SURANA & SURANA INTERNATIONAL ESSAY COMPETITION, 2018 on

“International Trade, Human Rights and Sustainable Development:

An Entangledtrinity necessary for a Nation’s Development”

UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LEGAL STUDIES, PANJAB UNIVERSITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SURNA & SURANA INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEYS, CHENNAI,

ORGANIZES INTERNATIONAL ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION ON

CORPORATE LAWS, 2018

CTDR, UILS, Panjab University

Panjab University is one of the oldest Universities in India, the Panjab University (PU) initiated at Lahore in 1882, has a long tradition of pursuing excellence in teaching and research in science and technology, humanities, social sciences, performing arts and sports. The University supports excellence and innovation in academic programmes, promotes excellence in research, scholarship and teaching. The University is committed to attract and support the best students and faculty, who excel at teaching and research. In independent India, Panjab University with its Campus at Chandigarh and nearly two hundred colleges in Punjab state and Chandigarh U.T., has served various societal needs with distinction.

University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) was established as constituent department of Panjab University, in the academic session 2004-05. During a short span of time, it has emerged as one of the premier legal Institute with a unique blend of tradition and modernity. Its mission is to equip the students with the skills to comprehend and diagnose the intricacies of various legal and other inter-disciplinary issues and devise solutions to these problems through analysis and reasoning.

The Centre for Trade Laws and Dispute Resolution (CTDR) is created with the collective ingenuity of UILS (University Institute of Legal Studies) and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (University of Pepperdine) to promote interdisciplinary research in the field of trade law and dispute resolution. The purpose of the CTDR (Centre for Trade Laws and Dispute Resolution) covers the following aspects:

  • To ensure thorough interdisciplinary research comprising diverse fields like business laws, trade laws, economic laws, commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration to bring out some unconventional and operative techniques that can bring some substantive changes in the field of dispute resolution.
  • To conduct seminars and conferences in order to assimilate the distinguished veterans from all over the world to embrace us with vast insights on this topic and how can it can be implemented in Indian scenario.

The Centre for Trade Laws and Dispute Resolution, UILS, PU, Chandigarh, in collaboration with SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai proudly announces an international essay competition on corporate law, 2018.

SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai

SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai is highly regarded by clients for its expertise, practical solutions, responsiveness, commercial sense and multi-disciplinary inputs. Founded in 1971, by Shri P.S. Surana and Smt. LeelavtiSurana, the firm is known for facilitating landmark (foreign and domestic) investments in the automobile, engineering, infrastructure and information technology sectors in South India and more particularly in Tamil Nadu. It’s Clienteleincludes Fortune 100 MNCs, leading Indian corporations, trusts, individuals and start-up enterprises. The firm's scope of practice includes: contract (strategies, negotiations and drafting); corporate (banking and finance, commercial, cross border, mergers and acquisition, securities, turnaround strategies, corporate compliance); dispute prevention and resolution (arbitration, litigation and mediation); human resources and industrial relation (compliance, conflict resolution and wage settlement and negotiations); infrastructure and real estate (due diligence, negotiations, strategy and structuring); tax (direct and indirect tax); technology (information technology, bio-technology and intellectual properties).

Nurturing academic excellence has been an integral part at SuranaSurana International Attorneys. For the past two decades our foray into organizing moot court competitions in association with top law schools and universities has yielded satisfying experience in helping improve research, writing and argument skills of the participating students, besides sensitizing students in unsettled areas of law for development of jurisprudence. Buoyed by the encouraging results, we expanded our activities with Essay competitions in major areas of law & social sciences. Enthused by the overwhelming response, we have now embarked upon a Judgment writing competition in all our moots. The idea is to have a clinical approach to the issues at hand with an analytical mind and acquire the clarity to sum up the issues with a sense of just balance. In short a comprehensive platform is created for the students to develop into a full-fledged legal professional.

