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Ph.D. in Law, National Law School of India University, Bangalore

M.Res. (Law and Society), University of Reading

Master of Laws (LL.M.), Indian Law Institute

B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), Jamia Millia Islamia

Prof. (Dr.) Sourav Mandal

Associate Professor

Email sourav@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0009-0002-8695-2303
Key Expertise Constitutional Law, Law and Society; Gender, Sexuality and Governance; Global Queer Movements and Law Reform.

Ph.D. in Law, National Law School of India University, Bangalore

M.Res. (Law and Society), University of Reading

Master of Laws (LL.M.), Indian Law Institute

B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), Jamia Millia Islamia

Biography

Sourav is Associate Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School of O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He also sits on the Editorial Board of Jindal Global 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; Global Queer Movements and Law Reform. He has published in various national and international journals, and newspapers. He has previously taught courses on Constitutional Law of India; Human Rights Law in South Asia; Comparative Public Law; Gender, Sexuality and Family Law. At JGLS, he teaches Constitutional Law, and Legal Methods to undergraduate law students and Comparative Public Law to Graduate law students. Additionally, he offers an elective course titled ‘Queering Kinship, Family, Intimate Relationships in Law, Theory and Practice’. 

Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore, India where he offered undergraduate courses on Constitutional Law; Human Rights; and Law and Society. Before that, he had worked with the Centre for Women and Law, National Law School of India University on their Human Rights Lawyering Project.

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.
 

Constitutional Law I (L-CT-0023)

Legal Methods (LW-1101)

Comparative Public Law (L-CM-0006)

Queering Kinship, Family, Intimate Relationships in Law, Theory and Practice (L-EL-0408)

Felix Scholarship, 2017-18 to study M. Res. in Law and Society at School of Law, University of Reading, United Kingdom.

Paul Webley Alphawood Scholarship, 2017-18 to study LLM Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom. (Not availed)

University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test, 2012

Christ University Minor Research Project, 2015-16 by the Centre for Research, Christ University, Bangalore, India for the monograph titled ‘Sexual Orientation as a ground of Non-discrimination under Article 15(1) of the Constitution of India.’

Georgetown University’s Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London (Fall 2024 term)

Nominated Member of School Board, School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (2022-2024)

Economic and Political Weekly (2023, 2024)

National Law School of India Review (2021, 2025)

Associate Editor, Jindal Global Law Review (2023-till date)

Model Code on Indian Family Law 2023 and 2024 (Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

  • ‘The Present and Future of Global Legal Education’, (Global Law Schools’ Summit, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, 01-03 December 2021). 
  • ‘Constitutionalism: Idealism vs. Realism’ (Law School Admission Council—Global, Gurugram, 26 November 2021). 
  • ‘Queering the Human Rights Legal Framework’ (Committee for Human Rights and Duties, Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai, 04 September 2020). 
  • ‘India’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Issues relating to Civil Rights and Constitutional Governance’ (Post Graduate Research Meeting, School of Law, University of Reading, Reading, 30 June 2020). 
  • ‘Shadow Pandemic: Challenges to safety of women and sexual minorities’ (Centre for Law and Society, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, 26 May 2020).
  • ‘Gilgit-Baltistan—A Road Map?’ (Department of National Security Studies, Central University of Jammu, Jammu 18 May 2020). 
  • ‘Mapping the Vulnerabilities within Queer Kinship practices: a qualitative evaluation of lived socio-legal realities experienced by twenty-one participants from urban/semi-urban India’ (Queer Kinship Symposium, University of Reading, Reading, 7 June 2018).
  • ‘Outlining Gender Discourses in Law’ (Workshop on Gender Discourses, Department of English, Christ University, Bangalore, 26 February 2014).
     

Sourav Mandal and Aishwarya Pagedar, “A brief sketch and some open questions: Legal scholarly publishing on South Asia” (2024) 15(1) Jindal Global Law Review 1-24 [ISSN: 0975-2498, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-024-00230-6].

Sourav Mandal, “Marriage Equality in India: A Road Map for Inclusive Lawyering, Activism, and Policymaking” (2023) 58(35) Economic and Political Weekly 23-26 [ISSN: 0012-9976, URL: https://www.epw.in/author/sourav-mandal].

Sourav Mandal, “Patriarchy in Law” in Smita M Patil & Gurmeet Kaur (eds.), Understanding Gender and Law (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2023) [ISBN: 978-93-5568-811-8, URL: https://egyankosh.ac.in/handle/123456789/97098].

Sourav Mandal, “Discrimination against LGBTQI+ People” in Smita M Patil & Gurmeet Kaur (eds.), Understanding Gender and Law (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2023) [ISBN: 978-93-5568-811-8, URL: https://egyankosh.ac.in/handle/123456789/101732].

Sourav Mandal, ‘Fulfilling the Promise of Equality: Indian Supreme Court and Affirmative Actions’ (Durham Centre for Indian Law and Policy: Inaugural Conference, Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham, 19-20 June 2023).

Sourav Mandal, “The Politics of Regulating Adult Sexuality through the Institution of Marriage: Reflections on Queer Experiences from India” in Tanja Herklotz, Siddarth De Souza (eds.), Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India 225-241 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) [ISBN: 9781108991735, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991735.013].

Sourav Mandal, ‘Seeking Justice in India’s Family Law: The Case for Legal Recognition of Families Founded on Non-Marital Cohabitation’ (Rethinking Law, Gender and Justice in India Conference, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 26 August 2021).

Sourav Mandal, 'Changing Notions of Queerness in Queer Kinship: a qualitative study of queer lives from contemporary India' (Gayness in Queer Times Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, 13-14 June 2019)

Sourav Mandal, “The Medical Practice of Corrective Surgeries on Persons born with Intersex-variations in India: A Critical Evaluation” (2018) Vol. 43, No. 2 Journal of Dharma 151-168 [ISSN: 0253-7222, Scopus: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85059076570&partnerID=MN8TOARS].

Sourav Mandal, ‘The Politics of Regulating Adult Sexuality through the Institution of Marriage: a Queer Critique of the Indian Family Jurisprudence’ (Queering Paradigms IX conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, 11-13 July 2018)

Sourav Mandal, ‘Impact of Marriage on Queer Lives in India’ (Queer Asia III conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 26-28 June 2018)

Sourav Mandal, ‘The Social-life of HIV/AIDS in Urban India: A Queer Analysis of Three Case Studies’ (International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture VII, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, 25-28 May 2018).

Sourav Mandal, “The Development of Sexual Orientation as a ground of Non-discrimination in the Indian Constitutional Discourse: Taking the Judicial Discourse beyond NALSA” (2017) Vol. 2, No. 3 & 4 International Journal of Legal Research and Governance 25-38 [ISSN:2394-7829].

Sourav Mandal, ‘Circular Ruins of Gender and Sexuality in Family Jurisprudence: Queer study of two cases’ (National Consultation of Law Teachers, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, 17-18 March 2017).

Sourav Mandal, “Impact of Family Jurisprudence on Queer Lives: A Queer Critique” (2016) Vol. 2, No. 4 The Investigator 22-48 [ISSN: 2454-3314].

Sourav Mandal, ‘Impact of Family Jurisprudence on Queer Lives: A Queer Critique’ (Quest I, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, 16-17 December 2016)
Email sourav@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0009-0002-8695-2303
Key Expertise Constitutional Law, Law and Society; Gender, Sexuality and Governance; Global Queer Movements and Law Reform.
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