Biography

Prajakta is currently Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Dean and a Doctoral Scholar at JGLS. She holds LLM from Queen Mary University of London, with specialisation in Cyber Law, IPR and International Banking. She pursued her undergraduate studies in Law (LL.B.) and Engineering (B.E. in Information Technology) from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad and has consistently excelled in academics.

Her area of interest is at intersection of law, technology and society. She has keen interest in research on Machine Ethics and is curious about studying legal aspects of technologies like AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and other legal issues concerning technology viz. Data Protection, IP, Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, and has published at international and national level. 

Prior to joining JGLS, she has worked for qLegal, the Legal Advice Center of Queen Mary University of London, which provides free legal advice to tech start-up companies and Entrepreneurs. As part of this assignment, she externed with Belgium based techno legal start-up ‘Lawren’, where she worked on AI based legal chat bot for UK market. She is recipient of 2018/19 Prieskel Essay Prize for best legal essay on Computer and Communication law subject as judged by Prieskel & Co LLP, London.

She was selected as ‘Student Leader’ in 1st Indian Students Parliament at Pune where she presented her views on ‘Women Empowerment’ and got an opportunity to visit significant organizations viz. International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, UNESCO HQ at Paris, WTO HQ at Geneva, Commonwealth Secretariat at London, The European Parliament and NATO HQ at Brussels, Belgium. This International exposure in the early stage of career influenced her thought process and triggered her to make a shift from purely technical domain to that of humanities and social sciences.