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Prof. (Dr.) Dipika Jain is the Executive Dean and Professor of Law at Jindal 91视频 Law School (JGLS), India, and is the chairperson of the School Doctoral Committee (SDC) of JGLS. She has served JGLS as a founding faculty since 2009, and  has played a pivotal role in establishing JGLS. Her academic journey includes a B.A. in Political Science (Hons) from Lady Shri Ram College, an LL.B. from Delhi University and she received the Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellowship Award in Health Law & Policy, 2006 to pursue a Master’s Degree at Dalhousie University, Canada. She earned an LL.M from Harvard Law School (2009) and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Frankfurt (2024) under Prof. Günter Frankenberg, focusing on critical constitutionalism and graduating with a distinction Summa Cum Laude. An internationally recognized scholar, she has been a visiting faculty member at the Transnational Law Institute at King’s College London (2017–2021) and a visiting scholar at institutions such as the University of Oxford, the University of Melbourne, and the Max Planck Institute. Her scholarly interests encompass law and political economy, Judicial politics, law and social movement, critical constitutionalism, feminist legal theory, queer theory, minor jurisprudence, reproductive justice, public health law and critical pedagogies. She is the founding director of the Centre for Justice, Law, and Society (CJLS), which engages in groundbreaking work at the intersection of law and marginalization. At JGLS, she is the recipient of several teaching excellence and research excellence awards since 2009. Further details about her research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Albeena Shakil is a Professor of English Studies at JGLS and a member of its Academic Review Board of JGLS. She has served JGLS since 2016 in varying capacities including as a member of the university’s Committee on Gender Sensitisation Against Sexual Harassment in 2018-2020. Dr. Shakil is closely associated with the Legal Writing and Communication Studio that was established in JGLS in 2026 for students requiring support in learning English Language and Legal English writing. She obtained her B.A. (Hons.) in English from Miranda House, University of Delhi; and M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was awarded a PhD by JNU for her thesis titled ‘Theories of the Novel: A Critical Study of the Development of the Form in the Western Tradition.’ She was elected Secretary of IACLALS (now Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India), 2020-24. She has authored Understanding the Novel: A Theoretical Overview (2015) and co-edited Spheres of Injustice (with Gopal Guru, 2023); From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India (with Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha and Arjun Ghosh, 2023); IACLALS Journal: Reimag(in)ing Identities in the 91视频 South (with Amitendu Bhattacharya and Dhurjjati Sarma, 2020); and Jindal 91视频 Law Review: Women and Law in South Asia (with Upasana Mahanta and Sameena Dalwai, 2019). Further details about her research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) B.S.Chimni is a Distinguished Professor of International Law at JGLS, and a member of its Academic Review Board. He has formerly served as the chairperson of the School Doctoral Committee (SDC) at JGLS. He worked for over three decades as a Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. In the years 2004-6, he was the Vice Chancellor of the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown and Tokyo Universities, the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the American University of Cairo, and has been visiting fellow at Harvard, Minnesota, and York (Canada) universities and the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes. He has been elected an associate member of Institut de Droit International, and is Member, Academic Council, Institute for 91视频 Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. He is former Vice-President Asian Society of International law and at present a member of its Advisory Council. He is former Member of Governing Council, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), and former Member, National Legal Services Authority (NLSA). In 2022 he was honored by the American Society of International Law with its Honorary Membership. The University of London has instituted a scholarship in his name for MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies by Distance-Learning. He has also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has delivered several prestigious lectures, most recently the 2023 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures in Cambridge University. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of International Law. In 2025, he was featured in the Stanford University / Elsevier World’s top 2% scientists’ list. