Education

• PhD, NALSAR, Hyderabad
• LLM, NALSAR, Hyderabad
• BA, LLB (Hons), NUSRL, Ranchi (Gold Medallist)

Profile

Garima has been associated with the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru since February 2025, where she currently teaches courses including Corporate Law I (Company Law), Corporate Law II (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law, Competition Law, and Foreign Exchange Regulation), and Financial Market Regulation. She has also contributed to teaching as a Visiting Faculty at NALSAR, Hyderabad.

Prior to joining academics, Garima worked with the Corporate Legal Department of HDFC Limited, Mumbai (Head Office) from 2015 to 2019, gaining meaningful experience in corporate and financial transactions. Driven by a strong inclination towards research and academia, she pursued her LL.M. from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, graduating in 2020. She subsequently completed her PhD in 2025 at NALSAR on the topic ‘Competition in Data-Driven Digital Markets: An Antitrust Analysis’.

Beyond her professional engagements, Garima enjoys reading and has a deep interest in music.

Publication

• Avtar Singh’s Banking and Negotiable Instruments (Revised 5th Edition), Eastern Book Company (2026) (Co-authored)
• Creditor Control and Shareholder Return: Rethinking Corporate Governance Across Insolvency and Securities Law, Journal on Corporate Law and Governance, National Law University, Jodhpur, Volume IX, Issue I (October 2026)
• The Dollar Goes In and the Rupee Comes Out: Enforcement Blind Spot in India’s IFSC, NLSBLR Blog  (September 09, 2026) (Co-authored).
• Investor Protection Reimagined: Ombudspersons, Charters, and the Limits of Redress, The NLS Blog (April 10, 2026) (Co-authored)
• Grounded flights, grounded rights: IndiGo and a dual regulatory scrutiny, Deccan Herald (opinion) (Jan 16, 2026) – authored by D. Sudhanshu Kumar and Dr. Garima Gupta.
• Reimagining Functional Narratives: Recoding the DNA of Corporate Social Responsibility, Asian Journal of Business Ethics, Springer (2024).
• Antitrust Concerns in the Age of Data-Driven Economies: The Need to Revive the ‘Essential Facilities Doctrine’, Liverpool Law Review (2023).
• Does ‘Big Data’ Provide A Competitive Advantage to Firms: An Antitrust Analysis, Asian Journal of Business Ethics, Springer (2022).
• ChatGPT and Digital Capitalism: Need for An Antidote of Competition Law, Curmudgeon Corner, AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication (2023).
• Antitrust Concerns Vis-À-Vis Disruptive Innovation-Takeaways for Competition Commission of India, Indian Journal of Law and Technology, NLSIU Bangalore (2023) (Co-authored).
• The Debate on ‘One Nation, One Language’, International Journal of Language & Law (2022).
• Student Evaluation at Law Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Purpose and Practice, Canadian Legal Education Annual Review (2022).

Research Project:

• Report: ‘Rethinking Digital Lending: A Whitepaper on Inclusion of NBFCs in the Credit Line on UPI Infrastructure’, the study was undertaken by the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, NLSIU Bengaluru and is funded by Technology Services Industry Association. (Co-authored)