V.C. Vivekanandan

Country:	India
Email:	vivekvc2001[at]yahoo.co.in vivek[at]nalsarpro.org
LinkedIn:	[V.C. Vivekanandan V.C. Vivekanandan]

Dr. V. C. Vivekanandan is the Director of the Legal Information Institute of India and Professor and Head National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) Proximate Education, University of Law at Hyderabad. He also serves as IP Chair Professor of the Ministry of Human Resources Information and Adjunct Visiting Professor at the University of Buffalo Business School in New York. He is a member of the Nominating Committee (NomCom) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers until the expiration of his term in 2012.

Expertise

Dr. Vivekanandan has an extensive experience in academic research and advocacy. He is expert in the field of Intellectual Property Rights, Internet Laws and international Trade laws.

Career History

In 1992, Dr. Vivekanandan started his teaching career as a faculty member of the National Law School of India, Bangalore.In 1992, he started working for the Dalal Street Journal as Bureau Head. He later became Editor and Publisher of Inde Global Communications. From 1998 t0 2001, he returned teaching at the National Law School of India. He also taught internet governance and cyber laws to law students and working professionals in the four cities India. Since 2001, he is serving as Professor and Head of NALSAR Proximate Education, University of Law and IP Chair Professor of Intellectual Property Rights of Ministry of Human Resources Development for the government of India since. Prior to this position, he was the Dean of Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law at IIT Kharagpur and Head of the Distance Education Department of the National Law School of India in Bangalore. In 2007, he became Adjunct Visiting Professor of the University of Buffalo, Business School. In 2008, he was one of the participant at the Hague Conference on Private International Law on Online Jurisdiction Issues on Legal information. In 2010, he became the Director of the Legal Information Institute of India. At present, he is a research fellow at Maastricht University, School of Law in Netherlands under the 2010 ICCSR NWO Exchange Scholarship Program. He is also an Honorary Advisor for IP Dome, a firm specializing in providing IP management services for companies. He is a member of the Ethics Committee at AP Venture Capital Fund and Administrative Staff College Hyderabad, member of the IP Policy Committee of Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneshwar and Advisory Member of the Copyright office for the government of India.

Education

Dr. Vivekanandan received his Doctorate Degree in Intellectual Property Rights from the National Law School of India. He also holds a M.L. in Corporate Law and Securities from Nagarjuna University, M.A. and MPhil in Public Administration from Madra Christian College and University in Madras respective. He received his B. Sc. From Presidency College.

ICANN Involvement

Dr. Vivekanan is actively involved in the different activities of ICANN. In 2008, he was elected as the ALAC member from the Asia Pacific Region. After his term in 2010, he was selected by ALAC to serve as member of ICANN's NomCom until 2010. He also participated during the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which was held Hyderabad in 2008.