Jean Monnet Chair
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Jean Monnet Chair
Advancing Knowledge and Understanding of the European Union
JGU has been honored with the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair by the European Union (E.U.) for teaching and research. The awarded project titled 'Multi-dimensional Approaches to the Understanding of the E.U. Data Protection Framework' demonstrates our commitment to advancing knowledge and understanding of the European Union and its data protection framework.
Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta
Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta is a Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, Dean of Research & Controller of Examinations at OPJGU. He is Co-Director of JIRICO and Senior Fellow at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS). Prof. Gupta was earlier appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. He has taught at the Brunel Law School of Brunel University during this Ph.D. and has been involved in a funded project on informational privacy. Prof. Gupta has participated in a multi-jurisdictional project on Digital Era Competition: A BRICS View.
Prof. Gupta holds a Ph.D. from Brunel University, London, and two LL.M. degrees (taught and research) from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and the University of East Anglia, UK. His Ph.D. looked at the transnational influence of the US Supreme Court’s judgement in the Feist case in the framing of the Database Directive in the European Union. He specialises in Technology Law and aspects of Intellectual Property Law. Over the years, he has offered courses such as Information Technology Law, Music and Copyright, and EU law and Approaches to New Technology.
Prof. Gupta has contributed in reputed journals such as the European Intellectual Property Review (Sweet and Maxwell), Journal of World Intellectual Property (Wiley), International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford University Press),Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press), Journal of Data Protection and Privacy (Henry Stewart Publications), Economic and Political Weekly and European Journal for Law and Technology (Queen’s University Belfast). He has worked extensively with a globally reputed publisher, Springer, and has several books to his credit. He has been also invited as a Jean Monnet Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Jean Monnet Centre for Intellectual Property & Management, Bournemouth University, UK.
Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta
Events
2021 - Event 2021 - Jean Monnet Invite
Date: 27th September
2022 Event 2022- Jean Monnet Roundtable
Date: 24th September
2023 Mapping Data Protection Expectations Workshop
Date: To Be Announced |
Other Activities
- Jean Monnet Lecture Series: JGLS Lecture Series
Date: 27th-29th April 2022 - Workshop on "Understanding Regulatory Mechanisms for Protecting Reasonable Expectations of Privacy: Mapping Consent and Fairness in Australian and Indian Data Protection Law" in collaboration with Melbourne Law School (Australia)
Date: 29th July
Team
Avirup Bose
Professor, JGLS
Key Staff Member
Sweta Dipak Lakhani
Associate Professor, JGLS
Research Fellow
Krishna Deo Singh
Associate Professor, JGLS
Key Staff Member
Aafreen Mitchelle Collaco
Assistant Lecturer & PhD Scholar, JGLS
PhD Scholar
Dr. Chitresh Kumar
Associate Professor, JGBS
Key Staff Member
Paarth Naithani
Assistant Lecturer & PhD Scholar, JGLS
Research Fellow
Publications
- Indranath Gupta, Three Decades of Consent, Information Privacy and Data Protection – A Machine- generated Overview (Volume I & II) (Springer, 2023) (forthcoming)
- Indranath Gupta, Future of European Studies in Asia (with Maria- Stoicheva and S.G. Sreejith(eds.) (Springer 2023) (forthcoming)
- Indranath Gupta, Separating Personal Data Protection from Non-Personal Data Governance – Economic and Political Weekly (forthcoming), 2023 (with Paarth Naithani))
- Paarth Naithani, Curtailing the Cookie Monster through Data Protection by Default, Tilburg Law Review, Volume 27 Issue 1, p.22–36. (Open access)
- Paarth Naithani, The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 and the Right to Privacy, Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, 57(16), pp. 4–5.
- Paarth Naithani, Virtual Private Networks and the Right to Privacy, Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, 57(23), pp. 5–6.
- Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan, From “What” and “Why” to “How”: An Imperative Driven Approach to Mechanics of AI Regulation, 2022, Global Jurist. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/gj-2022-0053/html
- Paarth Naithani, Regulating the ‘Fingerprinting Monster’ Through EU Data Protection Law, European Data Protection Law Review, 2021, 7(4), pp. 597–608.
- Paarth Naithani, Pegasus and the Law, Economic and Political Weekly, 2021, 56(49), pp. 4–5.
- Indranath Gupta, Right to be forgotten in case of search engines: Emerging trends in India as compared to the EU, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 5, Issue 3, 1-13, Dec 2022 (with Paarth Naithani)
- Indranath Gupta, An Assessment of the JPC Report on PDP Bill, 2019, Economic and Political Weekly (engage), Volume 57, Issue No. 31, 30 July 2022. (with Paarth Naithani)
- Indranath Gupta, Transparent communication under Article 12 of GDPR: Advocating a Standardised Approach for Universal Understandability, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, Volume 5, No. 2, 2022 (with Paarth Naithani)
- Chitresh Kumar, Anirban Ganguly & Amanish Lohan (2021): Understanding the interrelationship of barriers towards business model re-engineering under the evolving privacy laws: an interpretive Structure Modelling approach, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, DOI: 10.1080/13600869.2021.1999302 (14th November, 2021).
- Aafreen Mitchelle Collaco (2021) Contact tracing applications and informational privacy amidst the pandemic in India, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, DOI: 10.1080/13600869.2021.1999277 (9th November, 2021).
- Paarth Naithani, Application of India’s future data protection legislation to data collected in the past, Economic and Political Weekly (Forthcoming) (Open Access)
- Indranath Gupta, What is left of consent when it is deemed consent: A data protection experiment in India, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 6, Issue 1 (forthcoming) (with Paarth Naithani)
- Indranath Gupta, Introduction to Data Protection Law – Cases and Materials from the EU (with Sherin Sarah Philips and Paarth Naithani) (Forthcoming, Springer 2024)
Awarded & Merited
Affiliations
Prof. Indranath Gupta – Advisor Board, Scientific Committee member, European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli, Italy
Prof. Indranath Gupta's Activities
- Indranath Gupta talked on the effects of the withdrawal of the PDP Bill, 2019, and the changes that can be made by the government in the new one. (August 22, 2022)
- Indranath Gupta quoted - Data Protection Bill: Does Centre’s Exemption From Accountabilities Affect Right To Privacy? (July 19, 2023)
- Invited as a keynote speaker in the workshop series on Legal design for transparency in consumer contracts operating in online and offline environments A new chance for the interaction between Academics and Stakeholders (Jean Monnet Chair PROTECH) protech 2 (9) (003).pdf
- Invited as a panelist for the session "Emerging Market for Privacy-tech in India - Outlook & Way Forward" at the Report Launch and Panel Discussion on Privacy Enabling Technologies | The Dialogue and Invest India | 20 July, 2023 Agenda_Privacy Tech Paper Launch (003).pdf
- Conducted a lecture on "Perspectives on the Data Protection Law" in 28 April, the School of Law RV University, Bengaluru. Prof. Gupta's lecture revolved around the Indian Data Protection Bill of 2022 and its various facets with a special focus on the use of plain, simple and clear language in defining and understanding the contours of data protection, deemed consent etc. He also spoke about the alignment of the Indian Data Protection Bill with the aims and aspiration of the EU General Data Protection Regulations (EUGDPR). Watch the lecture
- Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan attended privacy Tsaaro Privacy Meet-up; Hosted by Exterro on 28th July in Gurugram.
- Invited as a guest lecturer (Protection of personal data in India) at AMU (Adam Mickiewicz University)