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A reputed legal academic, known for his generally helpful attitude, Prof Pithawalla currently serves as the chairman of the Government Law College Placement Committee. He is known to take up causes, including speaking out about the infrastructural problems that plague the college, which is widely
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Prof. Pithawalla is also the author and editor of a series of textbooks, widely used by Indian law students for law exam preparation. Apart from editing several student-oriented law books, he has authored a series of books on Company Law, Environment Law, Administrative Law, Land Laws, and The
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Prof. Pithawalla's students include Supreme Court and High Court Judges (including two Chief Justices of India), Attorneys-General, Advocates-General, Ministers, and advocates from all over the world. Initially a Professor of
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believed to have contributed to the "running internship" style of education at GLC, wherein students prefer to intern with firms or as paralegals for their legal education, rather than attend lectures.
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to draft a contract law for their country. In the course of his visit to Bhutan, his draft was discussed at a workshop chaired by the
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Apart from teaching at Government Law College for 52 long years, Prof. Pithawalla had been invited to lecture at the
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