Aspiring Lawyers win the Best Research Paper Award at UNAI
This major feat has been achieved by Ms. Sukanya Banerjee from Amity Law School, Mumbai and Mr. Mayank Rathod from ABA College of Law, Dadar affiliated to Mumbai University. They have won the “Best Paper Award’’ at the 10th Anniversary International Conference of the United Nations Academic Impact.
In the light of celebrating the 10th Anniversary of United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), Chandigarh University in Mohali, India organized a two-day conference to celebrate its success. The conference focused on discussing the way forward in the field of higher education. United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is an initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in supporting and contributing to the realization of United Nations goals and mandates, including the promotion and protection of human rights, access to education, sustainability and conflict resolution.
Sukanya Banerjee and Mayank Rathod presented their paper on the topic “Qualitative Higher Education in the Legal Field” to incorporate multilateralism and the United Nations global agenda in higher education curriculum and pedagogy in a more impact-focused manner. They have suggested opportunities and strategies for collaborative higher legal education impact in emerging economies.
They have recommended ideas to assist stakeholders in the legal field by providing information on activities, initiatives and have given suggestions on how these methods can be applied at the grass-root level in law schools and universities, where students, professors and attorneys can interact and discuss ideas.
By proposing methods of qualitative higher legal education, they aim to achieve the goals and mandates of promotion and protection of human rights, access to clinical education, sustainability and conflict resolution in the legal field.
There were paper presentations by various students related to the different dimensions of higher education and sustainable development. Students from Tanzania, Malawi, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Qatar and Tunisia, as well as, Bhutan, Nepal, Ghana, and Afghanistan, along with other UNAI member institutions from India that participated in the conference.