The Foundation ceremony of National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) concluded on a high note on Sunday.
The highlight of the three day celebration was the lecture on Rule of Law by distinguished guest and former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Justice Mohan Pieris.
During the programme a seminar on the theme Sports and Intellectual Property, was organized which was attended by Director of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development Institute, PK Gupta along with the Director of Indian Institute of Management at Ranchi, Shailendra Singh in presence of Vice Chancellor NUSRL, Kesav Rao Varakula. The seminar discussed various issues relating to the field of Intellectual Property Rights wherein Gupta encouraged the students to become entrepreneurs and made them aware about the process involved in instituting a new venture. Director IIM, Singh elaborated on the issue and discussed the various opportunities available to students in the field of business management in terms of Intellectual Property.
On the second day of the NUSRL foundation day celebration ceremony, a lecture in the memory of Justice SB Sinha delivered. Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India, R Venkatramani, spoke on Supreme Court as a social workshop and appellate advocacy. In the lecture various issues were discussed and attention was drawn to the role played by the courts in providing a common platform for serious deliberations on every day issues and in doing so some landmark judgments like Balsara, Qureshi and Keshwananda Bharti were sited.
Attention was also drawn to issues like how to balance conflicting claims and the close interaction between rights and duties.
Several examples were given including that of the ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’, and if the question pertaining to the greater good of greater number would have been answered differently today.