Interview with Dr. V P Tiwari,Associate Professor of Law,Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur (By By Akshita Mittal, Law Student, NLU Nagpur, Online Intern @LawOF
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name: Dr. V P Tiwari
Organization Name: Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur
Designation: Associate Professor of Law
Email id: tiwarivp@gmail.com
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
(By Akshita Mittal, 2nd Year Law Student at National Law University, Nagpur)
Well I prefer to introduce myself as a student of law and not as a teacher of a law, because I feel that I am a student first and a teacher later. About my academic, I did my LL. M. in Constitutional Law and Human Rights from Post Graduate Teaching Department of Law, University of Nagpur and Ph. D in the area of Medical Negligence and Consumer Protection from National Law University, Jodhpur. I started my Teaching career from National Law University, Jodhpur and have the experience of teaching in both Government and Private Law Schools. I was Principal at Integrated School of Law, Ghaziabad (affiliated to CCS University, Meerut) and Associate Professor of Law and Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi (Affiliated to GGSIP University). Before joining NLU, Nagpur; I was teaching at NLU, Assam, Guwahati.
The capacity of law to empower the weak inspired me to choose the legal profession and I am more than satisfied to be in this profession.
I studied both UG and PG in traditional Universities, but I am happy that I had teachers like Prof. (Dr.) Chaturbhuj Tiwari and Prof. (Dr.) SL Despande and UG and PG level respectively, who inspired to work hard and learn more and more because there is no end to knowledge. Indeed, I must attribute my all achievements to my teachers, who were great professionals and human beings as well.
There is no dearth of opportunities for a hard working teacher. In India, the field of empirical research is still virgin, which can be taken up by young teachers. This would be of great help in policy formulation besides self-growth. But I personally feel that a teacher should look for every opportunity to enhance the capacity and growth of his/her students and not his own.
The best thing in our job is that we get the opportunity to shape the future of our nation. A child is a father of a man. Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. If they are very well groomed, motivated, diligent, honest, kind and compassionate – the country shall grow in peace and prosperity – and a teacher plays a vital role in this formation and transformation.
Indeed, they help students learn the law in action. In moots, they get the opportunity to solve a hypothetical problem. In mooting they develop all the three skills of researching, writing and arguing – needed for a successful lawyer. Publications develop their critical thinking and in internships they get the opportunity to apply their theoretical learning of class room in to practical experiences. It is indeed a very important source of learning for the students because these all are the tools of self-learning, which is considered to be the best way of learning.
Nothing is easy in life. They are a number of challenges even for becoming a law teacher – getting basic qualification – LL M, NET, Ph D. But then most challenging task is that these days the quality of students which come in law school is very high. They come in law by choice, rather first choice and not by chance. They take lot of interest and are very well informed and updated in all most all areas. We teachers find ourselves deficient on many occasions. But then – that makes us work harder and makes us better.
The company of young and smiling students.
We were given so much of work and no option but to complete the given task. There was no time to think otherwise. Specially I always liked the job and hence never thought to give up the work, even if it was more. Moreover, even other professions too have plenty of work to do – say for example medical and engineering professionals are also very busy.
Keep smiling, never lose hope, believe in God, be helpful and work diligently.
There is no short cut to success and nothing is permanent – neither success – nor failure. One must not relax, neither after success nor after failure. And yes, we do everything for our happiness – so we must be happy in both these conditions and should also try to keep our nears and dears happy – especially parents.
If I have to measure the success of a person, I will find out as to how many people are smiling because of that person, how many people got inspired to work hard and become good citizens because of that person. I think, that should be the measurement of success and not the position you hold – because many a times one gets the position not because of his qualification and competence – but because of other things.
Social change and Social Reform, Empowerment of weak and downtrodden, vulnerable groups, should be the prime concern of all of us related to law.
They must be happy, they should know that they have competition with themselves and none other and they must be helpful, honest and hard working in life. They should also be God fearing.
Take the blessings of all. This bridges the gap between your efforts and success.
I feel, being able to breathe, see, stand and help others should also be considered to be successful. Hence, in my opinion, I have been successful since my childhood itself.
Why me? I am very small person. We should try to know ourselves first.
God bless them.
LawOF is doing a great work by informing and motivating young students. I wish them great success.
Life is not bed of roses.
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