Prof. M.K. Balachandran
Director, Amity Law School, Delhi

Prof. M.K. Balachandran, the Founder Director of Amity Law School has more than 35 years of teaching, research and training experience in India and abroad. He started his career in the Department of Law of Kerala University and thereafter worked in various capacities in different institutions of repute. He worked as a member of the faculty in the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore and as a Legal Consultant for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), New Delhi.

He spent more than a decade in the Indian Institute of Public Administration, a premier training institute of the Government of India, organizing research-based training programmes for senior and middle level administrators of the Central, State and Local Governments including officers of the municipal corporations, town planning organizations and urban development authorities. He organized training programmes on a regular basis on "Law and Urban Development", "Urban Plan Administration", "Laws in Municipal Administration", "Legal Dimensions of Administrative Decisions", "Administrative Law" and "Consumer Protection".

He was associated with the National Law School of India University, Bangalore from its inception in 1988 and was involved in building up the Law School through research, training, teaching and consultancy.

During his tenure, he completed a number of research projects in the field of law which include projects on Town Planning and Urban Development Authority Legislation sponsored by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, the Role and Rights of Women in Land Development sponsored by UNDP, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Implementation of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 sponsored by the Government of India and Consumer Protection Act & Medical Profession sponsored by IIPA, New Delhi. As a Legal Consultant of the International Committee of the Red Cross he completed a project on National Implementation of Humanitarian Law in India. He also worked as Legal Consultant on the project on Reducing Poverty in Urban India sponsored by the Asian Development Bank.

He has published more than 40 articles and a few books on the legal aspects of administration including issues in Local Government, Urban Planning, Land Acquisition, Environmental Pollution, Consumer Protection, Right to Information and Legal Aid to the poor.

Prof. Balachandran also worked as Editor of a number of journals including the Kerala University Law Review, Nagarlok (an urban affairs quarterly published by the Centre for Urban Studies, IIPA) the Bulletin on IHL and Refugee Law [published by the Indian Centre for Humanitarian Laws and Research (ICHLR)] and presently as the Chief Editor of Amity Law Review (published by Amity Law School).