Legal Committee of SCOPE

1.	Dr. Kulwant Singh	Assoc. Professor of Law, Jammu Univ., Jammu	Assoc. Professor of Law at Jammu University. One of the few law professors in India to specialize in corruption for PhD.
2.	Dr. T.N. Shalla	Retired Law Professor, Jammu Univ, Jammu	The founder President of SCOPE. Formerly Reader, Department of Law, University of Jammu. Has special interest in Consumer & Environmental Laws. Currently Consultant to different NGOs on educational matters.
3.	Mujtaba Hussain	Advocate, Independent, Delhi	Litigation attorney in Delhi, former Law Officer on the United Nations Compensation Committee in Geneva.
4.	Wajahat Habibullah (from 9/05 onwards)	IAS Officer, India	Former professor of history, IAS Officer in the Government of India for 25 years, served as one of Jammu & Kashmir’s top civil servants (Divisional Commissioner) for several years. 2003-2004 Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace. Author of several texts on development and reform.
5.	Patrick Meagher	Governance Specialist, Maryland, USA	Director of the Governance at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland, affiliated with USAID and World Bank. Over 20 years of experience in governance and reform issues in Africa, Asia, and South America.
6.	Nagarajan Vittal	Ex-Central Vigilance Commissioner of India	IAS Officer since 1960, and former Central Vigilance Commissioner of India, responsible for investigating corruption with the Central Government and monitoring the activities of the State Vigilance Organisations.
7.	Dr. Vijay K. Sazawal	S. Asian Affairs Specialist, Washington DC	Analyst and specialist in Indo-Pakistan relations and the Jammu & Kashmir political and economic situation.
8.	Dr. S. Murlidhar:	Supreme Court Advocate, Delhi	Supreme Court Advocate in Delhi since 1987. Specialist in human rights cases. Involved in the Bhopal Union Carbide Tragedy litigation, the Best Bakery Case (2001Communal Riots in Gujarat), and the Sardar Sarovar dam case. Also a part-time member of the Law Commission of India.
9.	Julio F. Ribeiro	IPS (Retired)	Former DGP Punjab, former Mumbai Police Commissioner, campaigner against government corruption.
10.	Paul La Porte	Medical Res., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago	Medical researcher at the University of Chicago, USA. Specialist in arsenic carcinogenesis, coordinator for NIH-supported human cancer research in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. Interest in good governance work.
11.	Amjad Afridi	Advocate, Independent, Jammu and Chicago	Involved in the social sector since over a decade. Special interest in Consumer, Environmental and Cooperative Law and Cooperatives as a medium for poverty alleviation.
12.	Prof. Iqbal Ishar	Attorney, Retired Law Professor, New York	Former head of the International Law Program at the NYU School of Law, now law partner at International Legal and Trade Consultants in Manhattan.