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The Singhvi Trinity Scholarship
The Singhvi Fund was established in 2017 by Dr Abhishek Singhvi (1979), in memory of his late father, Mr Laxmi Mall Singhvi. The Singhvi Trinity Scholarship, which provides financial assistance to a resident of India to undertake the LLM at the University of Cambridge, aims to provide an international experience and a world-class education to Indian students.
“It is important for Indian students to get exposed to international terrains, and world-class education so that they can transform themselves into global leaders, who can be flag-bearers of India in creating history not only for our nation, but for the world around us. The ‘Singhvi Trinity Scholarship’ has been conceptualised with one single objective of providing international exposure and world-class education to Indian students. I truly hope that this scholarship will facilitate the aspirations of Indian students in pursuing their dreams of accessing global education.” – Dr Abhishek Singhvi (1979)
Awardees
I am honoured and deeply grateful to have received the Singhvi-Trinity Scholarship to read for the LLM at the University of Cambridge.
I owe this scholarship in large part to the generous guidance and encouragement of my professors and mentors. I am especially grateful to Prof. (Dr.) Aparna Chandra, whose classes led me to explore constitutional law in depth, and from whose teaching, research, and writing I have learnt immensely over the last five years; Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, who showed me the enduring importance of precision in legal argument; and Prof. Kunal Ambasta, whose classes and conversations always left me curious and fascinated.
I am also extremely grateful to Dr. Gautam Bhatia, who kept his blog open to my ideas and gave me sharp and thoughtful inputs on each article I wrote; Advocate Shivam Singh and Senior Advocate Karuna Nundy, who regularly invited me to contribute to their important cases; and Mr. Meyyappan Nagappan, who introduced me to the rigour and pace of high-stakes legal work.
Waleed Nazir Latoo grew up in Kashmir and graduated from National Law University, Delhi (NLU-D).
‘It really has taken a village for me to come here and be able to study here. I’m incredibly grateful to Dr Abhishek Singh, who funds the scholarship and thankful for the funding and the support at Trinity College.’
None of this would have been possible without the generous support of this Scholarship. The Scholarship did more than cover my fees and living expenses – it gave me the peace of mind to fully devote myself to my studies and contribute meaningfully to the academic community. It allowed me to have the ‘full Cambridge experience’ by helping me maximise the value I could derive from the Cambridge ecosystem.
Jai joined Trinity from the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). He completed his Undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, after which he joined JGLS for the three-year LLB programme. The Trinity Singhvi Scholarship has enabled him to pursue a Masters Degree Programme in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge.
“I completed my qualifying law degree by earning a First Division with Distinction in BA LLB (Hons) at the University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Being the youngest scholar to have had his work published by the University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal and as the first person in my Punjabi family to get professional education at the university level, I take academia’s immense emancipative potential for those at the fringes of access to justice quite seriously. This motivated my choice of papers in the LLM (International Human Rights Law; Jurisprudence; Legislation; and Criminal Justice & Human Rights) and even inspired me to head the Cambridge Pro Bono Project’s World Bank research on female genital mutilation and gender-based violence. As a part of my work on the project, my colleague and I head a team of ten researchers with the aim of producing actionable recommendations for Gambia’s legislation on those issues.
The Singhvi Trinity Scholarship opened doors for me that I once believed would remain shut forever. For that and much more, I am eternally grateful to Trinity College and Dr Singhvi.” – Jaideep Singh Lalli (2022)
Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi (1979)
Dr Singhvi is an eminent jurist, politician, visible media personality, well-known columnist, author, thinker, and commentator. He is a Member of Parliament (third-term), the senior most National Spokesperson of the Congress Party and was the youngest designated Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India (at age 34). He was the youngest Additional Solicitor General of India at the young age of 37 and a former elected Vice President of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
Additionally, Dr Singhvi was also the former Vice Chairman of the Congress’ Media Department, and the former Chairman of the All India Congress Committee, Human Rights Department, and the Parliamentary Committee on Law, Justice, Personnel & Grievances. He has been a member of the Indian Supreme Court, where he created and administered bilateral legal forums, including the Indo-British, Indo-US, Indo-Canadian and Indo-Israel forums.
After obtaining his BA (Economics) degree from St Stephen’s College, New Delhi, Dr Singhvi went on to complete his MA and PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK and Harvard University, USA, respectively.
He has taught at St John’s College, Cambridge, and has joined a brief summer programme at Harvard University as well. He has delivered lectures to student/faculty groups and general audiences at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Boston, MIT and George Washington universities, as well as NGOs and think-tanks, and has addressed several international conferences, including those at Paris and Pakistan. He was a visiting Trumbull Lecturer at Yale University, USA, in 2011 and is currently an Honorary Adjunct Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University.
Trinity College & CPL Lecture: Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, 28 October 2024
Trinity College and the Cambridge Centre for Public Law were delighted to host a lecture by Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, entitled ‘India 2047: Law and Politics in the World’s Largest Democracy’.
News
- Jindal Global University’s 1st Singhvi-Trinity Cambridge scholarship awarded to Jai Chander Brunner (July 2023)
- “Independence Of Judiciary Is Essential For Democracy” Justice P.S. Narasimha At Singhvi-Trinity-Cambridge Scholarship Award (July 2023)
- Singhvi Trinity Scholarship reshaped for Indian students (August 2020)