The idea of a university: A response to Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Can a university not be a space to debate and critique the hounding political issues of our time - including how court decisions and the law are framed - what Upendra Baxi terms ‘demosprudence’? How would social movements inform judicial decisions unless they are discussed beyond the four walls of the superior courts and the black letter of the law?
Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui is researcher and co-founder of Project Mishkat, a platform to facilitate legal discourse on Muslim identity in India. Dr. Siddiqui has previously taught at Jindal Global Law School, National University of Juridical Sciences and Aligarh Muslim University. He is interested in the intersection of law, religion and identity.