Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 5: Department of Law, University of Kashmir, in collaboration with Department of Environmental Sciences and Department of Earth Sciences and Geophysics, KU, kicked off a fifteen- day lecture series on `International Environmental Law’.
Prof Balraj K Siddhu -Executive Director, Centre for Advanced Studies on Court and Tribunals (CASCT), a key role player in arbitration of Kishen Ganga Water Sharing dispute, will be delivering lectures to students and Scholars, on wide variety of issues like Land Filling management, Water Disputes, International environmental law, Anti-dumping law, Climate change, e-waste management, Man-wild conflict, Solid waste management, Access to environmental information, Air pollution legislation, IPR (traditional knowledge) and International Arbitration mechanism on Environmental issues.
Highlighting the importance of nexus between field of environmental science and the Legal regime on environment, Prof M Ayub, (Dean & Head) Faculty of Law, said that by organizing such programs, all concerned stakeholders will be benefited and it will impress upon rendering environmental justice in more pragmatic ways by pondering upon enforcement of legislations that are safeguarding environment in all respects.
Prof Bashir A Ganai, Head, Department of Environmental Science, said that such programme will promote intellectual discourse on how to devise a nexus between Law and environment and what role students and scholars can play in order to raise intelligentsia that will advance voices for protection and safeguarding of environment -a common heritage of mankind.
The inaugural function ended up with a good interaction between resource persons and scholars. The programme has been facilitated by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Khurshid A Andrabi with assistance of Dean Research, Prof Shiekh Javeed Ahmad and Coordinator, DST programme Prof M A Khuroo.
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