K B Agrawal

Professor K.B. Agrawal is the Director of the Indian Institute of Comparative Law, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He has experience of teaching LLB and LLM classes for he last thirty-eight years. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the renowned Indian Socio Legal Journalfor the last thirty-nine years. He has written more than 150 research papers published in various law journals of the world. He has written many books; the most important of them are Some Thoughts on Modern Jurisprudence(1976); Random Thoughts on Family Law(1981); Writings on Legal Education(1982); Comparative Constitutionalism(1992); and Legal Pluralism in India(2006). He wrote a monograph on Indian and Inter-country Adoption Law, Published by the Kluwer Law International, London. He has also written monographs on India for the Encyclopedia of Family Law and Children-Indian Section(in German Language), International Encyclopedia of Laws on Family and Succession Law, Private International Lawand Insurance Law, Commercial and Economic Law, Corporations and partnerships. He also revised the Indian section of the International Encyclopedia on Civil Procedure2006 and 2009, Family and Succession Law, Private International Law, Insurance Law, 2012. Professor Agrawal has also been an advocate for several years. He worked for the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden in 1979. He was at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany in 1981. He also did research work at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany under the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD) in 1995 and at the International Institute for Unification of Private Law (popularly known as UNIDROIT), Rome, Italy in 2001.