Dipika 

JAIN

Dipika Jain is currently an Associate Professor, Associate Dean and the Executive Director of the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology (C.H.L.E.T.) at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India. She received a Masters of Law (LL.M) from Harvard Law School in 2009. Dipika teaches and writes in the area of Family Law, Gender and Sexuality, Postcolonial Feminism, Public Health Law, Transgender Rights, Minor Jurisprudence, Constitution and Social Movements, Reproductive Justice and Socio Economic Rights.

Dipika’s research is on the intersection of Law and Marginalization. Her research was recently cited by the Supreme Court in the landmark decision of Navtej Johar vs. Union of India, 2018 (decriminalization of homosexuality). In 2018, she was designated as the first Research Associate Professor at JGLS. Her recent work appears in Harvard Journal of Law and Gender; Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice; American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law; Houston Journal of International Law and prestigious Indian journals including Seminar and Economics Political Weekly, among many other journals. She is currently working on the second co-edited volume titled, Desire and its Discontents: Queer Politics in Neoliberal India to be published by Zubaan and Chicago University Press in Fall, 2019.

As a founding faculty at JGLS, Dipika has played an instrumental role in setting up the Law School, which includes being the Head of its Academic Affairs Office. Before joining the academia, she had worked on precedent setting public interest litigations in the Supreme Court of India including Sampurna Bahrua vs. Union of India (petitioning for the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 in fifteen States in the country. The Act was amended as a result of this petition.), the Right to Food and Access to Antiretroviral Drugs Case.

Family Law, Gender and Sexuality, Postcolonial Feminism, Public Health Law, Transgender Rights, Minor Jurisprudence, Constitution and Social Movements, Reproductive Justice, Socio Economic Rights