The Asian Institute of Society, Law and Economics (AISLE) was founded in July 2000 and is registered under the Societies Registration Act of India 1860. The Institute is situated in foothills of the Himalayas, nestled in the beautiful city of Shimla, India.
The Institute works in various areas of research and education, with special focus on the confluence between Society, Law and Economics. Currently, the Institute is working on initiatives related to transparency in governance. Some of the focus themes are:
Professor (Dr.) Seshan Radha has held various positions in teaching and research with more than three decades in academia.
She has a doctorate in the inter-disciplinary study of Law and Economics and was a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, Yale University, USA.
She was also a fellow in the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Her past positions include:
Professor (Dr.) Amar Singh has been a Fellow Scholar at the Academy of Sciences, USSR Moscow. He is a Professor of Business Laws with four decades of teaching and research experience. He was the Chairman of the Department of laws and Dean, Faculty of Law at Himachal Pradesh University for over two decades.
His past positions include:
Centre for Transparent Governance (CTG): Governments and public authorities exercise tremendous contractual capacity with reference to public resources coupled with constitutional and statutory personal immunity for contractual liability. They also indulge in inefficient contracts transacted by the public offices, enabling people in power to generate huge scandals one after the other and siphoning off public economic resources as kickbacks. This demands transparency in the governance of public resources. The Centre collects data on it and conducts research for initiating Public Interest Litigation. The provisions of the Request for Information Act, 2005 are used to collect data on corruption in the public sector.
Centre for People Friendly Police Training (CPFPT): The police by and large, as a force still suffers from the feudal and colonial hangover as regards their public role. The commoners (Aam Aadmi) still perceives police stations as centres of extortion and remain Aam Aadmi unfriendly. Essential change is required in general police behaviour to alter the perception of the Aam Aadmi. Empathy is to replace arrogance and lathi-danda as a wielding force. The Centre plans to work on conducting training programmes for the police force, by organizing people–police meetings.
Centre For Solid Waste Management (CSWM): Consumerism and production have reached high proportions in relation to resource use and solid waste management. Packaging Industry and the use of plastic material have increased the density of solid waste as a bio non-degradable waste on earth without adequate knowledge and means of managing the same. Among other issues of environment management, the Centre will conduct workshops/trainings/conferences and the like along with taking up projects of any body, national or international on Solid Waste Management. The Municipal Corporations of the respective States are faced with this challenge and concerted and co-ordinated efforts of bringing the government, institutions and the individuals together are to be undertaken for a ‘Swachh Bharat Andolan’.
Centre for Green Shimla Project (CGSP): The Green Lung of Shimla is increasingly destroyed with development initiatives. The collusion of the players has resulted in enormous concrete structures coming up in the city and this may lead to natural disasters like earthquakes, if this type of development goes unchecked. The Director has already filed a case in the H.P High Court on the issue of a public toilet constructed in the Green Area assigned under the Shimla Housing Development Authority. The Institute upon its own initiative has also taken up the work of studying the displacement and rehabilitation relating to Kiratpur-Mandi Highway in the District Bilaspur of Himachal Pradesh.
Centre for IPRs in Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (CIPRTKF): Traditional knowledge (and some extent folklore) and its relationship to the formal IPR system has emerged as a mainstream issue in international negotiations on the conservation of Biological Diversity, International Trade and Intellectual Property Rights including the TRIPS.
Agreements in the past few years, including high-level discussions on the subject taking place at the WTO, Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have established an Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. Governments of developing countries tend to take similar views in these international forums. NGOs for several years have argued that Traditional Knowledge and Folklore need to be protected legally, and have criticized the formal IPR system for legitimizing its misappropriation. The question that many seek answers to is what should be done?
Centre For Legal Aid (CLA): The Institute intends to organise a panel of legal professionals to undertake the cause of children, and women in need at the sub-division, district and state levels to provide free legal aid and advice.
Centre For Environment Impact Studies (CEIS): Environment Impact ranges from solid waste management, unauthorised felling of trees, air and water pollution, unauthorised construction and the like to that of protecting flora and fauna and climate change and its effect on agriculture and human health. The Institute intends to take up such issues for academic pursuits as well as activism.
Centre For Counselling Teens (CCT): The Centre plans to organise and put in contact counsellors with the parents of students to addresses their usual academic and psychological problems in total confidentiality
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