TRIPATHY, Rangin P. Prof. (Dr.)
Professor of Law
Email: rangintripathy@nluo.ac.in,
rangin.tripathy@gmail.com
Contact:+91 671 2338014/15/16/17, Ext. 5027
Academic Awards:
Qualifications:
Current Courses:
Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Scholar (Harvard Law School) 2019-20
- Ph.D. (National Law University Odisha, Cuttack) 2015
- LLM (National Law School of India University, Bangalore) 2010
- BA. LL.B Hons (University Law College, Bhubaneswar) 2008
Judicial Reforms, Civil Liberties, Electoral Reforms, Access to Justice, Criminal Law
- Comparative Judicial Reforms
- Constitutional Governance
Rangin works in the area of constitutional governance, civil liberties, criminal law and gender rights. His current research focuses on the functioning of institutions within constitutional democracies and the way they affect realization of democratic rights.
His doctoral thesis was the first of its kind in India focusing on the performance evaluation of judges in Indian higher judiciary. He completed his Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship from Harvard Law School where researched on the competing methods of appointing judges in democracies.
He has completed two research projects funded by the Department of Justice, Government of India in the area of judicial reforms. One was on performance appraisal schemes in Indian lower judiciary and the other one was on functioning of Lok Adalats as an alternative to traditional litigation. At present, I am heading two internationally funded research projects in the area of tobacco control and domestic violence.
Books
- Rights Without Law, 2010, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 1st Edition, Saarbrücken
- Unveiling India's Supreme Court Collegium: Examining Diversity of Presence and Influence 2023 (18) 1 Asian Journal of Comparative Law Read
- The Future of Equal Pay in Sports, 2022 (7) 1 Comparative Constitutional and Administrative Law Journal 1 (Co-authored) Read
- The New Normal of Indian Parliamentary Democracy, 2022 (1-2) Journal of National Law University Delhi 62 Read
- The Supreme Court Collegium and Transparency: A Non-Committal Relationship 2021 (17) 1 Socio-Legal Review 1 Read
- The Supreme Court Collegium and Transparency: An Empirical Enquiry, 2021 (56) 22 Economic and Political Weekly 33 Read
- An Empirical Assessment of the Collegiums Impact on Composition of the Indian Supreme Court, 2020 (32) National Law School of India Review 118 (Co-authored) Read
- Who are our judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practices of Indian Supreme Court Judges, 2020 (9) Indian Journal of Constitutional Law 92 (Co-authored) Read
- Standard of Proof in Inquiry Against Judges: A Case for a Lower Threshold, 2018 (5) 2 NLUJ Law Review 85 Read
- Appointment of Judges of the High Court in Australia: A Critique, (2017) 3 (2) Rostrums Law Review 116 Read
- A Critical Analysis of Appointment of Federal Supreme Court Judges in United States of America, (2017) 5 (2) Christ University Law Journal 23 Read
- A Child No More, (2016) 3 (1) NLUO Law Journal, Special Edition on Child Rights 178
- Comparative Analysis of The Consultative Process in Appointment of Judges, 2015(7) RMLNLU Journal 94
- Access to Justice and Judicial Performance Evaluation, (2015) 2 (1) NLUO Law Journal Special Edition on Access to Justice 106
- Defining Misbehaviour for Removal of Judges: The Logical Fallacy and Necessary Politicisation, (2015) 5 (1) NIRMA University Law Journal 1 Read
- Promoting a Notion of Refugee Protection: Role of Religion as a Value Influence on Law, (2012) 3 (2) GNLU Law Review
- Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Appraisal of Incumbency of Supreme Court Judges,ShrutiVidyasagar, Harish Narasappa and Ramya Sridhar Tirumalai (eds), Approaches to Justice in India- A Report by DAKSH (DAKSH, 2017) (Co-Author) Read
- Critical Overview of Judicial Selection Methods,Vijender Kumar, NareshKumar Vats and Vijay Pratap Tiwari (eds), Law, Judiciary and Governance: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Mool Chand Sharma(Universal Law Publishing, 2017)
- Chief Justice of India and Right to Information, Dr. Sukanta K. Nanda (ed) Right to Information Act: Implementation and Challenges,(OJR Publishing Company 2017) (Co-Author)
- Constitutional Deficiencies in Redressal of Violations of International Human Rights Obligations in India, International Human Rights Law: Prospects and Challenges(RGNUL, 2016)
- Human Rights: A Neverland,Gurdip Singh & V.K. Ahuja (eds) Human Rights in 21st Century- Changing Dimensions(Universal Law Publishing, 2012)(Co-Author)
- Flaw in Supreme Court’s electoral bonds verdict leaves room for another similar scheme to be floated”, The Scroll, 20.02.2024, Read
