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Ph.D (pursuing), National Law University, Delhi 

Master of Laws (LL.M.), The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Leeds, UK

BSc LLB (H), Central University of South Bihar, Gaya

Prof. Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar

Assistant Professor

Email skishwar@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0001-6716-0728
Key Expertise Sanya's research endeavours aim to contribute to the understanding and resolution of critical issues in human rights, digital antifeminism, and environmental law. Through her publications and academic pursuits, she strives to influence policy and foster a social change.

Ph.D (pursuing), National Law University, Delhi 

Master of Laws (LL.M.), The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Leeds, UK

BSc LLB (H), Central University of South Bihar, Gaya

Biography

An enthusiast in the field of human rights, Sanya holds a master’s (LL.M.) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Leeds, U.K. and a master’s in general laws (LL.M.) from the Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. She has completed her BSc. LLB (H) degree from Central University of South Bihar and was a recipient of Chancellor’s Gold Medal, Department Gold Medal and School Gold Medal. A recipient of the Best Law Student Award, 2018 (SILF-MILAT), Sanya was a part of the team representing Penn State that won the 26th Williem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. Her areas of interest are gender studies, feminist theories and intersectional issues. She has qualified UGC-NET (Law) and is enrolled as a doctoral candidate at National Law University, Delhi, researching the topic of rising digital antifeminism in the Global South. Sanya has also worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Women's Rights and Child Rights Clinic at the Jindal Global Law School.

Jurisprudence-I

Professional Ethics and Bar Bench Relations

Public International Law

Legal Methods

Family Law-I

History of Courts, Legislature & Legal Profession in India

Second Position, Climate Resilience as Foreign Policy: India’s Green Opportunity in Afghanistan (co-authored, Kishwar, S., Sarwar, A. & Ali, Z.), ICWA × CAS Conference (Indian Council of World Affairs & Centre for Afghanistan Studies, 2026)

Second Position, Protecting the Palk Bay: A Critical Account of India’s Regulatory Measures for Climate Resilience in the Bay of Bengal (co-authored, Kishwar, S.D., Vatsa, K. & Khatoon, S.), 1st International Law of the Sea Blog Competition (Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy – BCOLP, 2023)

Best Research Paper Award, Digital Anti-feminism in India as a Hindrance to Gender Mainstreaming in E-learning platforms, CLEA 2023 Golden Jubilee Conference (Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, 2-4 March, 2023)

Best Paper in the Human Rights Panel, The (Un)Holy Punishments - A Critical Account of Islamic Extremism in Pakistani and Maldivian Laws, SAPLaw’22 (25-26 November, 2022)

Winner, Eric E. Bergsten Award for Best Team Orals, 26th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court, Vienna, 2018 – 2019

Winner, Best Law Student of India Award, 2018 – 2019

Recipient, Chancellor’s Gold Medal, Batch of 2013-18, Central University of South Bihar

Recipient, School Gold Medal, Batch of 2013-18, Central University of South Bihar

Recipient, Department Gold Medal, Batch of 2013-18, Central University of South Bihar

Kishwar, S.D., Singh, J. & Tyagi, S., Customary International Law and the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion: From COP Politics to Judicial Authority, PoliLegal (Online Blog) (15 May, 2026).

Kishwar, S.D., Gupta, S. & Jindal, D., Gaps in International Criminal Law on Third-Party Responsibility for AI-Enabled Drones and Targeted Ecocide, Virtuosity Legal (Online Blog) (12 May, 2026).

Kishwar, S.D. & Nahar, A., Justice Delayed, Ecology Denied: Judicial Delay as Environmental Harm in Aravalli Litigation, Climate Law Initiative India (Online Blog) (1 Apr., 2026)

Kishwar, S.D. & Goyal, I., Automating Exclusion: Facial Recognition and the Erosion of the Right to Food in India, I•CONnect (Online Blog) (6 Feb., 2026)

Kishwar, S.D., Saraswat, V. & Haris, M., Migration with Dignity or Statelessness by Design?: A Closer look at the curious case of Kiribati, Oxford Human Rights Hub (Online Blog) (13 Jan., 2026)

Kishwar, S.D. & Parmaar, S.S., Revisiting the Right to Die with Dignity: A Critical Look at Karnataka’s Progressive Approach to Autonomy, The Society for Constitutional Law Discussion (Online Blog) (11 Jan., 2026)

Kishwar, S.D., Chapolia, P. & Zaidi, S.A.N., Is Life Imprisonment Without Remission a ‘Fourth Category’ of Punishment? Is Life Imprisonment Without Remission a ‘Fourth Category’ of Punishment?, Virtuosity Legal (Online Blog) (9 Jan., 2026)

Kishwar, S.D. & Nahar, A., Ecology by Classification: The Aravalli Judgment and the Limits of Administrative Labels, I•CONnect (Online Blog) (7 Jan., 2026).

