Biography

Prof. Ishita Sharma is an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, where she teaches and researches with a particular focus on criminal law and the criminal justice system. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Commercial Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before entering academia, she gained practical experience through internships with several prominent international and national law firms.

At the heart of Prof. Sharma's academic work is a deep commitment to understanding how criminal justice operates - not merely as a system of rules, but as a social and institutional force with profound consequences for individuals and communities. She has developed multiple electives on the criminal justice system, with sustained attention to questions of punishment, penal reform, and alternatives to conventional incarceration - inviting students to engage critically with the purposes, failures, and possibilities of criminal justice in contemporary India and beyond. Her research interests sit at the intersection of criminal law, penology, and legal reform, interrogating whether existing frameworks of punishment serve the goals of justice, deterrence, and rehabilitation, and what more effective alternatives might look like.

Alongside her criminal law work, Prof. Sharma has a strong interest in property law and the broader role of regulatory frameworks and public policy in shaping legal institutions. These interests connect naturally to her teaching of core courses across criminal law, property law, intellectual property rights, contract law, and tort law.