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Dr. Gauba’s research draws upon the humanities, particularly history and philosophy, to study the relationship between law and the political. Her doctoral work introduces the concept of ‘haemopolitics’ to rethink the political community at the Indian constitutional founding.

She holds a doctorate from Birkbeck, University of London, and her postgraduate and graduate degrees in law from National Law University, Delhi. She has previously been associated with NLSIU as a visiting faculty. At NLSIU, she hopes to continue teaching critical legal philosophy, constitutional history, and political thought.

Hrishika holds a B.A. LL.B. from National Law School of India University, and a Master’s from Yale Law School. She has previously litigated at the Supreme Court of India as part of a chamber involved primarily in constitutional litigation and civil rights work. She has also served as a Law Clerk at the Supreme Court and led a study of capital sentencing practices in India as part of Project 39A. Her research interests, which she has pursued as part of her Master’s degree and subsequent Fellowship at the Melbourne Law School, include critiques of the legal form, the relationship between constitutions and rule-of-law ideologies, and the social lives of constitutional texts.

Ms. Kapoor is a generalist public international lawyer, and her scholarly agenda spans armed conflict, human rights, counterterrorism, and United Nations (UN) law.

She previously worked at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught human rights law and advocacy.  Students working under her supervision have drafted position papers on behalf of UN experts; convened coalitions of intergovernmental agencies, civil rights attorneys, and humanitarian organizations; and advised NGOs on litigation strategies before international tribunals.

She holds a B.A. LL.B. (Honours) degree from the National Law School of India University and an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. Her prior experience includes peace negotiations, transitional justice, and international criminal law.

Jyothsna holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Oxford and a BA LLB (Hons.) from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.

She is completing her DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford (Balliol College) under the supervision of Prof Rebecca Williams (Pembroke/Oxford) and Dr Giovanni De Gregorio (Catolica Global School of Law). Her thesis on the Regulation of Deepfakes adopts an interdisciplinary approach in understanding the multifaceted nature of deepfake harms and proposes legally sound and technically viable regulatory frameworks.

Her academic interests include law and technology, intellectual property law, data protection law, and platform liability in general. She is admitted to the Indian Bar and enrolled under the Karnataka State Bar Council (2019).

Rashi is trained in Law, Programming, and Data science. She joined the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, in 2024 as an Academic Fellow, where she taught and assisted in courses on Intellectual Property Law, and later worked as a Graduate Research Fellow at NLSIU’s JSW Centre for the Future of Law.

Her academic interests span intellectual property law, law and technology (particularly AI regulation and open-source software), data protection law, competition law and empirical legal studies. She is enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi.

She completed her BA LLB from the University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU; her LLM from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, with specialisation in Corporate and Commercial Law; and B.Sc. in Programming and Data Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.

Jai has been teaching Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law at NLSIU since 2024. He previously worked for the Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR). He also co-managed the Supreme Court Observer, reporting on cases such as ‘Indian Young Lawyers Association’ and ‘Navtej Singh Johar’. After CLPR, he interned for the Chief Justice of India, Dr D Y Chandrachud.

He holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, Jai sat on the Board of Editors for the Cambridge Law Review. For his dissertation, he examined the limits of legal transplantation through an analysis of the indirect discrimination test in Lt. Cl. Nitisha’. He was awarded the Lizette Bentwich Prize by Trinity College for performance on examinations. His research interests lie in jurisprudence and public law.

Almas is an internationally trained human rights lawyer. Her area of research includes constitutional law, equality and discrimination laws, intersectionality theory, decolonial theory, gender laws and international human rights law. She completed her DPhil (PhD) from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her thesis focused on intersectionality theory and constitutional law in employment and education in India.

She has previously worked with the Blavatnik School of Government, the Oxford Human Rights Hub, UNITAR, the UN International Law Commission, and DCAF – a security sector organisation in Geneva.