Judicial Overreach or Oversight?

Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series
Justice Ruma Pal
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of India
Gittis Hall 213 & 214 University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Justice Ruma Pal is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India who served on the bench from January 2000 to June 2006. The Honorable Mrs. Pal received her B.C.L. degree at Oxford University and started her practice in 1968 in Civil, Revenue, Labour and Constitutional matters in the Kolkata High Court.  After a distinguished career as an advocate, she was appointed Judge in the Kolkata High Court in August 1990.  She was appointed to Supreme Court of India on January 28, 2000, the day of the Golden Jubilee of the court.  Justice Pal has delivered many critical judgments in famous cases, and has written on a number of human rights issues.  She is a member of the International Forum of Women Judges and serves on the Committee of Experts of the International Labor Organization.  Justice Pal also holds the Ford Foundation Chair for Human Rights at the National University for Juridical Sciences at Kolkata and is on the boards of several NGOs that work on human rights.

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.