PEGU, Kumarjeeb (Mr.)
Asst. Professor of Law
Email: kumarjeebpegu@gmail.com, kumarjeebpegu@nluo.ac.in
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Qualifications:
- LLM (Nalsar Law Uni.) 2017
- LLB (Uni. Of Delhi) 2015
- BA Pol. Sci. Hons. ( Uni. Of Delhi) 2012
- Forest Rights and Tribes, environmental law, international law and allied papers mainly from the domain of public international law, international institutions, trade law, etc., labour laws
Articles:
- 2021: ‘Is Safta Relevant? A Critical Scrutiny of its Competitive Edge’— (2021) 11 KIIT Journal of Law and Society. 18-27.
- 2019: ‘Disappearing Earth”- Environment Induced Migration: Impact on India and the World’ (with Mitul Dutta) (2019) 49: 1 Environmental Policy and Law 63-75.
- 2019: ‘A Brief Perspective on the Establishment of Pollution Control Boards in India and their Functions’ (2019) VII Fiat Justitia 115-122.
- 2024: 'Nomads and Forest Rights, Is It a Myth? An Indian Perspective on the Forest-Dependent Pastoral Communities and Their Practices in Protected Areas' in T. Venthan Ananthavinayagan and A. Viswanath Shenoy (eds.), The Wretched of the Global South, International Law and the Global South. 127-146. (Springer Nature Singapore). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9275-1_7
- 2022: ‘Impact of Legal Instruments in Improving Domestic Water Supply, Case Study Involving Two Nations Tagged with Most Significant Improvement’ (with Mohanty, T., Samal, K.P.) in B. Das Et al (eds), Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020), 461- 474 (Springer Nature Singapore).
- 2021: ‘Tribals and Forest Rights in India: A Critical Appraisal of the Legal Literature’ in Volker Mauerhofer (eds), The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability, May 2021, 149-167 (Routledge).
Major -
- Presently continuing ‘Anthropogenic and Geogenic Contamination of Ground water in Bhubaneswar Urban Catchment -A Systematic Investigation’ (working as Co-Principal Investigator in the project approved and mandated by ICSSR, New Delhi)
- 2019-2021 ‘Social Determiners of Water Inequity – A Systematic Investigation at Bhubaneswar’(worked as Co-Principal Investigator in the project approved and mandated by ICSSR, New Delhi).
- 2024:‘Sustainable Practices in access to water and the role of legal governance in wastewater disposal: An Indian Legal Analysis’ (oral presentation) presented at 3rd IIT Roorkee Water Conclave, 2024.
- 2023: ‘Assamese Tribal and the Forest Rights Manifesting, or is it? A Social Legal Investigation’ (oral presentation) presented at the WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 2023: ‘Symposium on the Right to Housing and Land’: Challenges and Access to Justice’, (attended at NLUO, Cuttack, 2023).
- 2023: “One-Month Online National Faculty Induction Programme/Orientation Course organized by Guru Angad Dev Teaching Learning Centre, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) of Union Ministry of Education.
- 2021: ‘Conceptualization and Confrontation Strategies for Water Inequity’ (Co- authored paper presented at the HYDRO Conference 2020, NIT Rourkela, 2021).
- 2021: ‘Impact of Legal Instruments in Improving Domestic Water Supply, Case Study Involving Two Nations Tagged with Most Significant Improvement’ (paper presented at International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI), Bhubaneswar, 2020).
- 2019: ‘Tribals and Forest Rights in India’ (paper presented at 25th ISDRS Conference, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 2019).
- 2019: ‘The United Nations’ Development Programme Workshop on Biological Diversity Laws’, (workshop attended at NLUO, Cuttuck, 2019).
- 2018: ‘Workshop on Development of LL.B Course curriculum in India’, (workshop attended at KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar, 2018).
- 2017: ‘Workshop on Development of LL.B Course curriculum in India’, (workshop attended at KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar, 2017),
- 2018: ‘ADB Regional Capacity Development Technical Assistance Strengthening the Capacity for Environment and Climate Change Laws in Asia and the Pacific (Train the Trainers Program)’, (training programme attended at Open Uni. Of Sri Lanka, organized with Asian Development Bank and IUCN, Colombo, 2018).
- 2018: ‘Advocacy Skill Training of Trainers Programme’, (training programme attended at KIIT School of Law, Odisha, 2018).
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(Additionally, since 2017, Mr. Kumarjeeb Pegu actively engaged in multiple academic discourses and deliberations at both national and international levels.)
- Academic Fellowship-
- Visiting fellow under the Warwick National Law Schools Academic Fellowship Programme 2023-24 at Warwick Law School, Warwick University for the year 2023-24. (2024)
- Delivered talk on “Does law empower Pastoral Communities? A Critical Note on India's Forest Rights” as part of the course on International Development Law and Human Rights (IDLHR) at Warwick Law School.(2024)
- Delivered lectures under the Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law (PGDEL) programme for Indian Forest Services (IFoS) officer trainees conducted at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) (Dehradun, India) in the area of ‘natural resources law and tribal peoples’ rights’ with a focus on India’s Forest and wildlife protection legislations.’ (2023)
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- Delivered talk on “Nomadic tribes and Protected Areas” at the symposium on ‘The Right to Housing and Land’: Challenges and Access to Justice’ was organised on September 23, 2023 by National Law University Odisha in collaboration with The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) and The Centre for the Sustainable Use of Natural and Social Resources (CSNR)(2023)
- Delivered lectures at the Government of Bihar’s Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (Bihar, India) on the topics of (i) Sustainable practices in access to water and the role of legal governance in wastewater disposal, (ii) An Indian legal perspective on E-waste management and India's looming solar waste generation and (iii) A legal overview of Waste Management and Impact in India. (2023)
- Delivered lecture on “Workers’ rights and labour law” organized by National Law University, Odisha under its Law and Justice program for visiting students from Victoria Uni., Melbourne (Australia). (2022)
- Delivered lecture on “How to write impactful Doctrinal Paper” organized by School of Law, KIIT D-U on the occasion of the Online Faculty Development Program- 2021 entitled ‘Exploring self: A New Paradigm in Education. (2021)
- Delivered lecture on “Forest Rights – A Legal Perspective of Indigenous Peoples' Right to Agriculture” organized for the benefit of the staff of ICAR- Central Institute for Women in Agriculture on 16th September 2020 in connection with the observation of Constitution Day and Citizens’ Duties Campaign. (2020)