Since October 2022, the Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) has been participating in a three-year research project titled Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation (PACT).
The project is led by Prof. Rochana Bajpai (SOAS) as the principal investigator, with Vineeth Krishna, CLPR’s Senior Research Associate and Senior Editor of Constitutionofindia.net, serving as a co-investigator. Other co-investigators include Dr. Nicholas Cole (University of Oxford), Dr. Udit Bhatia (University of York), and Prof. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School of India University).
The PACT project aims to develop an advanced digital platform and produce cutting-edge scholarship on the making of the Indian Constitution (1950).
CLPR’s key role in the project is to deliver high-quality public education workshops for students and educators. Over the years, CLPR has organized numerous constitutional education initiatives for a wide range of audiences. Through its collaboration with the PACT project, CLPR has expanded both the number of workshops and the diversity of its audience, now reaching beyond law students to include journalism and design students as well. The scholarly engagement in the project has significantly improved the quality of the workshop materials, enhancing CLPR’s constitutional public engagement work, which has been ongoing for nearly a decade.
Some of these workshops include:
- Law Clerks at the Supreme Court of India – June 29
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai – July 27
- St. John’s Medical College – July 29
- BML Munjal Law School – October 24
- National Law University, Delhi – October 23
- College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Dayananda Sagar University – November 22
- Manipal Shrishti School of Design – December 3
The PACT collaboration has also enabled CLPR to organize and participate in high-quality academic events. In August 2024, CLPR, in collaboration with NLSIU, organized the PACT NLS Conference, one of the most comprehensive conferences in the field of Indian constitutional studies.
In 2025, CLPR’s collaboration with PACT will further expand, with additional workshops, including specialized sessions for educators on teaching Indian constitutional studies.