Bimal N. Patel is a Professor of Public International Law and the current Director of the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. He was appointed by a High Level Committee headed by the then Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan, at the Supreme Court of India premises. The Government of India has also recently appointed him as a member of the 21st Law Commission of India along with Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, retired Judge of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India as its chairperson. Prof. Patel is a former International civil servant, scholar and academician of international law and diplomacy.An acclaimed international law jurist, he has extensively studied, researched, commented and published works on the administrative, procedural and substantive jurisprudence of the Internation