Pranusha Kulkarni

Education

• B.B.A., LL.B., Karnataka State Law University’s Law School, Hubli.
• LL.M. in Access to Justice, TISS Mumbai.

Profile

Pranusha Kulkarni is a doctoral researcher at IIM Ahmedabad, specializing in governance of just sustainability transitions in the global south. She has previously taught Legal theory and Family laws at the Tamil Nadu National Law University, Trichy, during which time she has published her work in the interdisciplinary field of law and public policy.

As a part of her PhD, she is doing a justice-informed empirical field work at the Pavagada solar park in Karnataka, and is also involved in a larger computational social science project that makes use of justice as a multi-dimensional analytical frame to evaluate energy transition policies in India. She has also extensively published opinion pieces in renowned websites and literary magazines. She is a UGC-Junior Research Fellow in Law.

Research Interests

Her research interests lie at the intersection of law, public policy, business, and human rights, in the field of just sustainability transitions.

Publications

Opinion pieces

•  ಕಾನೂನು ಕಲಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ನೀತಿ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ಅಗತ್ಯತೆ (“The need for including Public Policy education in Legal education”). Avadhi – The only online Kannada literary magazine to have won Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award (October 17, 2023)
• ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾದಚಾರಿಣಿಯಾದ ಬಗೆ (“Being a pedestrian in Bengaluru”). Avadhi – The only online Kannada literary magazine to have won Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award (July 27, 2022)
• ಸಂಶೋದನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಶಣದ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೊಸ-ಉದಾರೀಕರಣದ ಪರಿಣಾಮಗಳು (Effects of neoliberalisation on research & higher education), Honalu (Aug 27, 2021).
• “Why you consume more energy than you actually need?”, Nash Notes (July 19, 2021).
•  “ಊಡ ಐಡಾ”, ಅ ಆ, ಹಾಗು ನಮ್ಮ ಆಂಗ್ಲ ಭಾಷಾ ಪ್ರೇಮ” (“Uda Aida”, A Aa, & our love towards English language”), Avadhi – The only online Kannada literary magazine to have won Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award (June 17, 2021).
• “Problems with Socio-Legal Research in India – No Inter-disciplinary Interaction”, iPleaders blog (Oct 5, 2017), tinyurl.com/5683kh2m
•  “What’s wrong with Legal Education in India”, iPleaders blog (Nov 26, 2016).
•  “Muslim Law: Need for Codification”, LawZ magazine (Oct 6, 2016).
• 5 Life lessons I learnt while trying to learn swimming”, Change your thoughts, Change your life – Steven Aitchison’s blog (Nov. 2015).
• “5 Reasons why we are more beautiful than we think we’re”, Change your thoughts, Change your life – Steven Aitchison’s blog (Nov. 2015).
• “Don’t let your bruised ego keep you down when you fall”, Tiny Buddha (June 2015)
• “An Open letter by a Woman: Body Shaming vs. Human Rights”, iPleaders blog (Oct 8, 2014).
• “Tryst with my Periods – Ms. Chandrala’s Lecture & its Aftermath”, Menstrupedia (Jan 8, 2014).
• “I’ll Marry My Mobile Phone”, Spark – The Literary Magazine (Nov. 2013).
• “To Sir, With Love!”, Live Law, (Oct 15, 2013).
• Coauthor: Raghul Sudheesh,”Is National Law School of India University a failure?”, Firstpost (Oct 14, 2011).

Peer-reviewed research articles

• “Multi-culturalism or Malestreamism: A Feminist Jurisprudential Critique of Muslim Law”, 4 NLSIU Journal of Law & Public Policy, 66–88 (2017).
• “Rethinking the Global Drug Jurisprudence – The Way Forward”, 1 KSLU Students’ Law Review, 38-49 (2014).
• Re-shaping the International Jurisprudential Framework of Nuclear Law”, 1(2) KSLU Journal, 286-306 (2013).
• “Web 2.0-enabled Legal Revolution in India – Why & How India will climb the ladder of astounding success”, In Access to Legal Information & Research in Digital Age (Eds: Singh, R., et al.), National Law University Press,145–164 (2012).