Prof. (Dr.) Risham Garg

Professor (Dr.) Risham Garg holds a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), doctoral research degree, for his work on International Commercial Law and Arbitration. He is currently engaged in research and teaching courses of Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws Seminar, Regulatory Practicum: Insolvency, Securities, Competition Seminar; Transnational Dispute Resolution and Emerging Technologies Seminar, Technology and Entrepreneurship Policy, Legal Writing & Business Law Research Methods to the PhD research scholars.

He is continuing with the National Law University Delhi as a regular faculty member since 2009, initially joining as an Assistant Professor of Law, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015, and currently as Professor of Law since 2020. He has previously worked as a Lecturer at the Amity Law School, (IP University Delhi) for over six years during 2002-2009. He has been invited as a visiting faculty at the Delhi Judicial Academy (DJA), LBSNAA Mussoorie, Indian Law Institute, Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), IICA- PGIP, IIT, IIM, ICSI, IIIPI-ICAI, ICMA, NLU’s.

He has also acted as a course faculty at the Judicial colloquium for the NCLT members in 2018. He has also acted as a consultant to the Directorate of Legal Education of the Bar Council of India. He has recently been working closely with the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) by providing valuable consultancy support, and also towards the Continuing Professional Education for Insolvency Professionals. He has also participated in ToT Workshop on Insolvency and Bankruptcy conducted by IFC World Bank and IBBI.

Since 2017, he has been spearheading the Arun Jaitley Insolvency & Bankruptcy Moot in collaboration with the IBBI, INSOL India, ILA.Recent Consultancy and Policy engagements: nominee to the UNIDROIT by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Member of Insolvency Law Academy Taskforce on IBC & PMLA Study, member Confederation of India Industries (CII) Task Force on Ease of Doing Business, since 2023. In 2019, he served as the Academic Consultant to the British High Commission and CII Project on ‘Implementation of Cross-Border Insolvency and Individual Insolvency in India’.