Darshana Mitra

Education

BA LLB (Hons), WBNUJS, Kolkata
LLM, Columbia University, New York

Profile

Darshana has previously taught at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata, and has worked as a researcher at the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is also the co-founder and director of Parichay, a collaborative legal aid clinic that works on citizenship deprivation and statelessness in the state of Assam. At Columbia, she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a recipient of the Human Rights Fellowship, the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowship, and the 2019 Human Rights Institute Commendation for Leadership and Commitment in Human Rights.

Her interests lie in citizenship and immigration law, human rights law, gender, child rights, and clinical legal education. At NLSIU, Darshana hopes to establish a legal clinic on citizenship and statelessness in India.

Research Interests

Citizenship Law, Public Law, Child Rights.

Publications

• “From Citizen to Criminal: Citizenship Determination in India and the Limits of Due Process” The Leaflet, January 27, 2021
• Adavi L, Mitra, D. and Sreenivasa V., “Contestations over Public Spaces in Bangalore”, Seminar, June 2017
• Mitra D., “Environmentalism and the Urban Jungle- Conflicting rights and contradictory visions” in Fighting the tide. Human rights and environmental justice in the Global South, Dejusticia (August 2017)