Biography

Sanjana Hooda is a Lecturer and Assistant Dean (Research) at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and humanities and include critical legal theory and alternative perspectives to law and legal scholarship, legal education and human rights law. In July 2024, she presented her work at the 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Seoul, Republic of Korea. 

She graduated with a First Class Honours in the Master of Laws program from the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At Melbourne Law School, she was a Member of the Melbourne Journal of International Law and served as the Production Editor of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review, affiliated with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion. During her coursework, her essay on asylum seekers - written for the subject “International Human Rights Law” - was included in the MLS Human Rights Program Student Working Paper Series.

She is an alumna of JGLS, having graduated in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Legislative Law Honours program on a merit-cum-means studentship. As a student at JGLS, she undertook several competitive teaching assistantships, avidly participated in moot court competitions and conducted an independent research project on the importance of critical legal education in the postcolonial context.

Prior to joining JGLS as an Assistant Lecturer, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Medicine, Law and Bioethics, JGU (2023–24) and the Centre for Justice, Law and Society at JGLS (2021–22)."