Prof. (Dr.) Arpita Gupta

• Arpita Gupta, ‘Mass Tort Litigation and Civil Justice in India: Bhopal and Beyond’ in Anne Bloom, David Engel, and Richard Jolly, eds., Research Handbook on Civil Justice, Research Handbooks in Law and Society Series (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2024)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘The Law of Unjust Enrichment Doctrine in India’ in W. Swain & S. Peari eds., Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine and Theory (Oxford, 2023)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘The Evolving Contours of Private Pro Bono Practice in India: Local and Global Contexts’ in S. Cummings, F. De Sa e Silva, and L. Trubek eds., Global Pro Bono: Causes, Consequences and Contestation (Cambridge 2022)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘Regulating Microfinance for Financial Inclusion & Development: A Chronological Analysis of Microfinance Regulation in India,’ 49 Ilkam Law Review 109-136 (2021)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘Mass Tort Jurisprudence and Critical Epistemologies of Risk: Dissolution of Public-Private Divide in the Indian Mass Tort Law,’ 40 Liverpool Law Review 227-252 (2019)
• Arpita Gupta & Shrivridhi Shukla, ‘Social Welfare in India,’ Research Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford, 2019)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘Pro Bono and the Corporate Legal Sector in India,’ in D. B. Wilkins, V. S. Khanna & D. M. Trubek eds., The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society (Cambridge 2017)
• Arpita Gupta, Vikramaditya S. Khanna and David B. Wilkins, ‘Overview of Legal Practice in India and the Indian Legal Profession,’ in D. B. Wilkins, V. S. Khanna & D. M. Trubek eds., The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society (Cambridge 2017)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘Law and Development: A History in Three Moments,’ in U. Mattei & J. D. Haskell eds., Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law (Edward Elgar 2015)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘International Microtrade Regime: Structure and Financing,’ in Y. S. Lee ed., Microtrade: A New System of International Trade with Volunteerism Towards Poverty Elimination (London: Routledge 2013, reprint 2015)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘International Microtrade Regime: Structure and Financing,’ 5(1) Law and Development Review 3-28 (2012)
• Arpita Gupta, ‘Constitutional Pluralism: A Recent Trend in International Constitutional Law: European Origins and the Third World Concerns,’ 36 South African Yearbook of International Law 37-60 (2011)

• Torts Law Reform in Asia and Beyond, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, CCTL Obligations Lab Asia (2022)
• Rethinking Unjust Enrichment- Symposium, University of Western Australia (2022)
• Global Law Schools’ Summit 2021, O.P. Jindal Global University (2021)
• Current Legal Issues in India Conference, Institute of Legal Studies, Konkuk University, South Korea (2021)
• Mapping the Architecture of Private Financing for Sustainable Development in the Global Recovery Economy Conference, Warwick University, UK (2021)
• Tort-Based Lawyering in a Global Context Symposium, Indiana University, US (2020)
• The Plurality of Law and Development, Law and Development Research Network Annual Conference 2019, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2019)
• Law and Sustainable Development Conference, UC-Davis, US (2019)
• The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization Symposium, Mumbai (Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession) (2017)
• Global Pro Bono Conference, University of California-Los Angeles (2017)
• Inter-University Graduate Conference, Cornell Law School, US (2015)
• The 44th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US (2014)
• IGLP Conference, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, US (2014)
• IGLP Conference, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, US (2013)
• Globalization, Lawyers and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Conferences, Harvard Law School (Apr. 2012) & Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India (Dec. 2012)
• IGLP Conference, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, US (2012)
• The Law and Development Conference, Seattle University School of Law, US (2011)

Dr. Gupta is a Professor at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) and the Dean at the Office of the Dean of Research (Projects, Grants & Publications), O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU).

Dr. Gupta holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, where she graduated with honours and was awarded a certificate for academic excellence. Thereafter, she shifted her academic focus to the field of law, receiving a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Delhi and a Master of Laws from the Católica Global School of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon. At Católica, she was the recipient of the Católica Global School of Law Fellowship and specialized in the law of the European Union, building upon her stagiaire-ship experience at the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU), Luxembourg. Subsequently, Dr. Gupta pursued a second Master of Laws and a Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. Her doctoral work focused on the evolution and regulation of the institution of microfinance in India.

Dr. Gupta first joined JGU in 2010. She served as the Managing Editor of the Jindal Global Law Review and participated in the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE), a collaborative research project led by Harvard Law School’s Centre on the Legal Profession, wherein she conducted a pioneering research study on the corporate pro bono culture in India. Upon completion of her doctorate, Dr. Gupta re-joined the University in 2018 and has undertaken a variety of administrative responsibilities in addition to her teaching and research commitments. In her current role as the Dean of the University’s research office, Dr. Gupta is working towards enhancing the University’s research and publication profile along with creating and streamlining research-related policies and processes at the University. She is also passionate about teaching and teaches both public law and private law courses at JGLS. Her current teaching repertoire includes courses on Administrative Law and Civil Liability Law. Previously, she has also offered courses on Comparative Constitutional Law and WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanisms.

Dr. Gupta’s research interests include Law and Development, Civil Liability Law, Legal Profession, International Trade Law, and Comparative Law. Her work lies at the juncture of law, institutions, and development, with a two-fold emphasis on access to justice and access to finance. She is an alumna of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, and has presented her work at numerous leading conferences, workshops, and symposia. Her scholarship has been published in distinguished peer-reviewed legal journals and books. Her ongoing research includes studying the law of unjust enrichment in India in ‘Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine and Theory’ (forthcoming, OUP 2024) and regulation of advertising by health care institutions in India (an externally funded collaborative research project at the Centre for Research in Medicine, Law & Bioethics (CMLAB), JGU).

• Administrative Law and the Regulatory State
• Law of Torts and Consumer Protection
• Advanced Tort Law
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

• Civil Liability Law
• Law and Development
• Legal Profession
• International Trade Law
• Comparative Law