Fali S Nariman

Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Fali Sam Nariman is an eminent constitutional jurist. He practiced in the Bombay High Court for 22 years and was appointed a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India in 1961, a position he retains.

He was President of the Bar Association of India from 1991 to 2010. Since 1999, he also has served a full term as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. He has served on various committees, including the Rules Committee, the Ethics Committee, the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Standing Committee of Parliament on External Affairs. He observed that having an appointed rather than an elective office allows him more freedom to speak his mind on the issues since he has no constituency to offend.

He is an internationally acclaimed jurist on international arbitration and has distinguished himself as an advocate for the protection of minority rights and a proponent of human rights. He is one of India’s most distinguished constitutional lawyers and he has argued several leading cases. He remained the Additional Solicitor General of India from May 1972 to June 1975.