Kishwar, S.D., A Moment of Moral Reckoning: India’s Outrage and the Urgent Need to Rethink Minority Safety Across South Asia, PoliLegal (Online Blog) (29 Dec., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D. & Saraswat, V., Torn Between Territorialism and Tradition: A Case for Recognition of Rights of Tamil Transboundary Fishing Communities, Groningen Journal of International Law (Online Blog) (22 Nov., 2025). 

Kishwar, S.D., Vijaywargi, N. & Ali, A.S., Climate Resilience as Policy: A Case for the Global South,  Washington International Law Journal (Online Blog) (15 Oct., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D. & Parmaar, S. S., Coding the Climate: Digital Colonialism in Global Environmental Governance, Kautilya Society, NUSRL Ranchi (Online Blog) (3 Sept., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D., Gupta, S., Parmaar, S.S. & Sharma, N., Burial Rights and Religious Freedom in India: A Constitutional Analysis of Ramesh Baghel v. State of Chhattisgarh, PoliLegal (Online Blog) (29 Aug., 2025). 

Kishwar, S.D., The Demolishing Line of Professionalism: The “you don’t belong here” posts of LinkedIn, Virtuosity Legal – Postcards (Online Blog) (9 Aug., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D. & Saraswat, K., State Control and Digital Dispossession: A Critique of the UMEED Rules, 2025, Law Log Brief (NALSAR, Online Blog) (24 Jul., 2025). 

Kishwar, S.D., Khatoon, S. & Vatsa, K., Revisiting Right to Information in India: Is the DPDP Act counterproductive to RTI Act?, Oxford Human Rights Hub (Online Blog) (11 Jul., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D., Climate Change and the Complexities of Migration and Immobility in India, Virtuosity Legal (Online Blog) (22 Apr., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D. & Khatoon, S., LLMs and IP Laws: The Battle for Ownership, Lex Vedika (Online Blog) (1 Apr., 2025).

Kishwar, S.D. & Agrawal, S., Promoting Sustainability in Indian Textile Industry: A Legal Perspective, Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Collective (flagship blog, Maharashtra National Law University) (Online Blog) (7 Mar., 2025). 

Kishwar, S.D., Vatsa, K. & Khatoon, S., Safeguarding the Green Heart: India’s Initiatives in Preserving Seagrass Meadows in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy – BCOLP (Online Blog) (6 Apr., 2024).

Kishwar S.D. & Khatoon, S., Assam Child Marriage Crackdown: A Revisit, Bait for Debate (Online Blog) (27 Mar., 2023).

Kishwar, S.D. & Nangia, S., Space Debris as an Environmental Pollutant: Conceptualising Ramifications and Solutions [Part I & Part II], Lex Ad Coelum, NUJS (Online Blog) (24 Mar., 2023).

Kishwar, S.D., Does secularism mandate neutrality─ Comments on the Karnataka hijabophobia, Legis Nations (Online Blog) (25 Feb., 2022).

Kishwar, S.D., Digital Violence in Online Romantic Relationships: Love Safer this Lockdown, Legal Bites (Online Blog) (28 Jan., 2022).

Kishwar, S.D., Manderna, M.K., Vatsa, K. Agarwal, M & Shrawani, Navigating Cyberintimacy: Vulnerabilities, Abuse, and the Need for Legal Reform in Online Dating, in Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice (Madelyn Detloff ed., Oxford University Press, 2026).

Kishwar, S.D. & Kashyap, S., Beyond the Traditional Family: Constitutional Challenges to Heteronormative Kinship Structures, in Family Law at the Crossroads: Tradition, Reform, and Constitutional Morality (Dr. Karunesh Shukla et al. eds., Integrity Education: New Delhi, 2026). ISBN: 978-81-992925-7-4

Kishwar, S.D., Haris, M., Sethi, S., Rao, A. & Alvi, Y., From Dietary Rights to Discrimination: Islamophobia and the Shrinking Space for Halal in India, Religion & Human Rights (Scopus-Indexed, Q2), Vol. 20, 2025. ISSN: 1871-0328.

Kishwar, S.D., Sahani, J.S. & Tyagi, S., Navigating India’s Draft DPDP Rules 2025: Implementation Challenges in Protecting Children’s Personal Data, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy (Scopus-Indexed, Q3), Vol. 8, No. 2, 2025. ISSN: 2398-1687.

Kishwar, S.D., Dash, A., Manderna, M.K., Vatsa, K. and Sharma, S., The Stitches That Hurt Her Soul: Assessing the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation as a Violation of Human Rights of Women in India, Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (Scopus-Indexed, Q1), 24 Oct., 2025. ISSN: 2365-1792.

Kishwar, S.D., Tripathi, A., Poddar, D. & Khurana, B., Regulating Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: Privacy, Policy, and Global Regulatory Challenges, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy (Scopus-Indexed, Q3), Vol. 8, No. 1, 2025. ISSN: 2398-1687.

Kishwar, S.D., Vijaywargi, N. & Saraswat, V., Article 19(1)(a), Third-Party Apps, and the “Right to Truth” post Kaushal Kishore: A Constitutional Analysis, Your Voice Magazine (The Dialogue Box Official), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2025. ISSN: 2583-7184.

