Centre for Internet & Society

On Friday, September 27, 2013, Abhayraj Naik will give a talk on public law and jurisprudential issues related to privacy. CIS will host the talk at its office in Bangalore from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Abhayraj Naik

Abhayraj Naik is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and the Yale Law School. He previously taught public law at the Jindal Global Law School of the OP Jindal Global University where he also co-directed the Centre for Public Law & Jurisprudence from September 2009 to July 2012.

Abhay is actively associated with the Environment Support Group, Bangalore (http://www.esgindia.org), and has also been associated with the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, USA; Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, USA; Culture Move, Bangalore and other national and international advocacy, activism and research groups for several years now.

Abhay's research interests include legal theory, philosophy, criminal justice reform, urban governance, ecology, and technology policy. His current research projects include interdisciplinary studies of urban street vending, information privacy, fiduciary duties, forgiveness, biopiracy, and criminal justice reform.

He enjoys cycling, travel, poetry, music, and radical educational and ecological activism.

Abhay currently teaches at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore.

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