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Prof. (Dr.) Dipika Jain is the Executive Dean and Professor of Law at Jindal Global 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 Global South (with Amitendu Bhattacharya and Dhurjjati Sarma, 2020); and Jindal Global 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 Global 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.) Indranath Gupta is a Professor of Law at the JGLS and a member of its Academic Review Board. He also serves as the Dean, Office of Data, Innovation and Technology at the university. He held the Jean-Monnet Chair- Academic Coordinator for the project ‘Multi-dimensional Approaches to the Understanding of the E.U. Data Protection Framework’ in the years 2020-23. He has been also invited as a Jean Monnet Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Jean Monnet Centre for Intellectual Property & Management, Bournemouth University, UK. Prof. Gupta was earlier appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. Professor Gupta holds two LL.M. degrees (taught and research) from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Ph.D. from Brunel University, London. He also taught at the Brunel Law School during this Ph.D., which looked at the transnational influence of the US Supreme Court’s judgement in the Feist case in the framing of the Database Directive in the European Union. Prof. Gupta specialises in Technology Law and aspects of Intellectual Property Law. He has contributed to globally reputed journals. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Manveen Singh is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). He is also the Director of Centre for Postgraduate Legal Studies (CPGLS) and the Deputy Director of the Jindal Initiative on Research in Intellectual Property and Competition (JIRICO). Dr. Singh was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Israel, in November 2022. His primary areas of interest are Intellectual Property Rights, Technology and Innovation, intersection of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, and the Law of Evidence. Dr. Singh has widely published on Intellectual Property Law and Law of Evidence in globally reputed journals and received research grants from renowned foundations. Dr. Singh holds a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), Panjab University, and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from University College London (UCL), where he was awarded the Master of the Rolls Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. from Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University; his research being on standardisation and the licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs). He was the recipient of the Award for Teaching Excellence in 2015, and the Awards for Research Excellence in 2017 and 2021 at Jindal Global Law School. Further details about his research interests and 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 Global University Law School. Further details about his research interests and expertise may be found here.

Prof. (Dr.) Saumya Umais a Professor of Law at JGLS and serves as Co-Director of its Ph.D. Programme. She is also a member of its Academic Review Board, and additionally serves as the Director of Centre for Women’s Rights and Founding Faculty of Feminist Research Cluster at JGLS. Dr. Uma has over 31 years’ combined work experience as an academic, law researcher, lawyer / law practitioner, trainer, writer and campaigner. She graduated from National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in 1994. She obtained her first LL.M. in Human Rights and Family Law from University of Mumbai in 1997, and her second LL.M. in International Human Rights from the University of Nottingham, U.K. in 1999. She was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship for Human Rights for 1998-99. She was awarded the Ph.D. in law by NLSIU for her thesis titled ‘Victim and Witness Protection in Cases of Gender-based Violence.’ She has authored twelve books including by Routledge, edited/co-edited books published by Oxford University Press and Springer Nature, and has over seventy peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed, renowned journals. Her latest monograph is titled 'Violence, Gender and the State: "Not Just" a Legal Analysis' (Routledge, 2024). Dr. Uma teaches, researches, writes and speaks at the intersections of gender, human rights and the law. Further details about her research interests and teaching expertise may be found here.

Dr. Wasiq Abass Dar is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Jindal Global 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 Global 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.

Prof. (Dr.) Saumya Uma is a Professor of Law at JGLS and serves as Co-Director of its Ph.D. Programme. She is also a member of its Academic Review Board (ARB), and additionally serves as the Director of Centre for Women’s Rights and Founding Faculty of Feminist Research Cluster at JGLS. Dr. Uma has over 31 years’ combined work experience as an academic, law researcher, lawyer / law practitioner, trainer, writer and campaigner. Her latest monograph is titled 'Violence, Gender and the State: "Not Just" a Legal Analysis' (Routledge, 2024). Dr. Uma teaches, researches, writes and speaks at the intersections of gender, human rights and the law. Further details about her research interests and teaching 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,  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.

Mr. Rohit Bathla joined JGLS in 2026 and serves as the Programme Manager of its Ph.D. programme. He discharges administrative responsibilities in relation to the programme, and is in-charge of its day-to-day functioning. Mr. Rohit has over ten years’ experience in administrative and managerial roles in the educational sector. Prior to joining O.P. Jindal Global University, he worked with Pearl Academy, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida and University of Petroleum and Energy Studies.

Ms. Anitha Shibu served the Ph.D. programme of JGLS as its Senior Manager since the inception of the programme in Fall 2017 till March 2026. After a very successful phase of managing the programme and overseeing its growth and expansion, she has now transitioned to another managerial role in the university.