Biography

Kriti Sharma is presently an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School (since 2018) where she teaches criminal and administrative law, and an elective on the rights of indigenous peoples.  From November, 2024 to April, 2025 she served as Deputy Registrar at the Centre for Research and Planning, at the Supreme Court of India under then Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and headed the pendency project. She has been the faculty and co-ordinator for two human rights courses- the Jindal Harvard Summer Program at the Harvard University for the Jindal students and Global Poverty, Corruption and the Law: India Field Study, for students of Stanford Law School. 

She graduated from NALSAR University of Law, 2012 and, thereafter, clerked at the Delhi High Court. From 2013 to 2017 she was a Research Associate at Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She has worked extensively on the issues of the Adivasis, including training lawyers from the local Adivasi communities, along with other human rights work, including addressing the Standing Committee of the Parliament of India on the disability statutes and reporting the conditions of persons with psycho-social disabilities lodged in prisons and state institutions in Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar. In 2017, she received the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowship for Leadership Development to pursue the Stanford Programme for International Legal Studies and attained her JSM Degree.