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Almas is an internationally trained human rights lawyer. Her area of research includes constitutional law, equality and discrimination laws, intersectionality theory, decolonial theory, gender laws and international human rights law. She completed her DPhil (PhD) from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her thesis focused on intersectionality theory and constitutional law in employment and education in India.

She has previously worked with the Blavatnik School of Government, the Oxford Human Rights Hub, UNITAR, the UN International Law Commission, and DCAF – a security sector organisation in Geneva.

Jai has been teaching Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law at NLSIU since 2024. He previously worked for the Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR). He also co-managed the Supreme Court Observer, reporting on cases such as ‘Indian Young Lawyers Association’ and ‘Navtej Singh Johar’. After CLPR, he interned for the Chief Justice of India, Dr D Y Chandrachud.

He holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, Jai sat on the Board of Editors for the Cambridge Law Review. For his dissertation, he examined the limits of legal transplantation through an analysis of the indirect discrimination test in Lt. Cl. Nitisha’. He was awarded the Lizette Bentwich Prize by Trinity College for performance on examinations. His research interests lie in jurisprudence and public law.

Neha’s research interests include citizenship, border studies, bureaucracies, cross-border mobility, pastoralism, and multispecies ethnography. Her doctoral dissertation at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, examined the relationship between law, bureaucracy, and citizenship through the lens of Pakistani Hindu migrants in Rajasthan. Her work engages with socio-legal questions of citizenship practices, documentary regimes and borders, using interdisciplinary and ethnographic approaches.

Prior to joining NLSIU, Neha taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has also served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the IIT, Delhi.

After securing his MA from Delhi University, Chiangmong Khiamniungan completed his MPhil and PhD at the University of Hyderabad. His MPhil dissertation treated the interpretive disagreement between Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault on the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical notions of the nature of the self while his PhD thesis sought to develop an extended account of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s egalitarian imagination. 

His primary interest and expertise lie in political philosophy/intellectual history. He also takes a keen interest in Naga politics and history. He has published and presented papers on all these areas.

Atishya’s research interests lie at the intersection of judicial efficiency, procedural reforms, and gender rights. At NLSIU, she aims to bring her strong research background and practical policy experience into the classroom. She completed her LL.M. in Human Rights Law at the University of Nottingham, where she was awarded the Developing Solutions Masters Scholarship.

Prior to joining NLSIU, Atishya worked extensively in the fields of public policy and judicial reform. Through her roles at organisations such as DAKSH and the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, she has focussed on bridging the gap between law, technology, and policy. Her work has involved close engagement with judicial and government stakeholders to re-engineer administrative processes, simplify procedural rules, and improve overall access to justice in Indian courts.