutionalism and democracy, social movements and rights, political institutions,
Modern state in comparative perspective.

ujjwalksingh@gmail.com, usingh@polscience.du.ac.in

 

Work Experience

  • 2020 - Present:      Senior Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
  • 2006 - 2020:          Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
  • 2004 - 2006:          Reader, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. Read More

Publications

  • The Election Commission of India: Institutionalising Democratic Uncertainties, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2019. [Co-authored] [ISBN: 9780199494255]
  • Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements (edited), Volume IV of the Peace Studies Series, Sage, Delhi, 2009. [ISBN: 9788178298849]
  • Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to the Laws in India (co-edited with Kamala Sankaran), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2008. [ISBN: 0195692225]. Read More

     

Awards/ Fellowships/ Projects

  • Nehru Memorial Museum & Library Fellowship at Teen Murti Bhawan, New Delhi, January 2002 to November 2004.
  • Felix Scholarship by School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London for research leading to a PhD in Political Studies, October 1992 to September 1996.
  • Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission on qualifying National Educational Test (NET) held in August 1986. Read More

Conference and Seminars

  • Paper on ‘Was there a Nationalist Agenda of Prison Reforms?’ presented in a panel on The History of Colonial Asian Prisons at the 4 Asian Legal History Conference organized by the Hue University of Law, University of Oxford Programme in Asian Laws and Transnational Legal History Group of CUHK LAW’s Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, at the University of Lw, Hue, Vietnam, 26 July 2024.
  • Paper on ‘The Indian Judiciary as an Institution of Sustainable Justice’ in International workshop on ‘Globalising Life World and Sustainable Development in Indian States’, jointly organized by Department of Political Science, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science, Hiroshima University, Japan, 16-17 March 2024.
  • Thematic presentation on ‘Constitutional Pedagogy and Transformative Constitutionalism’ in a workshop on Transformative Constitutionalism and the borderlines of liberalism’ organised by Humboldt University and Freie University Berlin, 6-9 February 2023. Read More

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