Shrimoyee Ghosh

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Law and violence
  • Legal Documents and the Everyday State
  • Critical Kashmir Studies
  • Emergencies and Exceptional Jurisdictions

Biography

Shrimoyee is a lawyer and legal anthropologist, whose work focuses on questions of rights and justice, and the law’s relationship to everyday forms of subjectivity and violence. She has worked with local coalitions and organisations on a number of human rights documentation and litigation efforts in Kashmir, Mumbai and New Delhi. Her scholarly work has appeared in Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, Contributions to Indian Sociology and other academic journals. She is a member of LASSNET (Law and Social Sciences Network), the Critical Kashmir Studies scholarly collective and the Kashmir Scholars Advocacy and Consultative Network (KSCAN). She has a B.A LLB (2003) from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru; a Masters in Research (2006) from Birbeck School of Law, London and a Ph D (2017) from the Centre for Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has been the recipient of a Yale-Fox International Fellowship for her doctoral studies. 

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