By TCN News,
Aligarh: Prof. Faizan Mustafa, current Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Orissa, has been appointed the Vice Chancellor of Nalsar Law University, Hyderabad. Prof. Mustafa is former Dean, Faculty of Law and former Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University.
The search committee headed by Justice A. K. Ganguly, former Judge, Supreme Court of India and former Chief Justice of Karnataka suggested three names including that of Prof. Faizan Mustafa after shortlisting 10 candidates.
Prof. Mustafa is the senior professor of AMU Law Faculty and has vast administrative experience. He has a number of books to his credit, which have been widely quoted by scholars in India and abroad.
Prof. Mustafa has specialization on new areas of legal studies such as Intellectual Property, Human Rights etc. He has written two books on the Right to information in 1997 and 2002 much before the Right to Information Act, 2005 came into existence. Besides being a visiting faculty to a number of reputed universities in India and abroad, he is the nominee of Chief Justice of India at various university bodies.