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Corporate Law Studies

The Centre for Corporate Law Studies is an initiative of the Institute aimed at institutionalizing and channelizing research on corporate and business-related aspects that take place nationally as well as globally. The Centre looks to give a necessary impetus by inculcating an outlook amongst those future corporate professionals to question the various aspects of business and its interplay with society. The Centre’s focus of study involves the wide ranging contemporaneous corporate law issues: which includes as major thrust area financial markets and intermediaries; the legal framework of Corporate Laws like, Company Law, Taxation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Law, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, Contract Law etc. The Centre undertakes activities including discussions and expert talks that inculcate and facilitate the students to have a thorough understanding of the corporate structure, its market, its regulatory framework etc. The students look to undertake research, engage in debates and sensitize others about the same by organizing workshops, essay competitions to voice their views as well as take up blogging with equal fervor. In addition, the Centre publishes the Quarterly Corporate Law Bulletin and is actively involved in policy research. The Corporate Law Center also offers many opportunities, both inside the classroom and beyond, for students who are interested in business law.
  • To undertake and promote research on corporate laws through involvement in corporate law research projects
  • To provide assistance to Professor’s who are teaching Corporate and Business laws within the Institute of Law, Nirma University. To contribute to promote and develop the curriculum, teaching methods, and materials.
  • To host an annual conference on Corporate Law to promote and develop research undertaken by students in our Centre and other professionals outside the Centre.
  • To collaborate with other institutions both academic and non-academic who specialize in corporate law and develop links with their academic research in the field of corporate law.

The Centre has successfully hosted several webinars and expert lectures on topics pertaining to Infrastructure Law, Project Finance, Corporate Finance, and AI & Law. We have previously hosted webinars that pertain to other allied topics of corporate law like Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance.

We plan to conduct more of such webinars on more nuanced areas of law like Taxation Law, Insolvency & Restructuring, Real Estate, Technology Transfers, etc.

Newsletter and Blogs
The Centre plans to update necessary developments that takes place in the field of corporate law through a bi-monthly release of our Centre’s Newsletter and a regular update on several submissions in our blog. We are using informal and formal source of information dissemination like Instagram, and LinkedIn respectively to ensure that our updates on the important issues of corporate and business law are easily accessible to all.

Name Designation
Dr Amit Kashyap Faculty Head
Dr Vineet Chouhan Co-Head
Dr Ashish Porwal Co-Head
Pratik Amit Oke Chairperson
Shwetna Jain Co-chairperson
Vanshita Bhandari Secretary
Shriyansh Bansal Joint-Secretary
Shibi Sharma Head of External Relations (Corporate)
Divisha Gupta Head of External Relations (Alumni)
Maitri Jain Head of Public Relations and Media
Shreya Viswesvaran Managing Editor (The Corporate Law Blog)
Pakhi Jain Managing Editor (The Red Letter)
Lavanya Panda Managing Editor (CRLJ)
  • Newsletter: CCLS has a newsletter team that conducts research and updates the students, faculties, and other professionals about the recent updates that have taken place in the corporate world.
  • The newsletter is released bi-monthly.
  • Blog: CCLS runs a blog titled ‘The Corporate Law Blog. The blog is operated by our student blog team and we are accepting submissions from all stakeholders comprising of students from our institute as well as other institutes, professors, lawyers, and research scholars.
  • Our blog can be accessed https://corporatelawilnu.wordpress.com/
  • CCLS had collaborated with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India in February 2021 to host the ‘IBBI-ILNU Essay Writing Competition 2021’ on the theme of ‘Contemporary issues in Corporate Insolvency Laws. The competition was hosted at a national level and we had witnessed participation from several premier legal and CA/CS/MBA institutions in India.
    As a part of the said competition, we had also collaborated with two law firms that have a core insolvency practice team, AM Legals and Ace Inhibitors Insolvency respectively.
  • We had also collaborated with IBC Laws who agreed to be our Media Partner for the said competition.
    Previously, while conducting a research initiative on compiling all Supreme Court landmark judgements in the field of Insolvency and Bankruptcy law, we had collaborated with IBC Laws who agreed to publish our findings in their website.

Centre for Research in Corporate Law Studies
Institute of Law, Nirma University
Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway,
Post: Chandlodia, Via : Gota,
Ahmedabad – 382 481
Phone: Prof. Amit Kashyap – 7600377946
Email: centre.corporateresearch@nirmauni.ac.in

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