Seminar on Corporate Governance and CSR Compliance under Companies Act, 2013, and Release of Book titled "A Review of Laws Relating to Tourism in India"

The Legal Entrepreneurship Cell of ALS-N is hosting an event, the poster of which is attached. Company Secretaries and CEOs of several organizations will be arriving for this event, and will address the audience on issues including, but not limited to, Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. 

A book edited by Major General Nilendra Kumar. titled A Review of Laws Relating to Tourism in India, will also be released at this meet. Those who have contributed to the book are invited to attend the function, and may bring guests as well. The contributors will have the opportunity to meet the Founder President of Amity University, Dr. A. K. Chauhan. The contributors will also receive a copy of the book, published by Thomson Reuters.  

This book is the first and only one of its kind, and contains articles on current aspects relevant to growth of tourism. The focus of this book is on medical, adventure and religious tourism. It is a compendium of all statutory laws concerning travel & tourism, and has been published by Thomson & Reuters.

The book is being released at 1100 hours on Wednesday, the 5th of November, 2014, at I-2 Moot Court Hall, Amity University, sector-125, Noida. Everybody who wishes to attend the event is welcome to do so.

A list of those who contributed towards the book is as follows: 

• Faculty. Bhavna Batra,Swati Bijawat, Alok Verma, Ruchi Sharma, Kavita Surbhi,Manika Kamthan
• Students. KR Avinash,Hitesh Bhat,Akshay Abrol,Gagan Deep Kaur ( Centre Ii),Mehal Jain,Tanushree Rastogi,Syed SA Kazmi, Nauras Suhrawardy,Manan Popli,Pragya Wazir,Rachit Soota,Amrita Sinha, Neeraj Yadav 
• Akshay Sinha,Dr Anshu,Doerte Kasueske,S Fazal Daoud Firdausi,Dr Ganputh Rajendra Prasad,Ritu Malhotra,Seema Manoj,Suparna Saraswati Puri and Zubair Ahmed Khan.
• Major assistance was provided by KR Avinash and Hitesh Bhatt .
• Monica Suri was instrumental in getting a large number of speakers whose comments find place in the work.

 A poster of the event

The Cover Page of the book to be release

Book edited by Director, ALS-N, "A Review of Laws Relating to Tourism in India" releasing on 5th November

Our respected Director Sir, Major General Nilendra Kumar, has edited a book titled "A Review of Laws Relating to Tourism in India", which contains various articles related to the subject.

This book is the first and only one of its kind, and contains articles on current aspects relevant to growth of tourism. The focus of this book is on medical, adventure and religious tourism. It is a compendium of all statutory laws concerning travel & tourism, and has been published by Thomson & Reuters.

The book is being released at 1100 hours on Wednesday, the 5th of November, 2014, at I-2 Moot Court Hall, Amity University, sector-125, Noida. Everybody who wishes to attend the event is welcome to do so.

Justice Leila Seth launches a book at ALS-N

With Amity International Moot, 2014, turning out to be a grand success, we assumed that we would have quite time before the Diwali break started, but it seems that couldn't happen, because, after all, Amity has to keep up the “happening” tag.

On 17th October, 2014, we witnessed the presence of JUSTICE LEILA SETH, a remarkable woman who stood out by becoming the first woman judge at the Delhi High Court, and also the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court (Kashmir).

After the grand success of her autobiography, ON BALANCE, she takes us on a ride towards a journey full of legal understanding and her experiences during her legal career through her new book, TALKING OF JUDGE. It was matter of great pleasure, that she choose Amity Law School Noida as the venue for launching her book.

The launch was covered by the NDTV. During the launch interview, Justice Leila Seth explained about the book and when asked a question, replied in a clear and concise way, always direct and to the point.

She mentioned, at the starting of the interview that, ‘only changing the law is not enough, we have to first change our mentality.’ When asked about her experiences throughout her career, she said that when she started her career, there were just two female lawyers in the entire High Court, a senior lawyer and herself.

On being asked, “You have witnessed a great social change, from just two female lawyers when you started, to now, where majority of lawyers and law aspirants are women. How do you feel about this change?" To that she replied, “I am very happy, but I want to point out that it’s not true when people say that woman now walk ahead of men. What is required is that they walk together as equals.”

