Open Markets, Free Trade and Sustainable Development Perspectives from EU and India

Mahendra Pal Singh is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Delhi and Chair Professor of Comparative Law at National Law University Delhi. He has also served as Vice Chancellor of National University of Judicial Sciences, Kolkata and as Chair of the Delhi Judicial Academy He was a Visiting Professor and fellow at various institutions and universities around the globe and in India. His publications include well over one hundred papers in national and international legal journals and several books. He is the founding editor of the NUJS Law Review and The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law , and has collaborated in national and international research projects in the area of comparative public law and also directed a project on the nature of the Indian legal system. Wolfram Cremer is Dean and Chair Professor of Public Law and European Law, at the Faculty of Law, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Facultyof Law, National University of Singapore. Since 2005, he has been the Director of the Institute for Mining and Energy Law at Ruhr University. He has contributed numerous book chapters and essays and edited several monographs and books. He has also made valuable contributions through commentaries, reviews, case discussions and conference reports. Niraj Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor at the National Law University Delhi, where he is also the Research director at the Centre for Comparative Law at National Law University, Delhi. He taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He has published numerous articles in national and international journals and has presented papers on environmental law, constitutional law and comparative public law at various conferences. His areas of interest are administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, interpretation of statutes, jurisprudence and comparative law.