Kriti Sharma

Education

• BA L.L.B., NALSAR University, Hyderabad
• Master of the Science of Law (JSM), Stanford University

Profile

Kriti Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (since 2018) where she teaches criminal and administrative law, and an elective on the rights of indigenous peoples. She has been the faculty and co-ordinator for two human rights courses: (i) the Jindal Harvard Summer Program at the Harvard University for Jindal students and (ii) Global Poverty, Corruption and the Law: India Field Study, for students of Stanford Law School.

Following her graduation from NALSAR University of Law, she clerked for a year with Justice Sanjiv Khanna at the Delhi High Court. She then worked as a Research Associate at Council for Social Development, Hyderabad under Professor and Director Kalpana Kannabiran. She has worked extensively on the issues of the Adivasis, including training lawyers from the local Adivasi communities, along with other human rights work. This includes 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.