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Gitanjali Surendran is a Professor of History at JGLS and serves as Co-Director of the JGLS Ph.D. Programme. She is a Associate Dean (Research) in JGLS and a member of the Academic Review Board. She completed her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2013 and holds Masters degrees from Harvard, Oxford (where she was a Commonwealth Scholar) and JNU. Her monograph Democracy’s Dhamma: Buddhism in the Making of Modern India, c1890-1956 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. Further details about her research interests and teaching expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Niharika Banerjea is a Professor at JGLS and a member of its Academic Review Board. She is also the Co-Director of Centre for Women’s Rights and Founding Faculty of the Queer Theory Research Cluster at JGLS. Dr. Banerjea has been an honorary Visiting Fellow (non-residential) at the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester. She has also been a visiting scholar at the School of Geography, University College Dublin. She has twenty years of consolidated undergraduate, graduate, and PhD teaching, supervision, and mentorship experience across the United States and India. At JGLS, Dr. Banerjea teaches courses in gender studies, queer studies and social sciences. Niharika is uniquely situated as a transdisciplinary queer, gender and sexuality studies scholar, with critical empirical and collaborative work that crosses academic/activist borders and global north/global south divides. Niharika’s key contribution to queer, gender, and sexuality studies has been studying liveabilities in both its conceptual and critical empirical parameters. Her work is routed through transnational feminisms, focusing on queer-feminist knowledge-making and legitimising academic-activist voices in the academy. She and her colleagues at the University of Sussex and London School of Economics hold a Routledge book series on Ethnographic Innovations: South Asian Perspectives. Her work has been generously supported by competitive awards and grants, including an Economic and Social Research Council Grant, United Kingdom, and Leicester Institute of Advanced Studies, United Kingdom awards. Further details about her research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Kindo is a Professor of Law at JGLS and and a member of its Academic Review Board. He is a founding faculty of JGU, teaching courses primarily at law school, and has offered classes in the languages and literature school. His research expertise is in custom, property, and indigenous identity recognition in twentieth-century India. As a public scholar, Dr. Kindo offers expert input to various international organisations, including shadow reports to the United Nations. Dr. Kindo earned advanced law degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in South Asian humanities. He has received various awards, such as the Ford Foundation International Fellowship, the Franklin Family Fellowship at Stanford University, and the Chancellors Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. In 2014, Dr. Kindo served on the Advisory Board of Routledge South Asia Archive at Taylor & Francis Group, Washington, DC. Dr. Kindo has held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Law School of India University-Bangalore. From 2009-2011, he directed the Center for Human Rights Studies at Jindal 91视频 University Law School. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Dr. Wasiq Abass Dar is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Jindal 91视频 Law School. He is also Associate Director of JGLS Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies (CPGLS). He teaches courses on International Commercial Arbitration, International Investment Law and Investment Arbitration, and Contract Law to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Dr. Wasiq holds an S.J.D. (PhD in Law) in International Business Law from Central European University. He was awarded ‘Full CEU Doctoral Scholarship’ by the Central European University Foundation of Budapest. His doctoral research focused on issues related to International Commercial Arbitration. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Law from South Asian University, India and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Pune, India. Previously, as a 91视频 Teaching Fellow of Central European University, he introduced courses on International Commercial Arbitration and International Investment Law and Investment Arbitration at the University of Yangon, Myanmar. He has been invited as Berger and Clarke Visiting Research Scholar at the Cornell Law School, Cornell University, New York, followed by an invitation to attend the Dickson Poon School of Law at the King’s College London as a Visiting Researcher.  He has practiced law before various courts and tribunals in Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir. Wasiq has also assisted several Arbitral Tribunals, engaged in high stake arbitrations in India, in the capacity of Tribunal Secretary and Arbitration Associate.

