Mr. L.M.Singhvi
An eminent jurist, leading constitutional expert, distinguished parliamentarian, prominent citizen-intellectual, well-known human rights exponent, doyen of the Indian Bar and an author, poet, publicist, linguist and litterateur.He conceived and founded the Law Day, which is widely observed by the Bench and the Bar in India on 26 November every year and is the author of Law Day Charter of India. He has been member of the academic and research staff of the University of California at Berkeley, 1955-56, President of Supreme Court Bar Association of India (several terms), Senior Standing Counsel, Government of India, 1967-71 and State of U.P., 1968-72 and Advocate General, State of Rajasthan, 1972-77
Positions held:
1962-67 Member, Third Lok Sabha Member, All Select Committees constituted by Parliament on Constitutional Matters
1964-67 Member, Government of India Committee on Information and Broadcasting Media known as Chanda Committee.
1972-73 Member, Government of India Committee on Legal Aid and Processual Justice
1973-75 Chairman, Rajasthan Law Reforms, Legal Services and Legal Aid Commission
1986 Chairman, Committee on Revitalization of Panchayati Raj Institutions, Government of India
1991-97 High Commissioner for India in U.K. (worked out a bilateral model for fighting terrorism and has shown how international criminal jurisprudence should be developed on a world wide basis); put Cultural and Economic Diplomacy in the forefront
July 1998 Elected to Rajya Sabha
1999-2000 Appointed, Commissioner of Inquiry into Administration of Justice in Trinidad and Tobago
June 2000 Elected President, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (I.G.N.C.A.) for ten years
July 2000 Elected Member, Permanent Court of Arbitation at the Hague for six years
Aug. 2000-01 Chairman, High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora (Rank of Union cabinet Minister)
2001 onwards Member, Committee on Home Affairs Member, Committee on External Affairs
May 2002 onwards Member, Committee of Privileges
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, LITERARY, ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Awards:
Inter- Faith Gold Medallion Award by the International Council of Christians and Jews, October, 1994
U Thant Peace Award, 1995 by the Sri Chinmoy Peace Foundation
Padma Bhushan, 1998;
Other accomplishments:
President of the World Parliament of Religions held at Chicago, 1993.
Was invited to deliver the keynote address to the Centennial World Conference
Elected in 1987 as Honorary Bencher and Master, The Middle Temple (U.K.), one of the highest honours in the gift of Judges and Lawyers in U.K
Received world wide acclaim for his Report on the Independence of Justice and his Draft Universal Declaration on the Independence of Justice in the United Nations Human Rights Sub-Commission, August 1987.
President, National School of Drama; Chairman, National School of Drama, 1978-82;
Poet and author; presided over Jnanpith Creativity Festival of eminent litterateurs in Bombay, 1983
Books published:
"Freedom on Trial", Vikas Publishing House;
Sandhya Ka Suraj (a collection of Hindi Poems),National Publishing House, New Delhi;
Bharat Aur Hamara Samay (compendium of essays on contemporary India), Nataraj Prakashans, New Delhi,
"A Tale of Three Cities", Cambridge University Press, 1996;
"Jurisprudence of Non-Violence and Peace", Leicester University;
"Democracy and Rule of Law", 2002;
"Towards Global Togetherness", 2002;
"Jain Temples in India and around the World," 2002 and "A Diplomatic Sojourn", 2002;
Co-author and editor of 175 books, monographs and research papers on diverse subjects; writes poetry and literary essays also.