title: C. Raj Kumar
text: # C. Raj Kumar
  
  Chockalingam Raj Kumar is an Indian academic administrator currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of OP Jindal Global University in Sonipat, Haryana, India, and the Dean of the Jindal Global Law School.
  
  He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Previously, he has consulted United Nations University, Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme; and the International Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva, National Human Rights Commission of India.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Kumar received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University of Oxford, where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law degree; a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School where he obtained his Master of Laws degree. He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, India.
  
  He also was a research fellow at the NYU Law School.
  
  ## Books
  
  * Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance (2011), published by the Oxford University Press
  * Terrorism, Human Security and Development: Human Rights Perspectives (forthcoming, 2012), to be published by the United Nations University Press, approx. 300 pages (co-editor)
  * Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment (January 2007) published by the Oxford University Press
  * Tsunami and Disaster Management: Law and Governance (September 2006) published by Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia
  * Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance (July 2006) published by LexisNexis (Butterworths)
  