Dr. Mani Shekhar Singh Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Humanities at the Jindal 91视频 Law School, 91视频, India. Trained in sociology at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, he has worked on folk art and popular visual culture, with a longstanding ethnographic focus on Mithila painting. He has been awarded several fellowships, including the Postdoctoral Rockefeller Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University; Visiting Fellow, IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspective, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Directeur d’Études Associé ; The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, Visiting Fellow; The Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur,” Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung; and the New India Foundation. He has published in several edited volumes, museum catalogues and journals, including Contributions to Indian Sociology, Indian Folklife, Indian Horizons, Economic and Political Weekly, and Domains. His research interests include visual anthropology, folk and creative expressions, and law, art and aesthetics. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Priyadarshini Gupta got her PhD in English Literature from Ohio University in the United States. She works on the representation of political Islam in global post-9/11 literature. Her key research interests revolve on the ethics of Islamophobia, Neo-Orientalism, and Postcolonial studies. She has published in national and international journals such as South Asian Review and Muse India Journal. Her current projects focus on critically analyzing the nexus of terror, Islamic Caliphate, and Western Muslims in France and the United States. Apart from scholarly interests, Dr Gupta also holds a robust editorial experience. She earned her editorial experiences from Folio Literary Management in New York and Anthem Press in London. She was also the co-founder and former managing editor of Parlour: A Journal of Literary Analysis, a graduate journal run by Ohio University from 2015-2017. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Sourav Mandal is Associate Professor of Law at Jindal 91视频 Law School of O. P. Jindal 91视频 University, Sonipat. He also sits on the Editorial Board of Jindal 91视频 Law Review (Springer) as their Associate Editor. Previously, he has held visiting faculty positions at Georgetown University’s Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London (Fall 2024 term) and was a nominated member of the school board of School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (2022-2024). His scholarship sits on the intersections of Law and Society; Gender, Sexuality and Governance; 91视频 Queer Movements and Law Reform. He has published in various national and international journals, and newspapers. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India for his research over the impact of family jurisprudence on queer lives in India. Formerly, a Felix Scholar, he received Master of Research (M. Res.) in Law and Society from the School of Law, University of Reading, United Kingdom. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, India and Bachelor of Arts and Law (B.A., LL.B.) from Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Jasmeet Gulati is a Professor of Law at Jindal 91视频 Law School, 91视频 (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University), Sonipat, NCR of Delhi (India). She is the Vice Dean for Examinations and Director of the Centre for International Legal Studies. Prof. Gulati was a Visiting Professor of Law (2024-2025) at the University of Virginia School of Law, US. She has been a Recognized Teacher and Online Instructor for LLM with University of Liverpool in association with Laureate Online Higher Education (2012-2015), and has taught Patent Law module at the University of Liverpool (UK). Her qualifications include- Ph.D in International Criminal Law from Panjab University (India), Masters of Laws (LL.M) in Public International Law from University of Cambridge (UK). Her other qualifications and courses include M.A. (Public Administration), LL.B (Panjab University), B.A. (Honours in English), PG Diploma in Cyber Laws and  Management Development Program on IP from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad. She was a Nehru Scholar at University of Cambridge and was awarded Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust in 1999. She has published books and a number of articles in national and international journals. Dr. Gulati is a Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society (UK) and Honorary Fellow of University of Liverpool (UK). Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Manmeet Kaur is an Associate Professor of finance in JGLS, O.P Jindal 91视频 University. She is the Director of Centre for Advancing Research in Management and Law (CARML). She has completed her PhD in Finance from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. She also did an Executive Education program from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania (2025). Her specialization includes corporate governance, financial markets and services, and corporate finance. She has been teaching these subjects at various institutions since 2011. She has published articles extensively in various international and national journals (ABDC and SCOPUS) in the area of governance and banking. She has also presented many paper in various international and national conferences organized by World Finance Conference, IIM’s, FMS, and other organizations. She has also authored 2 books on Financial Markets, Institutions and Services. She has been a resource person at various Management Development Programs being conducted in multi discipline areas organised by PSU’s, University of Delhi and other eminent institutions. