Aditya Singh, a final year student at NALSAR University of Law, has been awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for study of law in the United Kingdom. The Commonwealth Scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarship schemes for international study. It covers the total cost of attendance including the tuition and college fees, personal maintenance allowance, travel grant and an initial arrival allowance.

Aditya has also received offers of admission from the University of Cambridge and the Yale Law School, where he has secured full funding.

Aditya is interested in studying the norms, structures and practices of the legal profession and writes on issues around legal education, judicial reform and disability law. Earlier, he has been a Student Empirical Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession and a Visiting Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School. He is the Student Founder and Managing Editor of the Indian Journal of Law and Economics published by NALSAR and has written papers for leading journals including the Indian Journal of Justice Studies, the Asian Journal of Public Policy, the Economic & Political Weekly, the Supreme Court Journal as well as articles for The Indian Express and The Financial Express. Last year, he was a recipient of Hague Academy of International Law Scholarship for the Public International Law summer programme.

He has represented NALSAR in various national and international events including the International rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition, Washington D.C. (2011), the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna (2010), and the International Criminal Court Trial Competition, The Hague (2009).

The entire NALSAR Family is proud of the achievement and hope for a bright future for him. Such an achievement by our student reflects and reinforces our commitment to achieving higher levels of excellence in legal education and research at NALSAR.