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B.A. LL.B (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

LL.M (Human Rights), University College London
 

Prof. Arijeet Ghosh

Associate Professor

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ORCID ID 0000-0002-1857-2571
Key Expertise Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Criminal Justice Institutions.

B.A. LL.B (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

LL.M (Human Rights), University College London
 

Biography

Prof. Arijeet Ghosh is a lawyer by education and has finished his B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) from Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. Subsequently, he went on to pursue his LL.M. with a specialisation in Human Rights from University College London and has successfully completed the same in 2016. He has professional experience of working as a consultant to the 21st Law Commission of India and has also worked Judicial Reforms Initiative at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a legal policy think tank, as a Research Fellow. Prior to joining Jindal Global Law School, he was working as a Project Officer with Prison Reforms Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. Arijeet has keen interest in working in the broader area of Public law, with specific focus on Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Criminal Justice Institutions.

Constitutional Law

Human Rights Law & Theory

Carcerality & Abolition: An Indian Perspective

Foundations of Human Rights

Introduction to World Legal Systems

Co-Author, “Marital Status Discrimination in India: Prospects and Possibilities,” in “Family Studies”, Oxford University Press, pp. 159-186, 2024, ISBN 9780198930723;

Author, “Invisible Identities: transgender persons, prisons and Preliminary Perspectives from India”, in “Transgender People Involved with Carceral Systems: International Perspectives,” Routledge, London, pp. 223-241, 2024, ISBN 9781003169796;

Author, “Abolishing Torture: Notes from a Law Classroom”, in Economic & Political Weekly, (Vol. 58, Issue No 41), October, 2023, (available at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/41/commentary/abolishing-torture.html (ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976);

Co-Author, “Abolishing Consummation: The Need to De-essentialise Sex within Marriage”, Indian Law Review, Vol 6, Issue, 3, 2022, pp. 331-351, DOI: 10.1080/24730580.2022.2074708 ;

Co-Author, “Queering Police and Prisons: Analysing Legal and Policy Gaps in India”, Journal: National Human Rights Commission, India, Vol. 18, 2019 (ISSN: 0973-7596);

Co-Author, “LGBTI+ people in deprivation of liberty: Towards Participatory and Inclusive Research and Policy Agendas in the Global Peripheries. A view from Brazil and India”, in Guilherme Gomes Ferreira & Caio Cesar Klein (Eds.), Sexuality and Gender in Prison: LGBTI + and its Passages for Criminal Justice, Editora Devires, 2019. (ISBN: 978-85-93646-38-6);

Co-Author, “How can Families be Imagined beyond Kinship and Marriage”, in Economic & Political Weekly, (Vol. 54, Issue No 45), November, 2019, (available at: https://www.epw.in/engage/article/how-can-families-be-imagined-beyond-kinship-and-marriage) (ISSN (online): 2349-8846);

Co-Author, “A Womb of One’s own: Privacy & Reproductive Rights”, in Economic & Political Weekly, (Vol. 52, Issue No. 42-43), October 2017, (available at: http://www.epw.in/engage/article/womb-ones-own-privacy-and-reproductive-rights) (ISSN (online): 2349-8846)
Email arijeet@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0002-1857-2571
Key Expertise Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Criminal Justice Institutions.
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