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Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi

Bachelor of Science (Honours) (B.Sc. Hons.), University of Delhi

Prof. Amartya Kanjilal

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Email amartya.kanjilal@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Constitutional law, criminal law, legal histories, gender, human rights

Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi

Bachelor of Science (Honours) (B.Sc. Hons.), University of Delhi

Biography

Amartya Kanjilal completed his law degree from the Campus Law Centre at the University of Delhi. He holds an LLM from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, as a Fulbright-Nehru fellow. He also received the International and Comparative Law scholarship at University of Michigan. He has litigation experience in several courts in Delhi, and has represented death sentenced prisoners at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi. His research interests lie in criminal law reform, penology, constitutional law, gender and legal histories.

Law of Crimes

DPC

Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, 2024

“An Unjust Mercy: Locating the Illegalities in the Release of the Convicts in the Bilkis Bano Case” | March, 2023, Indian Journal of Gender Studies [Volume 30 Issue 2]

“Narrating Legal Reform: The Open Letter and the Anti-Rape Movement in Perspective” | April 2022, Indian Journal of Gender Studies | [Volume 29, Issue 2], at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09715215221082178?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar- articles.3

“The case for a qualified journalistic privilege in India” | June 2021, at https://p39ablog.com/2021/06/09/the-case-for-a-qualified-journalistic-privilege-in-india/

“Life without remission: An Irreviewable and Unconstitutional Punishment” | September 2019, at :https://lawandotherthings.com/2019/09/life-without-remission-an-irreviewable-and- unconstitutional-punishment/

“Life imprisonment without the possibility of release-The many constitutional sins of Sriharan” | September 2018, in www.livelaw.in. Non-pay-walled version can be accessed

“The Quality of Mercy” | July 2017, in The Caravan Magazine. Non pay-walled version may be accessed here. Nominated for the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, 2018

“Death sentences in the Delhi gang rape case: brutality as trumps” | May, 2017, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, at https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/death-sentences-in-the-delhi-gang-rape-case- brutality-as-trumps/
Email amartya.kanjilal@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Constitutional law, criminal law, legal histories, gender, human rights
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