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Dr. Manwendra K Tiwari

Associate Professor (Law) & Dean of the Faculties

Courses and Research Interest: Jurisprudence, Comparative Constitutional Law
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Bio

Dharmashastra National Law University. He is also holding the additional charge of Controller of Examinations. Dr. Manwendra K Tiwari has been teaching in the National Law Universities since 2008, immediately after completing his LL.M. He has worked at the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur for two years and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow for nine and half years as an Assistant Professor in Law before joining the Dharmashastra National Law University as an Associate Professor in Law in October, 2019. He completed his LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi and LL.M. from the Indian Law Institute (ILI), New Delhi. He was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in law by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow for his dissertation titled “Adjudication and Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights under the Indian Constitution: A Critical Study.” Dr. Manwendra has several published research articles and chapters in the reputed international and national journals and edited books.

Qualifications

  • 2006 - LL.B., B.H.U., Varanasi
  • 2008 - LL.M., I.L.I., New Delhi
  • 2018 - Ph.D. in Law, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow

Experiences

  • Present: Associate Professor, Dharmashastra National Law University,
  • 2013-2019: Assistant Professor, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow,
  • 2012-2013: Assistant Professor, Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur
  • 2010-2011: Assistant Professor, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
  • 2008-2010: Teaching Associate, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Member, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2015

Publications

  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari and Swati Singh Parmar, Of Semiotics, the Marginalised and Laws During the Lockdown in India, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, (2022), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-021-09878-y
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Book Review: Justice frustrated: the systemic impact of delays in Indian courts, 5, Indian Law Review, 1 (2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2021.1937864
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Governmental Interference and decline of autonomy of Comptroller and Auditor General of India in Institutional decline in the Neo-Liberal Regime, 98, (Yogesh Pratap Singh, Thomson Reuters, 2022)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, The Issue of Consequential Seniority Pursuant to Reservation in Promotion in Government Services: Comment on B. K. Pavitra v. Union of India, 12, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University Journal (RMLNLUJ), 211, (2020)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Reconciling Nationalism with Constituional Morality: Debating the Question of being Selective in hanging the death row terrorists in Nationalism and Patroitism in 21st century, 195, (NLU Delhi, 2019)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Book Review: The international criminal court: A commentary on the Rome Statute, 57 (1), Indian Journal of International Law, 217, (2017), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40901-018-0071-1
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Critique of the Jurisprudential Case Against the Constitutional Socio-economic Rights, 9, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University Journal (RMLNLUJ), 101, (2017)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Shades of Life Imprisonment and the Issue of Primacy Between Union and State in Releasing Life Convicts in India, 7, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University Journal (RMLNLUJ), 65, (2015)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights under the Indian Constitution: Quest for a Legitimate, Principled and Efficient Model, 6, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University Journal (RMLNLUJ), 39, (2014)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Book review: Law Profession – My Experiences & Expectations, 3-5, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University Journal (RMLNLUJ), 182, (2013)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Democratic Legitimacy of Constitutional Socio-economic Rights Adjudication in India, 56, Pragyaan: Journal of Law, 56, (2017)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Constitutional Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication in South Africa: Lesson for India for a Principled Approach,XL, Cochin University Law University, 174, (2016)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Conceptualising the Judicial Role in Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication in India: Moving Beyond the Argument of Legitimacy, 2, HNLU Journal of Law & Social Sciences, 45, (2015)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, Inordinate Delay as a Ground for Commutation of Punishment of Convicts on Death Row in India: A Critical Inquiry, 4, RMLNLU Law Review, 1, (2014)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, TRIPS and the Issue of Biotechnological Patents, (Scholars’ Press, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2013)
  • Manwendra Kumar Tiwari, The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006- A Critical Appraisal, 1, Shodh Prerak, 53, (2011)

Paper Presentations

  • Contempt for Procedure as an Outcome of Judicial Delays and Its Consequences, National Seminar on Judicial Delays: Maladies and Remedies, organised by the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, at New Delhi on 11 January 2020;
  • Meaning of Morality under Art. 19 (2): Social or Constitutional, National Seminar on “Constitutionalism and Constitutional Morality: Contemporary Issues and Challenges”, organised by School of Legal Studies, BBAU, at Lucknow, on 26 March 2019;
  • Model Bilateral Investment Treaty – India’s Endeavour in Protecting its Autonomy in the backdrop of Treaties, National Seminar on Law and Justice in Globalized World: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, organised by the School of Legal Studies, BBAU, at Lucknow on 7 March 2019
  • Gendering Caste: A Non-Gandhian, Unequal, Unjust, Violent India: Is this What Gandhi Envisaged. National Seminar on Contextualizing Mahatma Gandhi’s Philosophy in the 21 st Century: Democracy, Justice, Equality and Non-Violence, Organised by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, at Lucknow, on 29 March 2019
  • 256th Report of the Law Commission of India on Eliminating Discrimination against Persons affected by Leprosy: The Road Ahead, National Seminar on Problem, Protection and Perspective of Persons with Disability: Law & Policy, organized by the School of Legal Studies, BBAU, at Lucknow, on 30 March 2017.
  • Enforcement of Positive Right to Life and Cases of Communal Violence, National Seminar on Constitutional Governance and Protection of Minorities, organized by Faculty of Law, University of Lucknow, at Lucknow, on 2 April 2017.

Research and Consultancy

  • U. P. Draft Rent Control Bill, Sponsored by Uttar Pradesh Awas Evam Vikas Parishad, Government of Uttar Pradesh (2017).