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LL.M. Candidate (Harvard University), 2023

B.A. LL.B. (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad); 2019

 

Prof. Srujana Bej

Assistant Professor

Email srujana.bej@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Critical Legal Studies Property Law Land Laws Spatial Justice Caste
LL.M. Candidate (Harvard University), 2023

B.A. LL.B. (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad); 2019

 

Biography

Srujana Bej earned her undergraduate degree in law from NALSAR University in 2019 and graduated with a master’s degree in law from Harvard Law School in 2023. Her interests lie in property law, land laws, spatial justice, critical caste studies, and socio-legal research.

In the past, Srujana researched the right to food and worked as a researcher for the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, where she studied the casteist frameworks of India’s criminal justice system. Her writings have been published by Orient Blackswan, Economic and Political Weekly, and The Indian Express.

Srujana’s master’s thesis was selected for presentation at the 9th Annual Michigan Junior Scholars Conference. Her research on Aadhaar’s implications on the right to food, supervised by Prof. Reetika Khera, has been cited by both the Supreme Court of India and the Indian Parliament.

Srujana believes in facilitating collaborative commons-based learning in the classroom and encourages her students to adopt interdisciplinary approaches.

 
  • Labour Law – II
  • Environmental Law
 

Accessible Green Spaces?: The Spatialization of Caste Power In Hyderabad, India, South Asia Legal Studies Workshop, University of Wisconsin Law School (1 – 2 December 2023).

Caste, Municipal Regulations, and Urban Parks: How Public are Green Spaces in Hyderabad, India?, Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL (21 – 22 April 2023).

Caste as a Category of Algorithmic Harm, The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms, DATA & SOCIETY (10 – 11 March 2022).

Without Fear? Exploring online civic space participation by marginalised women in India, THE BACHCHAO PROJECT (2022), with Ayesha Minhaz.

Construction(s) of Female Criminality: Gender, Caste and State Violence, 56 ECONOMIC & POLITICAL WEEKLY 36 (2021), with Nikita Sonavane and Ameya Bokil.

The Anxious State, 56 ECONOMIC & POLITICAL WEEKLY 5 (2021), with Nikita Sonavane and Ameya Bokil.

Settled Habits, New Tricks: Casteist Policing meets Big Tech in India, STATE OF POWER REPORT, TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE (2021), with Avaneendra Khare, Ameya Bokil, Nikita Sonavane and Vaishali Janarthanan.

A New AI Lexicon: Caste, AI NOW INSTITUTE (12 November 2021), with Nikita Sonavane.

Why Madhya Pradesh’s new liquor law fails to address casteist, colonial policing, SCROLL (9 September 2021), with Kanishka Singh.

In the name of efficiency, NEP disregards children’s right to playgrounds, THE INDIAN EXPRESS (2 March 2021).

States must stop clamping down on free speech in name of fake news, THE INDIAN EXPRESS (9 February 2021), with Ameya Bokil and Nikita Sonavane.

Granting bail is the rule, THE HINDU (28 December 2020), with Ameya Bokil and Nikita Sonavane.

Push for repopulating prisons during a pandemic is reckless, THE INDIAN EXPRESS (2 November 2020), with Ameya Bokil and Nikita Sonavane.

Is Aadhaar like the Social Security Number?, DISSENT ON AADHAAR: BIG DATA MEETS BIG BROTHER, ORIENT BLACKSWAN (ed. Reetika Khera, 2019).

Well Done ABBA? Aadhaar and the Public Distribution System in Hyderabad, 52 ECONOMIC & POLITICAL WEEKLY 7 (2017), with Anmol Somanchi and Mrityunjay Pandey.

Which environmental issues did our Lok Sabha Representatives raise during Question Hour?, NLS SOCIO-LEGAL REVIEW Forum (1 October 2017).

Skewed scales: Indian judiciary is 90% male & mostly upper caste, QUINT (12 January 2017).

No end to inconvenience: Aadhaar and PDS in Hyderabad, DECCAN HERALD (27 November 2016), with Anmol Somanchi.
Email srujana.bej@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Critical Legal Studies Property Law Land Laws Spatial Justice Caste
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