Relevance of Duties in the Contemporary World

Raman Mittal is a Professor at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He holds LL.M. and Ph.D. from Panjab University, Chandigarh together with M.S.S. from International Space University, France. His research interests include Intellectual Property, Contract and International Laws. He has published extensively in national and international journals and has also authored many books. Prof. Mittal has visited various national and international legal institutions in the capacity of visiting faculty; the prominent being University of Oxford, Max Planck Institute of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich and University of Washington, Seattle. Prof. Mittal has advised the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in treaty negotiations and has been a member of the Drafting Committee that was tasked with the drafting of Copyright Rules, 2013. Kshitij Kumar Singh is an Assistant Professor at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He earned his LL.M. and PhD degrees from Banaras Hindu University and received Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship Asia-Pacific 2010. As a Visiting Researcher, he visited the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 2009 and 2010. His primary area of interest is the intersection of law and biotechnology, particularly ethical, legal and policy issues relating to biomedical technology. He published his first book, "Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Social Implications", with Springer in 2015, followed by the book as an editor and author, “Policy Issues in GM Crops: A Global Perspective”, with Academic Press, Elsevier (2020). Currently, he is working on a book project, “Legal and Policy Framework of Precision Medicine”, with Prof. Shubha Ghosh, Syracuse University College of Law, New York. He has also published numerous articles, reviews and book chapters on various aspects of intellectual property law and biotechnology law with esteemedpublishers including Oxford, Edward Elgar, Cambridge, Elsevier and Springer Nature. He has been invited as a resource person and speaker in national and international workshops, conferences, seminars and government consultative groups (notably, University of Utah, Texas A&M University, Indian Patent Office, RGNIIPM, ONGC, RIS, DIPP & DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry). On 18th December 2021, he was conferred with the "International Teaching Excellence Award 2021 in Intellectual Property Law" by the Center for Professional Advancement (A Unit of IMRF registered with Govt. of India NITI Aayog). Recently he has been invited as the Visiting Researcher by the Centre for Advanced Studies of Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL), University of Copenhagen, Denmark (The visit is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation).

Chapter 1: Relevance Of Duties Through The Lens Of Gandhi And East-West Jurisprudence.- Chapter 2: Individual and Community Interests: A Critical Analysis with the help of Gandhian Philosophy.- Chapter 3: Individual as the Supreme Consideration: Analysing the Gandhian Philosophy on Rights and Duties.- Chapter 4: Duties—the Building Blocks to Rights.- Chapter 5: Duties—the Building Blocks to Rights.