COLLABORATION

University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh has partnered with SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai to hold a"SuranaSurana-UILS International Essay Competition on Corporate Law, 2018". It is a partnership between corporate and academic institution with an aim to imbibe the research inclination among the students fraternity. The objective of the competition is to undertake advanced study and research in the emerging areas of international trade, sustainable development and human rights and to bring about the publications which can positively contribute towards providing clarity in the grey areas.

RULES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE ESSAY COMPETITION

  1. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
  • The Competition is open to the students who are pursuing five year integrated Law course/LL.B./LL.M./M.Phil./ Ph.D.. or any other Undergraduate or Master courses (other than Law) in any university across the World.
  • Students of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India, the Institute of Cost Accountant of India&The Institute of Company Secretaries of India are also eligible to participate. However, those who have completed either theirChartered Accountant/ Cost Accountant/ Company Secretary degrees/courses are not eligible.
  • The participants must also send a certificate from the Head of the Institution certifying that the candidate is a bonafide student of the University/ College/Institute.
  • If any Student of the UILS is positioned amongst the top three, he/she will not be eligible for the top three prizes but will be felicitated in recognition of his/her performance with a special prize by the SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai at the Prize Distribution function.
  1. THEME FOR THEESSAY

International Trade, Human Rightsand Sustainable Development: An entangled trinity necessary for a Nation’s Development

SUB THEMES

  • International Trade, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Reinventing ‘Development’.
  • Role of WTO and UNCITRAL in achieving the UN’s SDGs in relation to international and domestic trade.
  • Trade and Sustainability, relevance of Paris Climate Convention.
  • Labor implications of trade liberalization and globalization in achieving a nation’s progress.
  • Economic Interdependence vs. Economic Nationalism in the era of free international trade.
  • Interlinking of rivers project, a viable alternative for the Indian Trade Industry.
  • Dumping and its impact on competition through the lens of sustainable trade environment?
  • Agriculture and Global Food Security, ramifications in International Trade

The theme for the essay is kept broad in nature. The participants are allowed to take anyparticular sub-theme or can mold it keeping it intact with the central theme of the essay.

  1. GUIDELINES FORSUBMISSION
  • The essay must be written in English only.
  • Only one essay per participant may be submitted. Multiple or incomplete submissions lead to disqualification.
  • Co-authorship to a maximum of two authors is permitted. In case of co-authorship, separate Registration Form must be filled for each author.
  • The students who have made a solo entry and as a co-author also will be treated as multiple entries and it will lead to rejection of the second submission (The entry which is received first will be entertained)
  • Only original essays will be considered for the competition. No part of it should have been published earlier nor should it be under consideration for publication in a contest elsewhere. Moreover, any form of plagiarism will result in disqualification of essay. Neither UILS nor SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai will be responsible for the act of plagiarism.Any Identification Mark in any part of the essay is liable to cancellation.
  • Registration form is to be sent along with the essay. The registration form must be duly signed and sealed by the Head of College/Institute/University. (Available in download form on website). In case of unavailability of the head of the institution any senior faculty may sign the same. Or you may send the scanned copy of your Identity Card of the current academic session.

Length of the essay

  • The submission shall consist of an abstract, main text and bibliography.
  • An abstract should not be more than 200 words inclusive of title and keywords.
  • The essay should not be more than 2500-3000 words (excluding Footnotes and abstract).
  • Footnotes must conform to theStandard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) format and must include a description of each authority adequate enough to allow a reasonable reader to identify and locate the authority in a publication of generalcirculation.

Format requirement

Font Style / Times New Roman
Font Size / 12 (Main Text); 10 (Footnotes)
Line Spacing / 1.5 (Main Text); 1(Footnotes)
Margin / 1” on all sides
Page Number / page “a of y” on right side of the page
File Name / Name of Author + Title of Paper
File Format / .doc/.docx/ pdf

Electronic Submission

The participants should Email their papers to with the following the attachments:

  • Essay in MS Word/ PDF format with subject “SuranaSurana- UILS InternationalEssay Writing Competition”
  • Name of Author(s)
  • Registration form
  • Cover page containing name of participant, Nationality, address, e-mail-id, contact number and name of college/ Institute/University with address and course/class.

