Faculty

Jyothsna Gurumurthy

Assistant Professor (Law)

Teaching

Courses

Education

  • BA LLB (Hons.), NALSAR University of Law
  • Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction), University of Oxford

Profile

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.

At Oxford, Jyothsna was a tutor for Hertford College (teaching Copyright, Trademark and Allied Rights) and Stanford House (teaching Copyright Law), as well as a tutor for the Oxford Law Summer Programme and Immerse Education.

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).