Kartik Seth Speaks at LAWASIA 2023 | Panels with Justice Nagarathna and Supreme Court Judges at Premier International Legal Forum

Kartik Seth Speaks at LAWASIA 2023 | Sharing the Panel with Justice Nagarathna, India’s First Future Woman Chief Justice

There are professional experiences that leave a permanent mark — not merely because of the platform they offer, but because of the company they place you in and the conversations they generate. For Advocate Kartik Seth, speaking at the LAWASIA 2023 Conference as an invited panelist was precisely such an experience. Sharing the panel with Justice B.V. Nagarathna of the Supreme Court of India — widely recognised as India’s first future woman Chief Justice — alongside other extraordinarily distinguished legal luminaries from across the world, Kartik Seth represented India’s emerging generation of legal practitioners at one of the most prestigious international legal forums in the Asia-Pacific region.

LAWASIA: A Global Stage for Legal Excellence

LAWASIA — the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific — is one of the most respected international legal organisations in the world, bringing together bar associations, law societies, legal practitioners, and judges from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Its annual conference is a gathering of the finest legal minds across jurisdictions — a forum where ideas about law, justice, governance, and the future of the legal profession are exchanged at the highest level of intellectual rigour and professional distinction. Being invited to speak at LAWASIA is not merely an honour — it is a recognition of expertise, standing, and the capacity to contribute meaningfully to conversations that shape the direction of law across the region.

A Panel of Extraordinary Distinction

The panel on which Kartik Seth appeared was one of remarkable composition. Sharing the stage with Justice B.V. Nagarathna — a sitting Supreme Court judge whose place in history as India’s first future woman Chief Justice makes her one of the most significant judicial figures of this era — and interacting with Hon’ble Supreme Court judges and legal luminaries from across the world placed Kartik Seth in a setting of extraordinary professional and intellectual elevation. In his own words, the experience of speaking to and interacting with such a distinguished gathering was “extremely enriching” — a characterisation that understates, if anything, what it means to hold one’s own in such company.

Gratitude to Shyam Divan and LAWASIA

Kartik Seth has expressed sincere gratitude to LAWASIA for the invitation and specifically to Senior Advocate Shyam Divan — one of India’s most eminent constitutional lawyers and a mentor figure of considerable significance — for facilitating this remarkable opportunity. That it was Shyam Divan who extended this invitation adds a personal and professional dimension to the occasion that makes it all the more meaningful. The relationship between a senior and a younger member of the Bar, built on trust and mutual respect, is one of the most important in legal professional life — and this invitation is a powerful expression of that relationship.

What This Appearance Reflects About Kartik Seth’s Practice and Profile

Kartik Seth’s appearance at LAWASIA 2023 is the international dimension of a public profile that has been steadily and purposefully built across multiple platforms — from India Energy Week 2026 to The Print, from Legally Speaking to the GNLU-GAIL Conference, from hosting the Indian Express dialogue on governance to being featured in Leading Questions on energy law. Each of these engagements reflects the same underlying truth: that Kartik Seth is a legal practitioner who thinks and operates beyond the boundaries of any single case or courtroom — one who engages with the law as a living, evolving institution that demands not just advocacy but intellectual leadership. His appearance at LAWASIA 2023 takes that engagement to the international stage — and announces, to a global audience of legal professionals, the presence of a voice worth listening to.