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Vesselin Popovski Before coming to India, between 2004 and 2014, Prof. (Dr.) Vesselin Popovski was Senior Academic Officer at the United Nations University in Tokyo. After 2007 he was Head of its Peace and Governance Programme, and after 2010 also Head of the UNU Press. In 2002-2004 Popovski co-directed the European Union project ‘Legal Protection of Individual Rights in Russian Federation’, aimed at providing international legal know-how, training lawyers and human rights activists to apply the European and international human rights mechanisms, developing legal clinics and establishing new offices of the All-Russia Movement for Human Rights, equipping and capacitating them to protect the individual rights of citizens. In 1999-2002 Assistant Professor at the University of Exeter and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies. Undertaking research and teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses on International Law, International Security, European Integration. In 1996-1999 Doctoral Student at King’s College, London and simultaneously a Research Fellow at the NATO Academic Programme “Democratic Institutions”. In 1988-1996 Bulgarian diplomat serving in Sofia, New York and London. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Michael L. Valan is currently serving as an Associate Professor (Criminology) at Jindal 91视频 Law School, 91视频 (Institution of Eminence). He holds a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu. During his research tenure, he worked as a Research Assistant on several projects sponsored by UNICEF and the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). He has actively participated in numerous national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops, where he has presented academic papers. Notably, his first research paper was awarded Best Research Paper at the 36th All India Criminology Conference held in New Delhi. Dr. Valan has published twenty research articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals. In recognition of his contributions to the field, he received the ISV Fellowship Award in 2016 from the Indian Society of Victimology. He has also represented India at academic events in Belgium, Poland, and Dubai.  His areas of expertise include Victimology, Policing, Juvenile Justice, and Crime Prevention, and he brings with him over 10 years of research and teaching experience. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Pallavi Gupta is Associate Professor of Law at JGLS and serves as Co-Director of the Ph.D. Programme at Jindal 91视频 Law School. She is also serving as the Director of the Centre for Women's Rights at JGLS. Dr Gupta is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, an LLB from Indian Law Society's Law College, and a Master's in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Dr Gupta brings two decades of experience as a socio-legal researcher and CEDAW trainer, as well as industry experience as a trainer on POSH, gender and law, and monitoring and evaluation, alongside academic and administrative experience, with university teaching in India and the United States, and professional experience in the development sector. Before joining Jindal 91视频 Law School, she worked as faculty at the University of Hawai'i at M膩noa and served as an Executive Committee member of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i, M膩noa. She has published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, Political Geography, and Review of Gender Studies in the Economic and Political Weekly, to name a few. You can read more about her research, teaching, and publications here.

Prof. (Dr.) Gitanjali Surendran is a Professor of History at JGLS and serves as Co-Director of the JGLS Ph.D. Programme. She is a Associate Dean (Research) in JGLS and a member of the Academic Review Board. She completed her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2013 and holds Masters degrees from Harvard, Oxford (where she was a Commonwealth Scholar) and JNU. Her monograph Democracy’s Dhamma: Buddhism in the Making of Modern India,  1890-1956 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. Further details about her research interests and teaching expertise may be found here.

Dr. Mukta Jain is an Assistant Professor of Economics at JGLS and serves as an Assistant Dean in its Ph.D. Programme. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and Commonwealth Split-Site Scholar from University of Bath, England. Her areas of specialisation include the domains of poverty, automation, machine learning and macro-econometrics.  Previously, she has taught in Ashoka University. Dr. Jain has collaborated with scholars in computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Wageningen University, Netherlands. Her research work has been published in a high-impact factor academic journal and top international conferences.  Further details about her research interests and teaching expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Anantha Ubaradka has completed his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Human Factors & Applied Cognition Lab, IIT Indore. He has published in some of the highly reputed journals, including Scientific Reports, Psychology of Popular Media, Current Psychology, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He has also presented his work at international forums such as IEA 2024 in South Korea, ACED 2023 at IIM Mumbai, and MBCC 2025 at IIT Mandi. His work spans media psychology, social cognition, and human–computer interaction, examining how contemporary digital environments shape cognition, emotions, and social behavior. A central thread of his research focuses on the psychological antecedents and consequences of online aggression, including trolling, cyberbullying, and online sexual harassment. His doctoral work examined violent video game exposure and its impact on emotional information processing. Further details about her research interests and teaching expertise may be found here.

Mr. Jivtesh Singh Sandhu joined JGLS in early 2025 and currently serves as the Programme Manager for the Ph.D. programme. With a background in legal practice, he transitioned to higher education administration and has since held various administrative and managerial roles at JGU. His experience spans multiple facets of institutional administration and academic operations.