Biography

Surabhi Bhandari is an Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Jindal Global Law School. She has an LLB (Hons.) degree from Cardiff University, a Russel Group university in Wales, United Kingdom and a Master of Arts (LPC with Business) from BPP University, London. In 2022, she completed her LLM degree in General Legal Studies from Jindal Global Law School and graduated as a gold medalist and the recipient of the prestigious Nani Palkhivala Award for all-round performance.

Following the completion of her undergraduate degree, Surabhi joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in New Delhi and worked in their intellectual property laws practice. She has worked on multiple advisory, transactional and contentious matters relating to copyright laws, trade mark laws and patent laws.

Surabhi’s academic work is centred on mental health law, human rights, and the relationship between law and lived experience. Since 2024, she has been teaching an elective on Mental Health Laws, through which she engages students with questions of autonomy, care, capacity, institutionalisation, stigma, and access to justice. Across her teaching and research, her scholarship remains tied together by a central concern: the human being and the shared fabric of humanity.

Surabhi is currently pursuing her PhD at Monash University, Australia.