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Dr. Aparna Chandra

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Dr. Aparna Chandra is an Associate Professor of Law at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, where she also heads the M. K. Nambyar Chair on Constitutional Law. Aparna teaches and researches on constitutional law, comparative law, gender and the law, and judicial process reform. She has previously worked at the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, and the National Law University, Delhi, where she founded the Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance. 

Apart from her academic research and writings, Aparna has been involved in various law reform efforts and has undertaken government advisory work, especially on issues of human rights and civil liberties. She has assisted the Law Commission of India in various reports and has been appointed as amicus curiae by the Delhi High Court in matters involving the interface between constitutional and criminal laws. In 2017, she assisted the Government of India in drafting the National Report for India's Third Universal Periodic Review before the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Her current research focuses on rights adjudication by courts, gender and the law, and empirical legal studies. She has also co-authored the book Securing Reproductive Justice in India: A Casebook (2019).
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Sital Kalantry

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Sital Kalantry is a tenured Professor of Law and Associate Dean of International and Graduate Programs at Seattle University School of Law, where she founded and directs the India Center. She is an international lawyer, a regular media commentator and an expert in comparative law with a focus on human rights, feminist legal theory, and court systems in India and the U.S. She previously has been at Cornell Law School and the University of Chicago Law School.   

She has written over 40 scholarly articles and book chapters that have been published in major legal journals as well as peer-reviewed social sciences journals. Her writing has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of India. She is the author of the book Women's Human Rights And Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws In The United States And India (2017) and runs a podcast titled A Law in Common: India and the United States. She has won awards for her book, for her public interest work, and for her mentorship and support to women students.
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William H.J. Hubbard

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William H.J. Hubbard is a lawyer, economist, and expert in the empirical study of courts. He is Deputy Dean and the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Editor of the Journal of Legal Studies, Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and has served on the boards of directors of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and the American Law and Economics Association. He has written articles on courts, judicial behavior, and legal systems in India, the United States, the European Union, and Taiwan and is the author of a casebook, Civil Procedure: An Integrated Approach (2021).

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