Chockalingam Raj Kumar is an Indian academic administrator currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of OP Jindal Global University[1] in Sonipat, Haryana, India, and the Dean of the Jindal Global Law School.
He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Previously, he has consulted United Nations University, Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme; and the International Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva, National Human Rights Commission of India.[2]
Kumar received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University of Oxford,[3] where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law degree; a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School where he obtained his Master of Laws degree.[4] He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, Chennai, India.[5]
He also was a research fellow at the NYU Law School.[4][3]