Social Sciences
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
She is a '04 graduate of the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research and a recent ('08) graduate of Harvard Law School (where she did an LL.M with a shared focus in international finance and the sociology of legal education).
Before coming to Harvard, she was a corporate lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas and a research associate and lecturer at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (where she taught parts of the legal methods and family law courses and offered for senior students a seminar in international finance). At HLS, she worked closely with the Harvard History Project (her graduate thesis was a paper on the history of South Asian law students at HLS) and was on the board of the South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA).
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Dr Nimushakavi Vasanthi
Dr Nimushakavi Vasanthi has been teaching at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, A.P, India for the past 8 years. She has taught a range of courses in Constitutional law, Administrative law, Criminal law, Contracts II, Property law, Poverty and law,...
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Rohit De
Rohit De is a graduate student at the Department of History at Princeton. His primary interest is in South Asian legal history and he is particularly interested in studying the courtroom as a space where the relationship between the state and the citizen...
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Mitra Sharafi
Mitra Sharafi is a legal historian whose work focuses on colonial India. After completing a history degree in Canada (BA McGill, 1996) and studying law in the UK (BA Cambridge, 1998; BCL Oxford, 1999), Sharafi did a doctorate in history (PhD Princeton,...
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Oishik Sircar
Oishik Sircar is a human rights lawyer and independent researcher from India and presently Graduate Scholar in Women's Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He has worked as a campaigner with Amnesty International and has taught at...
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Samia Bano
Dr. Samia Bano is a lecturer in Family Law at the University of Reading. She obtained her PhD at the University of Warwick, Department of Law where her doctoral research explored the relationship between ?Muslim Family Law and South Asian Muslim Women...
Social Sciences