4.PRIZES(SURANA & SURANA AWARDS)

First Prize - INR 25,000/-

Second Prize - INR 15,000/-

Third Prize - INR 10,000/-

15 Consolation Prizes – INR 1,000/-

  • The name of the winner will be displayed on the website and also on the notice board of website. Separate intimation will also be sent to each of the winner through email.
  • The winners will be given the prizes on the Prize distribution function, exact date and location of which to be announced later. Certificate of Participation will be awarded to all the participants.
  1. IMPORTANTDATES

Last date for receiving the submission through E-mail. / 25th April, 2018
Declaration of results (tentative) / 15th July, 2018
  1. JURY AND REVIEW CRITERIA
  • Entries will be reviewed by a distinguished panel of impartial judges and academicians.
  • Entries will be judged on the basis of originality, style and organization, quality of analysisand quality of research.
  • Essays will be judged anonymously.
  1. ADVISORYCOMMITTEE

PROFESSOR (Dr.)ARUN KUMAR GROVER

Vice-Chancellor, Patron

Panjab University, Chandigarh(India)

Ms. ANUCHATRATH

Dean, Faculty of Law

Faculty of Law, Panjab University, Chandigarh(India)

PROFESSOR (Dr.) SANGITABHALLA

Professor of Law

University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India)

PROFESSOR (Dr.) RATTAN SINGH

Director

University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India)

Dr. S. RAVICHANDRAN

Head Academic Initiatives

Surana and Surana International Attorneys, Chennai (India)

  1. PUBLICATION
  • In addition to the top three winners, the fifteen selected essays (consolation prize winners) will be published in the form of an edited book with an ISBN Number.
  1. MISCELLANEOUS
  • The administration of the contest for the purpose of determining the eligibility of a participant or essay, standard of essay, evaluation of essays and awarding of the prizes is within the sole and absolute discretion of Centre for Trade Laws and Dispute Resolution (CTDR), UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
  • The participants are responsible for the originality of the work and agree to indemnify the University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University and SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai from and against any claims, suits and damages based on any claim of copyright infringement or plagiarism or unauthorized use. If at any point in time it comes to light that an infringement or plagiarism has taken place, the certificates issued will be revoked, the prize will be called back and the said occurrence will be mentioned on the web and through print/electronic/ social media.
  • Neither SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennainor Centre for Trade Laws and Dispute Resolution (CTDR), UILSassumes any responsibility for delayed or incomplete entries or technical malfunction of server, traffic congestion or a combination thereof.
  • The rights of submitted essays including rejected and disqualified submissions will vest with SuranaSurana International Attorneys, Chennai and University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
  1. FINAL JURY

PROFESSOR (Dr.)RAVIKESHMI SRIVASTAVA

Dean (Academics)

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

PROFESSOR (Dr.)MAMTA BISWAL

Professor of Law

Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

MS. ALKA BHATIA

Economic Advisor

United Nation Development Programme, Malawi and Namibia

PROFESSOR (Dr.)RASHMI AGGARWAL

Professorof Law

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

MR. SUKHSIMRANJIT SINGH

Managing Director

Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, California, USA.

Ms. Trisha Rajput

Assistant Professorof Law

School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

  1. CONTACTINFORMATION
  • Prof (Dr.) RajinderKaur (+919888020030) (Email: )

Coordinator, CTDR

  • Dr. Bharat (+919465228800) (Email: )

ConvenerDeputy-Coordinator, CTDR

  1. STUDENT COMMITTEE:-

•Mr. AkhilKamra(Convenor)

•Mr. SauravKhanna

•Mr. Navdeep Singh

•Mr. AdityaMehtani

•Mr. Aniruddh Bhatia

•Mr. NikhileshVerma: +919814015117

•Ms. AradhikaJasrotia: +917837623294

•Ms. Shraddha Sharma: +918054114830

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