Jindal Global Law School

Presents

Distinguished Public Lecture

The Economic History of Organizational Entities in Ancient India

Professor Vikramaditya Khanna University of Michigan Law School October 18, 2011 12:30-1:45 pm Global Auditorium
12:30-12:35 Introduction: Prof. C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University and Dean, Jindal Global Law School 12:40-1:40 Distinguished Public Lecture: Prof. Vikramaditya Khanna, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School 1:40-1:45 Closing Remarks: Prof. Vik Kanwar, Assistant Professor, JGLS, and Assistant Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (CPLJ)

Speakers Bio
Vikramaditya Khanna is a professor of law and director of the Directors' College for Global Business & Law at Michigan Law School. He has been a Visiting Professor at Jindal Global Law School in 2010-2011. Prof. Khanna earned his SJD at Harvard Law School, where he has been a visiting faculty member. He served as a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School, and as a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. He was a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship in 20022003. His interest areas include corporate and securities law, corporate crime, law in India, corporate governance in emerging markets, and law and economics. He is the founding and current editor of both the India Law Abstracts and the White Collar Crime Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and his papers have been published in the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Supreme Court Economic Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and the Georgetown Law Journal. News publications in the United States, India, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have quoted him. He has given talks at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and Yale universities; the University of California, Berkeley; and the Wharton School, as well as to the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Law and Economics Association. He has presented in the United States, India, China, Turkey, Brazil, and Greece. Professor Khanna reads Sanskrit and several other Indian languages. His research on ancient precursors of corporations in India breaks new ground in a neglected area of study, and will be the basis of a forthcoming book.