V G Hegde

Biography

Dr V.G.Hegde is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University (SAU). Before joining SAU he was an Associate Professor at the Centre for International Legal Studies (CILS), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), New Delhi. Dr. Hegde previously held the position of Legal Officer at the Asian African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC), now Asian African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO). Thereafter, he joined the Legal and Treaties Division of the Ministry of External Affairs and worked as Legal Officer and later as Senior Legal Officer. He joined JNU in August 2004 and SAU in September 2012. He was part of the Indian negotiating team on several bilateral investment and Trade Agreements. He has also worked on WTO issues, particularly on dispute settlement and Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). He was a member of the Working Group on Arbitration and E-Commerce constituted under the auspices of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICTRAL). He has also worked on the negotiating positions concerning India’s bilateral and multilateral watercourse agreements. His doctoral work was on Developing Countries and The Evolving Regime of Intellectual Property Rights. He has worked on various aspects of intellectual property rights such as Indian Patent System and the Paris Convention on Industrial Property, IPRs and Patenting of Life forms, Critique of the TRIPs Formulations and Its Implications on the Indian Patent System. Many of his writings have been published in various national and international legal journals. Dr Hegde is also a visiting faculty to the National Law Schools of Bangalore and Kolkota, Indian Law Institute and the Indian Society of International Law. He has also been invited by the National Judicial Academy as their resource person to deal with the issues of interrelationship between international law and municipal law within the specific context of Indian Higher Judiciary. He was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Law, University of Warwick in 2009. He is a life member of the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL) and has also been the Member of its Governing Council. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of International Law (IJIL)

Research Interest

Legal Studies