Winter School and Online Research Internship Program, 2021
Jan. 22, 2021 • Architi Batra
About Niti Manthan
Niti Manthan is an initiative to motivate and inspire young students on various socio-legal themes and to guide them traverses the righteous path throughout the endeavour of their personal and professional lives. By having a direct interaction and by the exchange of views with experienced legal minds and researching, conceptualizing and correspondingly reporting according to the selected avenue given below.
The think tank, Niti Manthan currently functions in the areas of Research, Legal blogs, Internships, E-classes, Young Leaders for Legal Literacy Program, Research Centers on Medical and Health Law, Environmental Law, International Criminal Law & Psycho-Legal Studies, Workshops, Certificate Courses and Lecture Series.
About Winter Research Program
Over the past 2 years, Niti Manthan has successfully conducted Summer Research Programs with over 1000 students from all across the country. In 2020, online Internship programs were executed because the learning process had to continue. The experience of the interns can be viewed in this video:
This shall be a non-paid research experience, with an aim to facilitate students with quality access and research skills. The project leads, who are mostly practising advocates, doctors, psychologists and scholars have engaged themselves for the project on a pro-bono basis.
Time Period: One month (Can be extended depending on the field of internship)
Mode of Work: Work from Home-Virtual Internship
Last Date of Application: 7th February 2021
Internship Start Date (Tentative): 15th February 2021
Perks: Apart from Certificate of internship & publication opportunity, the interns would have a hands-on experience on practical nuances of the law, working with team members from different parts of the country and exposure of empirical research.
The research projects being undertaken during Niti Manthan Winter School and Online Internship Program, 2021 would be under the following heads:
Sushruta: Public Health Federalism [Medico Legal]
Sushruta, Centre for Medical and Health Law Ethic Studies centre is a unique effort to collaborate with the complexities of legal rulings and medical issues. The aim is for young upcoming professionals to have open conversations towards effective policymaking in the healthcare sector. This is the second research project that Sushruta is undertaking.
Public Health Federalism is the interesting amalgamation of studying constitutional law concepts and applying them to the Public Health sector of this country. The main aim is to study the centre-state relation and the distribution of yearly budget to the health sector which in a domino effect becomes an issue of Economics & Finance, Human Rights & Public-Private partnerships. The project shall trace the history of the issue, a comparative analysis of the 21st Century and study the economic angle to the subject.
Eligibility Criteria: A regular student or practising professional in the field of Law, Medicine, Public Health, Economics/Finance/Commerce.
Selection Criteria: Submit your CV along with a Statement of Purpose (Max. 300 words submitted in the same document as the CV) for the first round of shortlisting followed by a group discussion interview round.
Refuge during IHL Violations
It is an age-old saying that in the battle of elephants, it is the grass which receives the maximum damage, similarly in a situation of armed conflict; it is the civilians who tend to suffer the most in terms of physical, psychological and emotional terms. For the very reason, many people have the tendency or are forced to leave their homeland which results in regional and cross-border migrations. Taking refuge is one distinct aspect and giving a refuge is another, in order to balance the same during the persistence of an IHL situation is a significant question.
The research theme for Niti Manthan's IHL Colloquium 2.0 is Refuge in the times of Armed Conflict: A Human Right's Perspective which will deal with significant issues like the aspect of Host State Security, Condition of Refugee Camps, Conflict of Rights of Citizens and Refugees, Ethnic Conflicts, etc.
Eligibility Criteria: A regular student or practising professional in the field of Law, Human Rights, International Law.
Selection Criteria: For the first round of shortlisting, CV’s will be considered. It will be followed by a group discussion interview round.
Legal History and Criminal trials
To analyse the historical Criminal trials in India, in order to understand the functioning of the criminal justice administration system during the colonial era. Judgments from 1860 until 1947 shall be perused in the study. It will be an interesting amalgamation of history, politics and law--an area not much explored in academia.
Eligibility Criteria: A regular student or practising professional of law, history, sociology, political science.
Selection Criteria: For the first round of shortlisting, CV’s will be considered. It will be followed by a group discussion interview round.
IT laws, e-fraud and Cyber-Crimes
In the first phase of summer school 2020, this project focused on familiarisation of the Cyber-Crimes and identification of the investigation procedure pertaining to cyber-crimes. The team prepared a handbook on the IT Laws and redressal mechanism. In the second phase, the focus shifted to IT Laws related to gambling and cyber terrorism. This internship phase will take this project forward in a deeper understanding of the subject.
Eligibility Criteria: A regular student or practising professional of law, IT or related fields.
Selection Criteria: For the first round of shortlisting, CV’s will be considered. It will be followed by a group discussion interview round.
Frontend Developer/Coder
In this domain, the intern would be required to create modern, aesthetic and Responsive UI and pages which will be integrated with the Niti Manthan Website.
Eligibility: Student/professional who is comfortable working with normal front end tech stacks i.e. JS, CSS, HTML. Basic knowledge of Django would be appreciated.
Perks: A Certificate and LOR would be provided after the successful completion of the internship. Learning from the industry experts would be an additional perk.
Application process: Along with your CV, in the same document attach a URL link of your sample work.
Procedure to Apply: Visit the registration page here and fill the application form. The shortlisted candidates would receive a call for interviews.
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