\u2018Assisting faculty members at the Centre for Clinical Programmes and the Centre for Health Law and Ethics at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) made me believe in the significant power of law as an instrument of social and political change,\u2019 says Shireen Moti. The inspiration led to the formation of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Clinical Legal Aid Society, which encourages law students to provide legal aid to the marginalized and underprivileged. She was not just one of its founders, but also led the society from the front as its President for five years. What started as a five-member society had around 300 members by the end of her tenure in 2014. The much-awarded student, and the force behind the much-awarded society, went on to become a noted human rights lawyer. Shireen is now back at JGLS as a Research Associate and also handles the JGU Office of Alumni Affairs. Talk about life coming a full, and fulfilling circle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking back on\nher time at JGLS, Shireen remembers the mentoring she received from Vice\nChancellor Professor C. Raj Kumar, and faculty members including Professor Ajay\nPandey and Professor Dipika Jain. She says their guidance inspired her to pursue\nexcellence and remain steadfast in her quest to acquire knowledge as a student.\nShe delved deep into research, and her academic papers – \u2018International Labor\nOrganization Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers: Should India Ratify It?\u2019\nand \u2018Credit Rating Agencies: A Case For Government Regulations\u2019 – brought much\nacclaim. In fact, during her time at JGU, Shireen also won the \u2018Best\nStudent in Clinics\u2019 and \u2018Best Student in Public Interest\u2019 awards. But it\u2019s her\nwork with the legal aid society, which won the \u2018Best Society Award\u2019 for two\nconsecutive years, that she cherishes the most. That\u2019s why she continued engaging\nas a mentor with the society after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JGLS Clinical\nLegal Aid Society continued its good work and got recognized by Herbert Smith\nin 2016. The same year Shireen was awarded the distinction of Associate Fellow\nof the Royal Commonwealth Society, UK for five years. Winning the prestigious\nForeign and Commonwealth Office British Chevening Scholarship gave her the\nopportunity to pursue an LLM in the UK. She captured her experience for the\nbenefit of future students in her first book Guide to LLM Admissions and Scholarships Abroad<\/em>, which publishers\nUniversal Law Publications and LexisNexis declared a bestseller. While in the\nUK, it wasn\u2019t just scholarly books that won Shireen recognition. She had the\nhonour of being invited to the House of Commons, London by British MP Bob\nBlackman. In the hallowed house, she presented her poem on \u2018Exodus of Kashmiri\nPandits\u2019, a proud moment and an equally moving experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n During her time at\nJGU, Shireen had interned with organizations like the United Nations, as a Special Rapporteur of Extreme Poverty\nand Human Rights, at Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A. Shroff and Company, and at AZB\n& Partners. After her Master\u2019s, she came back to pursue her legal career\nwith Nishith Desai Associates. However, within a year, she returned to\nJGLS as a Research Associate. For her, \u2018working on research projects at JGU was\na huge learning and enriching experience\u2019. As she continues her research\ndreams, she is also teaching courses at JGLS. Still working closely with the\nClinical Programme Centre, she initiated collaboration with Navjyoti India\nFoundation to increase access to education. Her international project with\nQueen Mary University involves conducting qualitative research on domestic\nviolence in India. And, by guiding current students, she is keeping the torch of\nsocial and political development burning bright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Assisting faculty members at the Centre for Clinical Programmes and the Centre for Health Law and Ethics at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) made me believe in the significant power of law as an instrument of social and political change,\u2019 says Shireen Moti. The inspiration led to the formation of Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}