Bimal N. Patel

Dr. Bimal N. Patel is Professor of International Law and Vice-Chancellor of the Rashtriya Raksha University, an Institute of National Importance of India, established by the Parliament of India through RRU Act No. 31, by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The headquarters of the University is in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Professor Patel has been serving as a Member of the National Security Advisory Board, an advisory board to the National Security Council headed by the Prime Minister of India. He is a member of the Financial Sector Regulatory Appointments Search Committee (FSRASC), headed by the Cabinet Secretary, established by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) to make recommendations of candidates for the top positions of the financial regulators of India – Reserve Bank of India, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority of India, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and International Financial Services Centre Authority. Patel served as the Director of the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar for two consecutive terms (2008-2019). He was appointed by a high-level committee headed by the then Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan, at the Supreme Court of India. He served as a member of the 21st Law Commission of India, headed by Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, Supreme Court of India, and contributed independently or jointly 15 reports or referrals by the Supreme Court of India, including among others, criminal justice reforms, one nation-one election, sedition law, tribunalisation of justice system and prepared consolidated report on all Central Acts of India from 1834 to 2017. He is also one of the Lead Academic Advisers to India for India's tenure as a member of the UN Security Council 2021-22. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the ICRC International Review of the Red Cross, Geneva. He has served or serves various governmental and public sector organisations and academic institutions. His publications on India and International Law and Responsibility of International Organisations are reviewed and referred by international law scholars and journals. Patel is a former international civil servant, scholar, and academician of international law and diplomacy. An international law jurist, he has extensively studied, researched, commented, and published works on the administrative, procedural and substantive jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal (Geneva). He has published, edited several books, research papers/articles/surveys in leading academic and international law journals. He has been involved in drafting several national and state primary and secondary legislation, regulations, rules. He has delivered and served as Visiting Faculty at universities in Asia-Pacific and Europe. He has served at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Hague, Netherlands.