Kishwar, S.D., Saraswat, V. & Agarwal, R., Exploring the True Shade of Green: A Critical Examination of the Central Consumer Protection Authority’s Guidelines on Corporate Greenwashing, International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice (Scopus-Indexed, Q4), Vol. 12, No. 3, 2024. ISSN: 2347-2731.

Bhardwaj, C., Kishwar, S.D., Khurana, B., Manderna, M.K. &Vatsa, K., Contextualizing the Application of the Milieudefensie v. Royal Dutch Shell Decision in Indian Climate Change Litigation: Possibilities and Challenges, Sustainability and Climate Change (Scopus-Indexed, Q3), 20 Feb., 2024. ISSN: 2692-2924.

Kishwar, S.D., Khatoon, S., Vatsa, K., Manderna, M.K. & Kapur, P., Rise of Digital Antifeminism in the Global South: Assessing Causal and Remedial Prospects of Gender-Neutral Laws, Indian Journal of International Studies (Flagship journal, Aligarh Muslim University), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2024. ISSN: 0020-8817.

Kishwar, S.D., Singh, S. & Nandal, H., Adjudication on issues of culture in India: In conversation with Advocate Shadan Farasat, Jindal Global Law Review (Scopus-Indexed, Q4), Vol. 14, 2023. ISSN: 2364-4869.

Kishwar, S.D., The (Un)Holy Punishments - A Critical Account of Islamic Extremism in Pakistani and Maldivian Laws, Sri Lanka Journal of International Law, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023. ISSN: 1391-5568.

Kishwar, S.D., The Persisting Menace of Child Marriage: An Account of Non-Legal Factors Contributing to Ineffectiveness of Legal Framework, The Age of Human Rights Journal (Scopus-Indexed, Q3), Vol 19, Dec., 2022. ISSN: 2340-9592.

Kishwar, S.D. & Z. Ali, Pandemic’s legal wrath: Assessing the legal compliance issues faced by the food and non-food retail sectors, International Journal of Recent Research Aspects, Vol. 9(1), Apr., 2022. ISSN: 2349-7688.

Kishwar, S.D., Access to Justice: A Right Only on Paper?, in Access to Justice: Need for Reforms (Hamza Khan et al. eds., Law Society, Aligarh Muslim University: Murshidabad, 2018). ISBN: 978-93-5311-195-4.

Kishwar, S.D., Reform in Judicial System: The much-needed makeover, Journal of Legal Studies & Research, Vol. 3(6), Dec., 2017. ISSN: 2455-2437.

Kishwar, S.D., Wages: A Legal Overview to the Lifeline of Labours, Journal of Legal & Political Thought, Vol. 2, Nov., 2017. ISSN: 2504-7167.

Kishwar, S.D., The Conflict between Cattle Rules, 2017 and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, Int’l Journal of Legal Insight, Vol. 4(1), May 2017. ISSN: 2456-3595.

Kishwar, S.D., Legalising Prostitution in India: Myth or Reality, Int’l Journal of Legal & Allied Issues, Vol. 3 (5), Sept., 2017. ISSN: 2454-1273.

Kishwar, S.D., Relation of Geneva Convention with India: An Interpretation of Challenges faced by Humanitarian Laws in relation with Kashmir War, South Asian Journal of Law & Human Rights, Vol. III(I), Jul., 2017). ISSN: 2518-6159.

Kishwar, S.D., Resolution of Constitutional Conflicts in India by application of Principle of Harmonious Construction, Int’l Journal of Complexities in Modern Society, Vol. I (I), Aug., 2017. ISSN: 2256-2532.

Kishwar, S.D., Tracing the Development of System of Tribunals in India: A Special Reference to Finance Act, 2017, Journal on Contemporary Issues of Law, Vol. III (VII), Jul., 2017. ISSN: 2455-4782.

Kishwar, S.D., Terror in the virtual world: Cyber Terrorism, Int’l Journal of Legal Research, Vol. III (IV), Jun., 2017. ISSN: 2349-8463.

Kishwar, S.D., Shreya Singhal v. Union of India: The case that redefined Freedom of Speech and Expression, Just Lex Talks, Vol. II(II), Apr.-May, 2017. ISSN: 2455-2429.

Kishwar, S.D., Domestic Violence against Women: A Legislative and Judicial Study of the Cry of a Woman, Stree: Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 8, 2016. ISSN: 0976-0725.

Kishwar, S.D., Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 & its impact on CrPC, Legal Desire Int’l Journal on Law, Issue VI, Jan.-Apr., 2016. ISSN: 2347-3525.

Kishwar, S.D., The Concept of One Person Company under Companies Act, 2013, in Companies Act, 2013: Beginning of a New Era (1st edn., Dr. Pradip Kumar Das ed., Manav Prakashan: Kolkata, 2014). ISBN: 978-93-80332-95-6.
Email skishwar@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0001-6716-0728
Key Expertise Sanya's research endeavours aim to contribute to the understanding and resolution of critical issues in human rights, digital antifeminism, and environmental law. Through her publications and academic pursuits, she strives to influence policy and foster a social change.
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