Sanjeevi Shanthakumar

Sanjeevi Shanthakumar
Director of Gujarat National Law University
Incumbent
Assumed office 2019
Preceded by	Bimal N. Patel
Personal details
Alma mater	University of Madras
Profession	Academician

Sanjeevi Shanthakumar is the current director of Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. He was appointed by a committee headed by Justice Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud.^[1] He is also the Provost of Gujarat Maritime University, Gandhinagar.^[2] Earlier, he was the pro vice chancellor and dean, School of Law at G.D. Goenka University, Gurgaon; founder dean, Faculty of Law at SGT University, Gurgaon; founder director of ITM Law School, ITM University, Gurgaon; founder director of MATS Law School, MATS University, Raipur; controller of examinations and associate professor of law at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur; senior lecturer at Government Law College, Madurai and Government Law College, Chennai. Before joining the legal academia he had practiced at the Madras High Court for seven years as an advocate. He had his training on teaching law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore under a World Bank funded project and at the Cardiff Law School, Cardiff, Wales, UK under a British Council funded project. He has been involved in training the Law Teachers on Law Teaching and Legal Research at various universities in India as part of a British Council funded project. He had visited premier universities across the globe, including Oxford, to understand the best practices in legal education. He has been a very active member of the International Association of Law Schools,^[3] USA. He was awarded the Environmental Law Champions Development Award by the Asian Development Bank. He has a unique experience of establishing three elite law schools on a self-financing mode and has been a consultant for a number of upcoming law schools.