Corporate Law Lectures

NUJS was recently witness to a series of lectures entitled ‘Corporate Law – Principles to Practice’ by Mr. Edward Walker-Arnott. Mr. Walker-Arnott, currently a consultant at Herbert Smith LLP, and formerly a Senior Partner (1992-2000), is widely acknowledged to be an expert in the realm of contemporary commercial law and usage. Additionally, having been a supervisor of company law at Trinity College and a Visiting Professor at University College, London, he is no stranger to academia either.

At NUJS, we were fortunate to have a total of seven sessions, which attempted to encompass almost all of the major strands of corporate law; ranging from corporate governance to share capital, insolvency issues or investor protection stratagems. Mr. Walker-Arnott, in addition to dealing with the provisions of law in India and UK, or theoretical concepts associated therewith, also frequently took anecdotal recourse to his own rich reserve of professional experiences in order to further elucidate a point. It can only be hoped, at the end of this lecture series, that students at NUJS have come alive to the variegated workings of the world of corporate law, where most of us might be striving to carve out a name for ourselves in the days to come.

Shekhar Sumit (Class of 2009)