Biography

Pinki Mathur Anurag is Associate Professor at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India. Pink's research and advocacy work lies at the interaction of international human rights law and feminist engagements with law and society. Before transitioning to academia, Pinki was Director at the Lawyers Collective, Women’s Rights Initiative (LCWRI). She has extensive litigation experience ranging from matrimonial, child custody disputes to domestic violence and sexual harassment. She participated in the process of drafting and consultation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2006 (PWDVA) and supervised the annual monitoring and evaluation of the law, she conducted trainings for the police and the judiciary on the domestic violence law in Maharashtra organised by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Pinki initiated and moderated a Survivors’ Group for women survivors of domestic violence at LCWRI. 

As Coordinator of Asia Cause Lawyers Network, (ACLN) -an initiative of the Wellesley Centre for Gender, Wellesley College, USA and LCWRI; she facilitated a network of lawyers, activists, academics and researchers with the shared objective of engaging with feminist jurisprudence and litigation strategies. Pinki ran the Legal Aid Cell at LCWRI, attended court, represented clients at the Family Court and High Court of Bombay on matrimonial disputes, child custody and domestic violence cases, management of ongoing projects (funded by UN Women and Ford Foundation). Pinki developed high-quality training material and position papers on surrogacy, matrimonial property, marital rape for advocacy on these issues, supervision of work / mentoring Legal Officers and Research & Advocacy Officers, strategic litigation on gender rights.

She represented ACLN as the technical expert on domestic violence at the ASEAN Workshop on Domestic Violence, Hanoi, Vietnam (2008). Along with Indira Jaising, she provided expertise on Violence Against Women at the Consultation of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, Manila, Philippines (2012), hosted by the Government of Philippines, organised by UN Women and UNICEF. Pinki was a panellist at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Hague, on a Round Table on Women’s Access to Justice, Gender Equality and the Rule of Law (2015).

As Visiting Faculty at Elizabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, NY Pinki taught modules on Protection of Forests & Public Interest Litigation to Advance Environmental Rights in India and Environmental Justice and Public Interest Litigation in India to LLM Students.

Pinki is co-editor of Violence in Intimate Spaces: Law and beyond, SDG Series, Springer, Singapore, 2024. She has curated elective courses encompassing her areas of interests ranging from law, literature, violence and international law.