Year: 1989
Type: article
Abstract: Nagendra Singh, who died in The Hague on December 11, 1988, was among the last of the great generation of Indian jurists whose academic and professional legal formation was acquired under the British raj in the preindependence period (in Cambridge and Dublin as well as in Indian universities).On the announcement, at war's end in 1945, by Prime Minister Attlee of the British Labour Government's decision to give up sovereignty over India, Dr. Singh became a member of the Constituent Assembly charged with the elaboration of the new postdecolonization, republican, federal Constitution of India.He was to continue these constitutional law interests throughout his professional legal life, which included, among other offices, Secretary to the President of India from 1966 to 1972.Dr. Singh was elected to the International Court of Justice in 1973, serving continuously as a judge until his death in December 1988, and holding the office of President of the Court for the 3-year term from early 1985 until early 1988.
Author: Edward Mcwhinney
Institution: Simon Fraser University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2946511807