- SC ruling on electoral bonds is a vaccine for the future not medicine for the present”, The Print, 16.02.2024, Read
- Subject To Review, The Statesman, 23.03.2023 Read
- Who gets to be a High Court Chief Justice in India? Scroll, 30.09.2022 Read
- What private companies did India’s HC Judges serve? KHOJ dataset is filling info gaps, The Print, 19.09.2022 Read
- Who are our judges?, The Leaflet, 01.07.2022 Read
- Justice Hari Shankar’s defence of Marital Rape is a homage to patriarchy, The Leaflet, 05.06.2022Read
- Why the Supreme Court's assault on the right to protest is fundamentally undemocratic, The Scroll, 07.10.2021 Read
- All India Judicial Service won't solve pendency. And no, the IAS,IPS parallel doesn't work, The Print, 16.11.2021 Read
- India's higher judiciary lacks professional diversity. It's now a monopoly of lawyer-judges, The Print, 11.06.2021 Read
- 'India’s effort to criminalize adultery for the armed forces reflects a paternalistic mindset', Scroll, 01.02.2021 (Co-authored) Read
- “Role of the Bar Council of India as a Regulator: Untenable with the real vision of legal education?” Bar and Bench, 10.01.2021 (Co-authored) Read
- Scrapping one-year LLM smart, but BCI’s common post-grad entrance is a problem, The Print, 08.01.2021 (Co-authored) Read
- With ShaheenBagh ruling, court gifts state more power to control democratic dissent, Scroll, 13.10.2020 Read
- Some Gain, Some Pain, Orissa Post, 02.09.2020 Read
- Orissa HC judgement highlights the challenge of protecting privacy of COVID-19 patients, Law and Other Things 21.08.2020 (Co-authored) Read
- Do we lose our basic rights because there is a pandemic? Deccan Herald, 04.06.2020 Read
- UPs Migrant Commission seems to imagine that its workers are the absolute property of the state, Scroll, 02.06.2020 Read
- Orissa court order on testing migrants highlights needless judicial intervention in COVID-19 crisis, Scroll, 09.05.2020 Read
- Indian government has multiple legal options to force citizens to vaccinate against Covid, The Print, 30.04.2020 Read
- This is how Odisha quarantined me after I returned from Harvard. Other states should learn, The Print, 03.04.2020 Read
- Reservation as a Right: The Supreme Court is both wrong and right on the government’s discretion to implement quota, Bar and Bench, 11.02.2020 Read
- So far, OCI cardholders have enjoyed benefits. With CAA, India has put a price on the scheme, Scroll, 27.01.2020 Read
- Immorality of Protesting Lawyers: Role of lawyers in hampering judicial productivity should be recognized and remedied, Firstpost, 21.01.2020 Read
- Are lawyers right to strike work, Deccan Herald, 20.01.2020 Read
- Forget Modi’s ‘Justice for all’ mission, Indian judiciary must to justice to its data first, The Print, 07.11.2019 Read
- Dealing with a more assertive Executive: Collegium Needs to clarify policy on Regional Diversity, Bar and Bench, 02.11.2019 Read
- Odisha Lawyers’ Boycott of High Court focuses attention yet again on opacity of collegium system, Scroll, 25.10.2019 Read
- Assessing Judicial officers: An Exercise in Unfettered Subjectivity, Deccan Herald, 11.10.2019 Read
- Don’t Judges Need the Trust of People More than People Need to Trust Judges?, The Wire, 07.10.2019 Read
- Who’s a Good Judge? Inconsistent, Vague Parameters Across HCs make appraisal of judicial officers muddled, Firstpost, 01.10.2019 Read
- Lessons Unlearnt: Linguistic Policy should not be driven by Politic of Identity, Indian Express, 24.09.2019 Read
- Tahilramani's resignation: Mysterious 'public interest' Deccan Herald, 11.09.2019 Read
- Venkaiah Naidu for Regional Supreme Court Benches to ensure equitable justice but logistics, lawyers’ groups may be hurdlesFirstpost, 16.08.2019 Read
- Fewer Indian women in higher judiciary? Blame high court collegiums, suggests data, The Print, 21.07.2019 Read
- Tenure of SC Judges getting shorter: Intentional or Incidental?, Law and Other Things, 09.08.2018 Read
- In need of a practical plan- on judicial appointments, The Hindu 10.07.2018 (Co-authored) Read
- Appointment of Judges to Higher Courts Governed by Instrument Lacking Democratic Scrutiny, The Print, 20.06.2018 (Co-authored) Read
- A Peripheral View of a Central Problem- Central Selection Mechanism and Appointment of District Judges, Business Standard, 17.07.2017 (Co-authored) Read
- Insanity and Intoxication as Exceptions to Criminal Liability, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Substantive Criminal Law, for the Subject: Law (2015)
- Post Renaissance Development of Natural Law- Social Contract Theories, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Advanced Jurisprudence, for the Subject: Law(2015)
- Critical Understanding of Power-Liability Relation in Hohfeld’s Analysis, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Advanced Jurisprudence, for the Subject: Law(2015)
