Sentencing Jurisprudence

Prof. Dr. A. Lakshminath is a widely respected academic and educationist in law with more than fifty years of teaching, research and administrative experience. His contributions to the fields of constitutional law, jurisprudence and human rights have been widely recognized. Prof. Lakshminath was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Massachusetts, USA; Guest Faculty at the Fort Valley State University, USA; Visiting Professor, Banaras Hindu University; and Fellow of Salzburg Seminar, Austria. Prof. Lakshminath has authored or co-authored 13 books and more than 160 articles in journals of national and international repute. He has edited 10 law journals and has been actively engaged in teaching and research at the graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral levels. In recognition of his contributions to research, he was bestowed with the Best Researcher Award by the Andhra University in 1995–96. Prof. Lakshminath received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Educators for World Peace, Alabama, USA, in 2007 and the Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Award for 2008. He was conferred the Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon Best Law Teacher Award 2012 for SAARC countries for his long and distinguished services to the legal education and legal profession.