Biography

As a law teacher at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), Sandeep teaches courses relating to electoral democracy, comparative public law, legal methods, and criminal procedural law. As a teacher, he strongly believes in improving students’ access to their teachers and fostering deeper engagements with the law, both inside and outside the classroom. Besides, Sandeep is currently a part-time doctoral candidate at JGLS. His thesis concerns the Supreme Court of India’s jurisprudence on Article 14 (equality) of the Indian Constitution. In addition to his primary teaching and research responsibilities, he has served in the JGLS administration, overseeing academic affairs, international collaborations, and student initiatives on campus. Moreover, he has served the JGLS Legal Aid Clinic (2019-21). As its Assistant Director, Sandeep worked with the clinic’s student members in assisting crime victims in the local vicinity to file criminal complaints, connecting them with legal aid counsels, strategizing prison reform initiatives and RTI applications regarding the enforcement of the right to education.

Sandeep pursued his LLB from NLU Jodhpur (2015). Later, he was awarded the Master’s Excellence Scholarship to earn the LLM degree from CEU, Budapest (2017) with second rank. In the Fall Term at CEU, he received the best academic performance award and a financial grant to pursue short-term research at the University of Geneva. At CEU, he also received the highest grade for his LLM thesis on voting as a duty-right.

Before travelling to Budapest, Sandeep worked as a Litigation and Research Associate at the Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore (2015). He appeared and assisted in litigations before the High Court, district civil courts and consumer forums apart from advising clients on legal issues concerning several central and state legislation. Furthermore, he worked on research projects concerning criminal trials of sexual offences, disability rights, right to education, and the Constituent Assembly debates. While in Bangalore, Sandeep also briefly worked as a Research Consultant with Daksh, Bangalore (2016) and contributed to projects on access to justice and judicial administration and pendency issues.