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National Law School of India University
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) came into existence through a notification under the National Law School of India University Act, 1986. It signified a culmination of the efforts of the judiciary, the Bar Council of India, the Karnataka Bar Council, the Bangalore University and the Government of Karnataka to reform legal education and to establish a Centre of Excellence for legal education and research in India. With the Chief Justice of India as the Chancellor of the University and the Chairman of the Bar Council of India serving as the Chairman of the General Council, NLSIU possesses a stature and prestige which is unparalleled in the history of legal education in India.
The Centre
The National Law School Centre for Competition and Regulation (CCR) has been instituted with the intention of providing research, training and consultation in the area of competition law and economic regulation. It aims to bring together various stakeholders such as regulators, academicians, practitioners and industry to provide for better understanding and critical thinking of current law and policy. Efficient and timely law, policy and its enforcement is a crucial driver of economic growth and the centre is driven by these concerns.
Director
Dr. (Prof) T.S. Somashekar
PhD (Institute for Social and Economic Change, 2010)
Areas of interest: Law and Economics, Industrial Organisation, Business Strategy, Public Policy Analysis, World Trade Organisation.
Dr. Somashekhar has over 20 years of experience in teaching students of economics and law. Spanning this career he has been an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2006, an advisor to the Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Government of Karnataka (2008)- to help formulate the industrial policy, a two time United States International Visitors Leadership Program participant (2009-10), a Global Visiting Professor at the Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University (Dallas) for five years (2011 -2014) and an Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair Professor at Sciences Po (Paris) in 2011. He has produced research reports on competition law issues in the ecommerce and high technology sectors.
He is currently a member of the advisory board for the European Doctorate in Law and Economics.
Student Research Associates
Arushi Yadav
Aparna Singh
Jigyasa
Pranav Mittal
Shashwat Shankar
Vikram Raj Nanda
Vrinda Sharma
Aprameya Sheshadri
Aslesha Ajitsaria
Khushi Gupta
Rachana Prakash
Srijan Pandey
Vipul Khicha
Arnav Maheshwari
Gayatri Sunil Nair
Piyush Gupta
Sharad Kumar
Sumukhi Subramanian
Viraj Thakur
Advisory Board
Prof. Aditya Bhattacharjea
Professor Aditya Bhattacharjea is an Indian economist specialising in industrial organization, international trade, labour economics, and competition law.
He completed his undergraduate studies at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and pursued his postgraduate education at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He later undertook advanced studies at the University of Cambridge and Boston University, where he trained in microeconomic theory and international trade, particularly in contexts of imperfect competition.
He had long career as professor of Economics at Delhi School of Economics. There he also served as the Head of the Dept. of Economics and Executive Director of the Centre for Development Economies. He was a visiting professor at Duke University. He was also member of Government of India Expert Group on Trade and Competition Policy, Competition Law Review Committee and WTO training programmes. He is currently an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute for Studies in industrial Development.
Ms. Shruti Aji Murali
Shruti Aji Murali is a competition lawyer with experience across leading Indian antitrust practices, where she worked on enforcement, litigation, and merger control, including end-to-end handling of multi-jurisdictional transactions. She is currently Knowledge Management Counsel at Axiom5 Law Chambers, where she focuses on capability building, institutional strategy, and supporting legal practice through structured knowledge systems, with a particular emphasis on digital markets and the intersection of competition law and privacy regulation.
She has contributed to policy and regulatory processes, including work on the draft Digital Competition Bill, stakeholder submissions to the Competition Commission of India on amendments to the Competition Act, 2002, and inputs on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, on behalf of the American Bar Association.
She has also served as Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Art & Design from Srishti College of Art, Design and Technology. She additionally serves as Young Lawyer Representative to the Diversity.Advanced Committee of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section.
Mr. Shashank Sharma
Shashank Sharma is a competition law and policy specialist currently serving as Policy Lead at Axiom5 Law Chambers. He is a competition law specialist with over a decade of experience, with a particular focus on antitrust and competition economics.
He has contributed to competition policy through his involvement in the Competition Law Review Committee, including the Working Group on Big Data and New Age Markets, advised a sovereign state on reforming its competition law regime, and worked with international consulting groups on digital market regulation in the European Union. He also conducts training programmes for public and private institutions. Alongside, he is also a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
He holds a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University (2013), an LL.M. and M.A. with distinction from the European Masters in Law and Economics (2017), and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. under the European Doctorate in Law and Economics, with research on competition law enforcement in multi-sided platforms, focusing on damages and remedies.
Dr. Shubha Ghosh
Dr. Shubha Ghosh is the Crandall Melvin Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, where he also directs the Technology Commercialization Curricular Program. He holds a J.D. from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, and a B.A., cum laude, from Amherst College. Before joining Syracuse in 2016, he served as a chaired, tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and co-directed its interdisciplinary Innovation cluster. At Syracuse, he oversees initiatives including the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute and the Innovation Law Center, which together provide students with rigorous training and clinical experience in intellectual property, business law, and technology commercialization.
Professor Ghosh’s work bridges academia, policy, and practice. Through the New York State Science and Technology Law Center, he advises entrepreneurs, research institutions, and policymakers on innovation, economic development, and intellectual property strategy, including nonprofit–private sector collaborations and technology licensing. A prolific scholar, his research spans intellectual property, antitrust, competition policy, and technology transfer, with a focus on how legal frameworks shape markets and innovation. His book Exhausting Intellectual Property Rights (Cambridge, 2018) has been widely recognized and featured in international academic and policy forums, and he regularly contributes to legal blogs, webcasts, and public discussions on law and technology.