- Elements of Crime, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Stages of Crime, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Models of Criminal Justice System, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- General Exceptions- Part (A), UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- General Exceptions- Part (B), UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Basic Principles of Evidence Law, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Basic Principles of Code of Criminal Procedure, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Fundamentals of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Reformative and Rehabilitative Theories of Punishment, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Penology and Sentencing, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Right to Pre-Sentence Hearing, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Penology and Sentencing, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
- Judicial Limitation on Death Penalty Sentencing, UGC E-Pathshala Module for the Paper Penology and Sentencing, for the Subject: Criminology(2017)
Research Projects:
- Project Leader in the Project on ‘Addressing Domestic Violence in Odisha through Institutionalized Domestic Violence Response Protocols’ funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Netherlands (Ongoing)
- Project Leader in the Project on ‘Tobacco Control Initiatives’ funded by the The Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (Ongoing)
- Assistant Project Leader in the Project on ‘Women Safety Audit in the City of Asansol’ funded by the National Commission for Women (Ongoing)
- Co-Investigator in the research project on ‘A Comparative Analysis of Performance Appraisal Mechanisms and Schemes of Promotion in relation to the Judges of Subordinate Judiciary in different States in India’ funded by the Department of Justice (Government of India) Read
- Co-Investigator in the research project on ‘An Analysis of the Functioning of Look Adalats in the Eastern Region of India’ funded by the Department of Justice (Government of India) Read
Seminar and Conference Papers
- Presented a paper on “Future of Judicial Appointments: The Experiment of Realigned Democratic Principles in India” in the 15th Asian Law Institute Annual Conference organised by School of Law, Seoul National University on 10.05.2018 and 11.05.2018.
- Presented a paper on “Rights of Transgender: Exploring Constitutional Values” in the National Seminar on Rights of Transgender: Issues and Challenges organised by University Law College, Utkal University on 18.03.2018.
- Presented a paper on “Tribal Rights in the Context of Biodiversity Conservation- The Need of an Inclusive Process” in the National Seminar on Tribal Rights and Rights of Indigenous People organised by Madhusudan Law College, Utkal University on 29.03.2017.
- Presented a paper on “Understanding the Idea of Public Interest in the Context of Right to Privacy and Media’s Freedom of Speech” in the National Seminar on Role of Media in Protection of Human Rights organised by University Law College, Utkal University on 18.03.2017.
- Participated as a Leading Discussant in the National Consultation on Universal Periodic Review organised by National Law University Delhi on 29.04.2016.
- Presented a Paper on “Chief Justice of India and the Right to Information” at the National Seminar on Right to Information Act- Implementation and Challenges organised by MS Law College, Cuttack on 28th February 2016.
- Presented a Paper on “Constitutional Deficiencies in Redressal of Violations of International Human Rights Obligations in India” at National Seminar on International Human Rights Law: Prospects and Challenges organised by Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala on 20th February 2016.
- Presented a paper on “A Statistical Model of Evaluating the Performance of Judges in India” at the National Seminar on Judiciary Ethics and Justice Delivery System organised by National Law University Odisha and Institute of Objective Studies held on 21st and 22nd of January, 2012
- Presented a Paper on “Legal Response to Surrogacy Contracts” at National Seminar on Surrogacy in India: Problem and Law organized by University Law College, Utkal University held on 28-29 March 2011.
- Presented a paper on “The Role of Indian Judiciary in the Absence of Implementing Legislation” at the National Conference on Indian Constitution in the 21st Century; A Conceptual and Contextual Audit at Bangalore conducted by School of Law, Christ University on 24th and 25th of February 2011.
- Presented a Paper on “Performance Evaluation of Teachers; Emerging Dynamics” at All India Teachers’ Congress organized at KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar on 19.12.2010.