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Ph.D. Candidate, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, Melbourne, Australia

Juris Doctor (J.D.), cum laude, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, USA

Prof. Manasi Kumar

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Email manasi@jgu.edu.in
Main Discipline Law of Contracts
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ORCID ID 0000-0002-5027-4929
Key Expertise Indian contract law; private law methodology; comparative contract law (common law); commercial contract drafting; law of obligations.

Ph.D. Candidate, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, Melbourne, Australia

Juris Doctor (J.D.), cum laude, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, USA

Biography

Prof. Manasi Kumar is a Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, where she teaches foundational contract law and a self-designed, highly popular elective on commercial contract drafting — one of the most consistently sought-after courses at JGLS. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a commercial dispute resolution attorney with well-known law firms in India and the United States, where she was admitted to the Oregon state bar. She had a diverse commercial practice spanning construction, oil and gas, government procurements, insurance, and maritime law.

Her research focuses on Indian contract law, private law methodology, and comparative contract law in the common law world. She is Managing Editor of the Jindal Global Law Review, published by Springer Nature and indexed in Scopus. She is also an affiliate of the Relational Construction Law Collaborative (RCLCresearch.com), an international research network engaged in scholarship and academic programming on relational contracting.

In 2020, she received the O.P. Jindal Global University Research Excellence Award. Her doctoral thesis on objectivity and contextualism in the Indian law of contracts (Deakin University) has been submitted for external examination.

Law of Contracts I & II

Commercial Contract Drafting (self-designed elective)

Animal Welfare Law (self-designed elective)

Research Excellence Award, O.P. Jindal Global University, 2020

Visiting Faculty, Shiv Nadar School of Law (2025–present)

Adjunct Faculty, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata (2022–2024)

Invited faculty presentation, BML Munjal Law School, May 2026. Private law methodology for Indian contract law.

‘Conversations on the Foundations of Indian Contract Law.’ Shiv Nadar School of Law, November 2025.

‘Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia VI’ Workshop. National University of Singapore, September 2024.

Convened ‘Contract Law in Common Law Countries – A Study in Divergence’ conference series (2021), with LCCFL and IALS, University of London. Resulted in special double-issue, Liverpool Law Review, Volume 43, Issue 2, 2022.

17th Asia Law Institute Conference, NUS/NLU Delhi, November 2020.

‘The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform,’ IALS, University of London, October 2019.
 

Managing Editor, Jindal Global Law Review, Springer Nature

Member, Editorial Board, Liverpool Law Review, Springer Nature
 

Manasi Kumar and Poorna Mysoor. ‘The Duty of Good Faith’ in Foundations of Indian Contract Law (eds KV Krishnaprasad, N Venkatesan, S Swaminathan & U Varottil). Oxford University Press, 2024.

Manasi Kumar. ‘The “Positive Law” of Impossibility in the Indian Contract Act.’ Indian Law Review, Volume 7, 2023.

Manasi Kumar, Maren Heidemann. ‘Contract Law in Common Law Countries: A Study in Divergence.’ Liverpool Law Review, Volume 43, Issue 2, 2022, pp. 133–147.

Manasi Kumar, Nishtha Pant. ‘Construing the Written Warranty.’ Liverpool Law Review, Volume 43, Issue 2, 2022, pp. 361–388.

Manasi Kumar. ‘The “Composite Transaction” and Extension of Arbitration Agreements in India.’ Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 27, Issue 3, 2020, pp. 363–390.

Manasi Kumar. ‘The Chimera of Restraint of Trade in India.’ Journal of Contract Law, Volume 37, 2021, pp. 64–85.

Manasi Kumar and Isha Saluja. ‘Relocating Fertility: Charting the Course for Uterine Transplants in India.’ Quinnipiac Health Law Journal, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 49–80.

Manasi Kumar. ‘Birthing a Contract: A Critical Evaluation of Commercial Surrogacy in India through a Contractual Framework.’ Indian Law Review, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2018, pp. 206–231.

Catherine Brinkman, Manasi Kumar. ‘Bid Disputes.’ Construction Law Volume, The Oregon State Bar’s Practitioner’s Guide Series, 2011.
Email manasi@jgu.edu.in
Main Discipline Law of Contracts
ORCID ID 0000-0002-5027-4929
Key Expertise Indian contract law; private law methodology; comparative contract law (common law); commercial contract drafting; law of obligations.
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