I am currently a Lecturer at the Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Australia. I've also worked as a human rights lawyer, and as a journalist covering legal and human rights issues in the past. My research interests include law and media, public law in South Asia, law and sexuality and constitutionalism from the Global South. My PhD thesis (University of New South Wales, 2023) was titled Facebook's Crowds and Publics: Law, Virality and the Regulation of Hate Speech Online in Contemporary India.
I have previously written on socio-legal issues in India for a number of magazines, newspapers and blogs. I have co-edited 'The Shifting Scales of Justice: The Supreme Court in Neo-liberal India' (Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, 2014) with Dr Mayur Suresh and edited 'Acts of Media: Law and Media in Contemporary India' (ICAS:MP-SAGE open access series, New Delhi, 2022). I have a law degree (bachelor's) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (2002) and (master's) from the Harvard Law School (2014), and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai (2003).
Experience
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2023–presentLecturer, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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2019–2023PhD Candidate, School of Global and Public Law, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, Sydney
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2017–2018Assistant Professor (Visiting, Full Time), School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University Delhi
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2015–2017Research Associate, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
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2006–2014Lawyer and Legal Researcher, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
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2005–2006Principal Correspondent, The Hindu Bureau, New Delhi
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2003–2005Reporter, Frontline Magazine, New Delhi
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