During the interview she said that though being a woman judge, she never took many women related cases and rather focused on the main stream cases, to that a question was put up, “out of all the different streams of law you studies you have given judgement on, which was the most exciting?”

She answered, “I have taken up many taxation cases, even been a part of the Bench. That was fascinating, while if you talk about tricky, it would be constitutional, as it requires detailed study because of its vastness.”

Book released on "Law for Engineering and Management Studies"

We are glad to inform about the successful release of the book on "Law for Engineering and Management Studies" by Maj Gen. Nilendra Kumar and Ms. Neha Chaturvedi, published by Universal Law Publishing Company which is ranked among the top Five law publishers in South Asia.

Heartiest Congratulations to Director Sir for this prodigious accomplishment from the ALS family.

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About the Authors 

Hindi Book Release - Misc

Director Speech

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[5/22/2013]	Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court releases Hindi Law Book at Amity University
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[5/22/2013]	Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court releases Hindi Law Book at Amity University
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Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court releases a Hindi book on “Legal Language, Legal Vocabulary and Legal Writing” – an aid to legal writing, word formation, drafting and communication at Amity Law School

It was a memorable occasion when Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court released the book titled “Legal Language, Legal Vocabulary and Legal Writing” authored by Dr. Kavita Surbhi- Amity Law School, Noida during a ceremony organized at Amity Campus, Sector- 125, Noida in the presence of Dr. Ashok K Chauhan- Founder President, Amity Group, Dr. Rahul Dev- Eminent Journalist, Mr. Amitabh Srivastav- LexisNexis Publications and Maj. Gen. Nilendra Kumar- Dean, Amity Law Schools. Bar Council has, recently, introduced compulsory Hindi legal language paper in 5 year law colleges and universities, as a result of which now there is a paper as well as practical training imparted to budding lawyers in Hindi. The book is written in an easy and lucid language and will cater to the syllabus of Hindi Language paper of various Law colleges and Universities of the country. The book will facilitate the use of correct and appropriate words and expression at appropriate occasion .It will be sent to the world renowned Universities Harvard, Yale and Singapore Universities  Releasing the book, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court said that in India, there are many Hindi speaking States including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar and in addition to these, there are States where regional languages are spoken. “In Supreme Court and High Courts, people come from diverse backgrounds and regions, which made Indian Government to come up with Legal Glossary in which various legal concepts are explained in both Hindi and English languages.” shared Hon’ble Justice. He remarked that “Legal Language, Legal Vocabulary and Legal writing”, which is an important milestone in strengthening the legal language and legal vocabulary in the legal profession ,will benefit the students practitioners, law teachers, judges, government officials, policy makers, general public and all those who are interested in the legal field and hope that more books in Hindi and regional languages will be written in near future. Addressing the gathering, Dr. Ashok K Chauhan- Founder President, Amity Group remarked that at Amity, every possible effort is made to ensure the development of the students. The faculty members at Amity work towards making the students successful professionals as well as responsible citizens of the nation. He highlighted that the book authored by Dr. Kavita is a noble effort in the same direction, endeavoring to help its readers, men in public administration and legal profession comprehend legal language, legal vocabulary and legal writing in a comprehensive manner. Sharing her views and introducing the book, author Dr. Kavita Surbhi shared that Legal Language, Legal Vocabulary and Legal Writing are areas in which not much has been written. In the field of law, numerous legal terms and phrases have found their way in various enactments and legislations, which need special attention. She stressed that the book outlines how to organize ideas, create and refine prose and nurture editing skills. She thanked Amity, Publisher of the book and Maj. Gen. Nilendra Kumar for encouraging her to write in Hindi and take such a bold step. While taking about the problems faced in editing the book, Mr. Amitabh Srivastav- LexisNexis Publications outlined how the dearth of specialized Hindi Editors in UP Hindi Belt led him to a frantic search of Editors in the nearby cities and finally, the Book was edited by an Editor located in Bangalore.

