Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt - New Approaches to CSR, Sustainability and Accountability, Volume II

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As founding president of International Group on Governance Fraud Ethics and CSR (IGonGFESR), I would like to dedicate this book to the distinguished academician, Prof. Dr. in Law Ranbir Singh. Prof of Eminent Singh was our keynote speaker in 10th IConGFESR and International Sustainable Cooperative and Social Enterprise Conference which were organised in April 2527, 2019 in Trakya University, Turkey. However, before this conference, we held two conferences with Vice Chancellor Prof Ranbir at National Law University under his honorary presidency. I would like to introduce distinquished academician and rector, Prof. Ranbir.

Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.

Professor (Dr.) Ranbir Singh is the former and founder Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi established by the Delhi Government in 2008. In just a short span of 12 years he has steered NLU, Delhi which has been ranked as the 2nd best law school of India in the NIRF2018 rankings. Its the acknowledgement of his administrative and leadership abilities that NLU, Delhi is now recognized not only in India but also at the international level. With over two decades of experience in heading the law school he carries the aura of a visionary who as an outstanding statesmen and academician shown immense commitment and contribution towards changing the legal education landscape of the country. Prior to his stint in NLU, Delhi, he was the founder Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, University of Law, established by the Andhra Pradesh Government and had been at its helm since its inception in 1998. Professor Singhs acumen took NALSAR to great heights as a well-known premier institution for legal education and research in the country. He has been a Vice-Chancellor for over 20 years now.

Professor Singh had a long association with Kurukshetra University, first as a student, a Ph.D. scholar and as faculty member in its Department of Law. In 1978, he moved to Maharshi Dayanand University at Rohtak as part of the founding Faculty and continued there till 1996 in various capacities as Professor, Head, Dean and Proctor. On invitation from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, he served as Professor of Law at NLSIU during 19961997. Professor Singhs contribution in redesigning legal education in the country has been significant being a member of the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India. His legal writings span the areas of Jurisprudence, Human Rights, Legal Education, Legal Aid, Personal Laws and Justice Education and has more than 50 research publications to his credit. He has edited two publications one on Human Rights Education, Law and Society and the other on Cyber Space and the LawIssues and Challenges. He has also authored along with Prof. A. Lakshminath two scholarly publications, one on Fiscal FederalismConstitutional Conspectus and the other on Constitutional Law. Under his guidance several scholars have been awarded Ph.D. Degrees and his rich teaching/research experience enabled him to visit and participate in several International Conferences and Seminars and present papers in several countries like Australia, Brazil, Bhutan, China, Taiwan, South Africa Cyprus, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Pakistan, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Russia, Germany, South Korea, UK and USA. He has visited best of law schools in UK and USA and interacted with leading legal academics and functionaries of higher judiciary in these countries.

He has association with several national and international organisations in advisory capacitiesmore important among them being Executive Committee of the National Legal Services Authority, Indian Law Institute, National Police Academy, National Committee in IPR (Confederation of Indian Industries), Indian Society of International Law, Committee of Experts on Law, National Commission for Women, National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, DNA Profiling Advisory Committee (D-PAC), SAARCLAW India Chapter, Commonwealth Legal Education Association. Under his Chairmanship a Committee with the assistance of ILO, Regional Office prepared a draft bill for the Abolition of the Child Labour and submitted to the State Government. He served as a member of the DNA Profiling Advisory Committee constituted by the Department of Bio-technology, Government of India to recommend a draft legislation for enactment by the Parliament. Related to this he also served as Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on Legal Issues and prepared the DNA Profiling Bill. He was also a member of the Shri Soli Sorabjee Committee appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs, to draft the New Police Act which was submitted to the Ministry. He is also interested in issues like Corporate Law and Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility.