About me

Read below my curriculum vitae until before I ended up as a whistle-blower after working for General Electric in India briefly in 2010

Contact details

seema.sapra@gmail.com

Twitter @SeemaSapraLaw

My Blogs

http://generalelectricfakeauthoritydocs.blogspot.in/ Fake Authority Docs for General Electric Company filed in Delhi High Court

http://geimpersonationfraud.blogspot.in/  General Electric substituted fake representative/ signatory in Indian corruption legal case

http://gecorruption.blogspot.in/  FCPA alert- General Electric paid bribes to Indian public officials using third party contractor - Aartech Consultants India Private Limited

http://gemarhowracorruption.blogspot.in/  The PwC & Vinod Sharma conflict of interest & GE corruption in Marhowra Project

http://gemarhowracorruptionpart2.blogspot.in/ Shakeel Ahmed, Indian Rail official corruptly vetted GE 2008 bid documents for Marhowra Project

http://gecorruptionpart2.blogspot.in/ General Electric corruptly obtained Indian Rail Marhowra Project bid docs before they were public

http://gecorruptionpart3.blogspot.in/ Wikileaks US Embassy cables on creation of Marhowra loco factory Project for General Electric

http://gecorruptionpart4.blogspot.in/ General Electric corruption & fraud to avoid mandatory disclosures in India tender

http://gecorruptionpart5.blogspot.in/ #FCPA Why is General Electric bidding for India electric loco tender which it does not manufacture

http://gewhistleblower.blogspot.in/ evidence of attempts to eliminate Seema Sapra, General Electric Company whistleblower in India

http://seemasapra.blogspot.com/   Seema Sapra - General Electric corruption whistle-blower: the Truth prevails

http://gemoneylaundering.blogspot.in/ Money laundering by General Electric using NDTV in India

http://solisorabjeealert.blogspot.in/     Seema Sapra's sexual harassment complaint against former Attorney General of India Soli J. Sorabjee

http://writpetitionrecordinwp1280of2012.blogspot.in/   -  Court Record in Seema Sapra's whistle-blower corruption case against General Electric Company

http://monteksinghahluwalia-alert.blogspot.com/    - Montek Singh Ahluwalia - an American spy and economic hit-man

http://sureshprabhu-alert.blogspot.in/ The Scams, Corruption, Conflict of Interest & Benami Companies of Suresh Prabhu

                                                 

Work Experience

Legal Counsel for GE Transportation India in Delhi (2010 – 5 months)

Consultant to Microsoft India on Innovation & IP law and policy - 2009-2010 in Delhi (approx. six months)

Visiting fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, 2008-2009, working on trade policy, climate change and energy policy  

Director – Trade & Policy, at Delhi office of law firm Amarchand Mangaldas, Suresh A. Shroff & Co, 2008. Worked on trade policy, competition policy, nuclear policy, investment policy, India’s comprehensive economic cooperation agreements, anti-dumping.   

Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC 2004-2005, worked on trade and investment policy and law

Assisted GE India General Counsel, Ruby Anand as off-counsel from approx. 1999 till 2001

Associate in the office of Soli J Sorabjee, Attorney General of India, 2000-2001 

Empaneled lawyer for the Government of India in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi in 1999-2001

Lawyer with the litigation law firm of M/s Karanjawala & Co. in New Delhi, 1995-2000

Extensive litigation experience in the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi, and various special tribunals.

Policy expertise

International Trade

Bilateral and regional trade agreements  

Investment policy, bilateral investment treaties  

Climate change and sustainable development

Energy efficiency and climate change

Innovation policy, technology transfer and intellectual property

Competition policy  

Teaching Experience

LLM tutor for the World Trade Law joint course at University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies (2007)

Contract law tutor for 1^st Year LLB at the University of Westminster, School of Law as a part-time visiting lecturer (2007)

Guest lectures for the LLM program at Kings College London and University of Leicester law school 

Education

PhD studies at Kings College London 2003-2007 (not completed)

Title of proposed thesis: The Place, Treatment, and Meaning of Development in the WTO

Research supervisor - Professor Piet Eeckhout, Kings College London

3 year research fellowship by the Centre for European Law, Kings College London

LLM in Public International Law with distinction at the University of Leicester, 2001-2003

British Chevening scholar

LLB from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi - Ist Division. 1995

Diploma in Environmental Law from the Centre for Environmental Law, WWF-India -1994-1995

B. A. Honors in English Literature from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi - 1992

Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic law, 2004-2005 based at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC

Internship with the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania 2002-2003

Publications

Article titled “Sustainable Development and the role of the Indian Supreme Court”, ASERI (Milan) publication, 2009 

Article titled “An Agenda for Teaching International Economic Law in Indian Law Schools”, Indian Journal of International Economic Law, 2009, National Law School, Bangalore

Article titled “The WTO System of Trade Governance: The Stale NGO Debate and the Appropriate Role for Non-state actors” in Oregon Review of International Law Journal, volume 11 issue 1, 2009

Chapter titled ‘Domestic Politics and the Search for a New Social Purpose of Governance for the WTO: A Proposal for a Declaration on Domestic Consultation’ in Debra Steger (ed.) Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009

Chapter titled ‘New Agendas for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Including an Agenda in Support of Reform’  in Colin B. Picker, Isabella Bunn & Douglas Arner, (ed.) INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW - THE STATE & FUTURE OF THE DISCIPLINE, Hart Publishing, 2008

‘Ideas of Embedded Liberalism and Current and Future Challenges for the WTO’,  in Ortino and Ripinsky, WTO Law and Process, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2007. pg 330 - 352

Development: Its Place, Treatment, and Meaning at the WTO / Seema Sapra (2006). In: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Vol. 100, pg 223-226

Papers / Conferences 

Presented paper titled “An Indian perspective on sustainable development: the role of the Indian higher judiciary” at panel discussion at ASERI, Milan in December 2008

Panelist for EDGE network panel on WTO Institutional Reform at the Inaugural conference of the Society for International Economic Law, Geneva, 15-17 July 2008

Presented paper titled “Developing Countries and Outreach to Non-State Actors in the WTO”, at an EDGE network project workshop on WTO institutional reform in March 2008 at Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario. 

Presented paper titled “The Case for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Possible Agendas Including an Agenda in Support of Reform”  at the Annual Conference of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law at Bretton Woods in November, 2006

Panelist at the sixth Annual WTO Conference hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in May 2006, on the topic “Doha Development Round: Current and Future Challenges”

Presented paper titled “Development - Its Place, Treatment and Meaning at the WTO” at the 100^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington D.C. 2006.

Presented paper titled “Special and Differential Treatment in international trade law” at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center in September 2005

Presented paper titled “Constructivism and Special and Differential Treatment in international trade law” at the 2005 conference of the International Law Association, British Branch held at Edinburgh in May 2005

Memberships

Bar Council of Delhi

Society of International Economic Law

Asian WTO Research Network