CJI Chandrachud to be conferred with ‘Award for Global Leadership’: The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession has decided to confer Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud with the ‘Center on the Legal Profession Award for Global Leadership’.
Reason: In recognition of his lifetime service to the legal profession in the country and around the world.
The award will be presented to him at an online event on January 11, 2023.
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The release has quoted David Wilkins, CLP faculty director, saying: “I know how much India, and indeed the world, need Justice Chandrachud’s leadership, particularly on issues such as mental health and the well-being of lawyers, which he spoke about so eloquently at our conference in 2017 – long before the global pandemic placed this issue in the forefront of the profession’s consciousness.”
He took over as the 50th CJI on November 9, 2022. He obtained an LL.M. degree and a Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (SJD) from the Harvard Law School.