From L-R Dr. Rahul Dev- Eminent Journalist, Dr. Ashok K Chauhan- Founder President, Amity Group, Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court

Dr. Kavita Surbhi- author of the book talking about Legal Hindi

Dr. Rahul Dev- Eminent Journalist addressing the gathering

Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court addressing the gathering

Dr. Ashok K Chauhan- Founder President, Amity Group addressing the gathering

Book Released by the invited Guests

Dr. Ashok K Chauhan- Founder President, Amity Group presenting memento to Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra, Judge, Delhi High Court

INTERVIEW with Maj-Gen Nilendra Kumar on launch of his book, ‘Clinical Legal Education’

INTERVIEW with Maj-Gen Nilendra Kumar, Director of Amity Law School, Noida, Amity University, on the occasion of the launch of his book, ‘Clinical Legal Education’ in Amity University on 4th APRIL 2013

Sir, we want to congratulate you first on this achievement before we proceed with the interview.

1)  How many books have you written so far?

Frankly, I have not kept track. Perhaps it is the.... twelfth one...

2)  Why this topic of clinical legal education?

Law is to be studied for its application, be it family law, property law, criminal, taxation or any other branch of law.Hence the importance for a law student to know and master its application. This is the purpose of clinical legal education.

3)  Who is this book written for?

The target readership of the book is the student in various law colleges and universities in India and also their faculty, who, in most cases, do not have background of law application and practice.

4)  Which areas does the book cover?

The book’s contents relate to the syllabus framed by the Bar Council of India. For example, trial advocacy (mock trials) followed by appellate advocacy (moot trials), legal aid clinics, client counselling, community lawyering and legal writing, etc.

5)  What do you think are the challenges faced by the Indian Legal System today with regards to legal education?

The most critical challenge before Indian legal education and for that matter in the subcontinent is the absence of faculty who is equipped with the requisite experience to introduce their students to clinical legal education.

6) Do you mean there is a gap between legal education and the legal world?

Yes, I agree in the sense that a law student when he/she comes to the actual world, be it in Court, or an office, or law firm, he has a sense of bewilderment. He does not know what he has to do, because his education focuses on the theoretical aspect mostly.

7)  So, your book represents basically a bridge between the academic and real legal world?

 In a way, yes. This book is just a small step towards sensitising the academic environment about clinical legal education.

8)  At what level would you recommend this book to be prescribed in law schools and colleges?

I would recommend each student to procure a copy of this book in the first semester itself, and retain it throughout their stay for legal education.

9)  Do you believe the book can also be relevant for foreign lawyers and academicians?

Yes, this book may be useful for them to get an exposure about the functioning of the courts, tribunals, authorities and also about the approach of legal studies in India as regards its pedagogy.

10) On a personal note, how do you feel after writing this book, and how much time did it take you to write it?

It took me more than two years to write this book. Its publication has given me huge satisfaction and a sense of achievement in the sense of having contributed my small part to make legal education emerge more relevant.

11) Will you be coming with a sequel to this book or another one sometime soon?

As I mentioned, this is a first step. The comments and suggestions from my faculty colleagues and also the students on one hand and the law practitioners on the other would be needed to make its contents meet the expectations of various quarters.

12)Do you have a word of advice or suggestions for the law students re clinical legal education?

Get hold of a copy of the book at the earliest and make use of it to the maximum. And also, approach me without hesitation if you have any suggestions as to making the book more purposeful.

13)Finally, to whom would you like to dedicate this book?

I wish to dedicate this book to my students of 2008-13 batch of Amity Law School, Noida!

Interview conducted by:

1)   Ms Mokshda Bhushan- Assistant Professor, Amity Law School, Noida

( Mokshda Bhushan has read law from London School of Economics,UK and is a qualified barrister from Mauritius. She teaches criminology, legal communication skills and cyber laws in ALS,Noida.

2)  Ms Palka Rishi- Assistant Professor, Amity Law School, Noida

( Palka Rishi has read law from IP University, Delhi. She teaches constitutional law in ALS,Noida.)

Book Release - Newspaper Clippings

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[4/5/2013]	Shri Ram Jethmalani, MP & Senior Advocate releases book titled "Clinical Legal Education" at Amity
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[4/5/2013]	Shri Ram Jethmalani, MP & Senior Advocate releases book titled "Clinical Legal Education" at Amity
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