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Prof. Uday Shankar is an Associate Professor at Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur. He has been teaching and researching in law for more than 20 years. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at the University of Macerata, Italy. He has served as a guest professor under the Magdalene Schoch Fellowship awarded by the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg in the year 2016 and recipient of the prestigious fellowship from the Max-Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg in the year 2008.

He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Global Pandemic Network, the Legal, Policy and Pandemics (the Journal of Global Pandemic Network) and Country Coordinator (India) of the Global Pandemic Network and an active member of the Global Pandemic Network Working Groups. He is a Member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (https://www.iacl-aidc.org/en/). He is a Life Member of the Indian Law Institute, Delhi. More than 60 of his academic writings are published in journals and books.

He has authored a book and edited four books. The recently edited book is ‘Human Rights during Covid-19: South Asian Perspective’ published by Springer Nature. He has presented papers and delivered invited talks at more than 80 conferences in India and abroad. He delivers lectures as a resource person in the FDPs/Conferences in the area of Constitutional Law/Energy Law/Research Methodology/Teaching Pedagogy. His two online courses namely Introduction to Law on Electricity and Centre-State Relations in India are offered under the scheme of the NPTEL, a project funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has organized GIAN Course on Energy Law and Policy and Short Term Courses on Labour Law and Make in India/Skill India. He has done research projects in the area of Energy Law, Transport Law/Access to Justice funded by the Government of India and international organizations. He sits on the editorial boards or advisory boards of journals published by the National Law Universities/Law Colleges in India.