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AMU’s Prof Faizan Mustafa appointed CNLU vice chancellor

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UTTAR PRADESH:

Prof Faizan Mustafa was vice chancellor of NALSAR at Hyderabad before returning last year to Aligarh Muslim University’s law faculty.

Prof Faizan Mustafa was appointed on the recommendation of the search committee headed by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra
Prof Faizan Mustafa was appointed on the recommendation of the search committee headed by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra

Patna:

Prof Faizan Mustafa of the law faculty at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was on Tuesday appointed vice chancellor of the Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) in Patna.

The appointment was made on the recommendation of the search committee headed by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said Prof SP Singh, social sciences dean and facilitator of the search committee.

Prof Mustafa returned to AMU last year after spending a decade at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) as its vice-chancellor. He was previously the founder vice chancellor of National Law University, Odisha.

He also served as dean and registrar at the AMU.

Mustafa is the recipient of both Commonwealth Scholarship as well as Fulbright Fellowship. He was conferred the SAARC’s ‘Best Law Teacher Award’ in 2014 and has delivered lectures in almost 32 countries of the world like USA, UK, Australia, Germany, China, Germany, Israel etc. He also runs a YouTube channel, Legal Awareness WebSeries, which has over 700,000 subscribers.

CNLU vice chancellor Justice (retd) Mridula Mishra congratulated Prof Mustafa for his appointment as vice chancellor of the university set up in 2006.

source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> Education> Admissions / by Arun Kumar / July 18th, 2023

Faizan Mustafa elected president of the consortium of national law universities

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UTTAR PRADESH :

Hyderabad:

The National Academy of Law Studies and Research (NALSAR), Vice-Chancellor Professor Faizan Mustafa, has been elected president of the consortium of national law universities.

The consortium unanimously elected him president at its annual meeting.

Professor Poonam Saxena, Vice-Chancellor, NLU Jodhpur, was elected Vice President; Professor Vijender Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, MNLU, Nagpur, as convener, admission test for common law (CLAT) 2021; and Professor VC Vivekanandan, Vice-Chancellor, HNLU, Raipur, as a member of the Executive Committee for CLAT-2021.

After Mustafa virtually accepted his new role, he thanked the members for having confidence in him. He thanked the outgoing President, Professor V. Vijaykumar, for his visionary leadership.

Mustafa also thanked Professor Paramjit S. Jaswal, the outgoing vice-president, for his contributions to the issues fought by the consortium and his interventions in the executive committee and meetings of the governing bodies.

He seeks continued support and protection for Vijayakumar, who will continue as a member of the executive committee in his half-time position. The new executive committee will meet soon to finalize the details of CLAT-2021.

The governing body considered and approved the report of the grievance committee chaired by former Chief Justice of India Judge S. Rajendra Babu.

The members also thank Balraj Chauhan, Convener-CLAT 2020, for the successful completion of the process in an unprecedented year of Covid-19.

In his report, Chauhan gave details on CLAT-2020 and thanked the president and the members of the executive committee and governing body.

The governing body also appreciates the efforts of Mustafa, who fulfilled the duties of the secretary in the unusual circumstances of the sudden decision of the National Law School of India University to abandon CLAT 2020.

Mustafa said in his report that as many as eight meetings of the executive committee and six meetings of the governing body were held between September 3 and November 12 and that all decisions were taken in a consultative manner.

He also appreciated the efforts made by Sudhir Krishnaswamy to implement the reforms until the 3rd of September in the format of the CLAT paper and all other related matters.

Out of the 23 NLUs in the country, 22 students are increasing via CLAT.

source: http://www.deccan.news / Deccan News / Home> Local / November 14th, 2020

Mughals were leaders of first independence war, says NALSAR University of Law V-C

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Lucknow :

These are times of aggressive nationalism we are living in, said vice chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Faizan Mustafa, where we have started to consider Mughals not part of the country. Mustafa speaking at the grand 200th bicentenary birth anniversary celebrations of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in Lucknow on Tuesday went ahead to say that Mughals were in fact leaders of the first war of independence of 1857 and were considered so by the likes of Tipu Sultan, Tatya Tope and others.

“Mughals were an integral part of India who could not be fragmented from its soul and now we are here in these times of aggressive nationalism where we are having doubts about them. And this nationalism has not only made us target the Mughals, but also recently there were similar talks about Rabindranath Tagore,” said Mustafa who was the guest of honour at the Sir Syed Day organised by Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) Old Boys’ Association. Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali was the chief guest on the day, both of whom being former pupils of the university, recounted their time spent at AMU.

Mustafa also cleared that now when criticising the government is equated to being seditious, it was in 1860 after a fatwa (decree) from clerics at Deoband against the British that the law of sedition as a charge was enacted. Mustafa also exhorted his fellow Aligs (as past pupils of AMU are popularly known) that the dream of Sir Syed has not yet been realised with Muslims lagging in both modern education and securing government jobs.

In his brief speech, Mustafa also touched upon the controversy around AMU’s minority status and said, “People say that the minority status was for the college and with AMU a university, it does not stand now. I researched for this when I had to submit in Allahabad high court as AMU’s stand on the case and I found that when Sir Syed laid the foundation of the madrasa it was the university he had in mind and when he gave his first speech in 1877 when the school was raised to the college level, in front of Lord Lytton he said that one day the college would be a university.

Mustafa also said that blaming Sir Syed for the two nation theory was not just wrong but also absurd. “In several of his recorded speeches, he has identified and defined both Hindus and Muslims as not separate identities but one qaum (community) and one nation. Mustafa considered an authority on law also said that reforms in Muslim personal laws were needed and could only be possible through the ideas of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

ON the day, the AMU Old Boys’ Association and its members that had gathered in the city from different parts of the state passed the resolution to raise demand of Bharat Ratna for Sir Syed and to generate funds for a Sir Syed House in Lucknow to carry on his Aligarh movement of education.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News / by Yusra Hussain / TNN / October 18th, 2017