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Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai serves as the Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab. Equipped with more than thirty years of professional experience as an author, researcher, teacher and administrator, he has been appointed as Convenor, Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, which is tasked with spearheading historic reforms in Criminal Laws in India. He is the Member of the Advisory Board for Development of Legal Education & Legal Profession of the Bar Council of India; Member of the Standing Committee of the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India; Member, General Council, Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam and Member, Punjab State Legal Services Authority. He has been nominated by the Association of Indian Universities as Member of the Board of Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI). He has previously served as the Registrar, National Law University Delhi. He has also served as Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice (Law); Chair Professor at K.L Arora Chair in Criminal Law; as well as the Chairperson of the Centre for Criminology & Victimology at National Law University Delhi. Prior to the same, he has served as Professor (Law & Development) & Chairperson at the Centre for Criminal Justice Administration, National Law Institute University, Bhopal.
He has also held positions at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, (1989) Bureau of Police Research & Development, (1989- 1995), Punjab Police Academy, Punjab and Department of Criminology & Forensic Science, University of Saugar, M.P. As many as 12 students have already completed doctoral dissertations (Ph. D.) under his guidance. In addition to a Master’s specialisation in Criminology & Criminal Justice, he holds a doctorate in victimology and a post-doctorate in criminal justice from Leicester University, UK as Commonwealth Fellow at the Department of Criminology, Leicester University, U.K.
Prof. Bajpai has authored twenty one books/monographs; more than fifty papers; and, more than fifty op-eds in the leading dailies like Indian Express, the Hindu, the Tribune and thirteen project reports etc. His books (2011) 'Witness & Criminal Justice Systems', 'On Cyber Crime & Cyber Law', 'Situational Crime Prevention & Crime Reduction' and ‘Victimological Narratives on Gender Violence’ (2014), Victim Justice- A Paradigm Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System" and "Judgments that Shaped the India Jurisprudence" published (2017) by Thomson & Reuters. His most recent books (2019) 'Living on the Edge' and 'Juvenile Justice' (Bloomsbury) have been well-received. He is the editor of two prestigious international journals: Journal of Victimology & Victim Justice (published by Sage Publications) and Indian Journal of Criminology, a publication of Indian Society of Criminology since 1972.