Dr Shailesh Kumar
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Overview
Overview
Qualifications
- B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) [First Class], Chanakya National Law University, Patna
- LL.M. (with Distinction in Dissertation), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
- M.Phil. (with Distinction in Dissertation), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- PhD Criminal Law, Birkbeck, University of London
Web profiles
Professional activities
Editorial Board Member, The P39A Criminal Law Blog, New Delhi, India
Member, Core Committee, Sessions Organising Team and Media Promotion Team, Virtual Global Gathering, ‘Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders’, April 14-17, 2021.
Peer reviewer, Criminology & Criminal Justice, SAGE, UK. ISSN 1748-8958.
Peer reviewer, International Journal of Human Rights, Routledge Taylor & Francis, UK. ISSN 1364-2987.
Peer reviewer, Indian Law Review, Routledge Taylor & Francis, UK. Print ISSN: 2473-0580 Online ISSN: 2473-0599.
Peer reviewer, Journal of Indian Law and Society, WBNUJS, India. ISSN 2277-5552.
Professional memberships
Law & Society Association, Amherst, MA, USA
Honours and awards
- Commonwealth Scholarship, CSCUK, FCDO, The UK Government, May 2017
- Ronnie Warrington Teaching Assistantship, Birkbeck Law School, University of London, August 2017
- Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, The Indian Government, May 2015
ORCID
0000-0002-7820-0518 -
Research
Research
Research interests
- Child Sexual Violence & Access to Justice
- Youth Justice
- Penal & Prison Abolition
- Southern Criminology
- Caste, Race and State Violence
- Law & Visual Cultures
- Legal Ethnography
- Law & Emotion
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Law & Society in South Asia
- Decolonisation and Legal Education
Research clusters and groups
- Postgraduate Research Student Member, Critical Legal and Criminological Theory Research Cluster
- Postgraduate Research Student Member, Policy, Practice and Activism Research Cluster
- Postgraduate Research Student Member, Law and Humanities Research Cluster
- Postgraduate Research Student Member, Human Rights Research Cluster
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Constitutional and Administrative Law (LADD033S4)
- Constitutional & Administrative Law (Senior Status) (LADD060S6)
- Legal Systems and Methods (LALA157S4)
- Criminal Law (LALW056S4)
- Public Law (GDL) (LALW113H6)
- Criminal Law (GDL) (LALW114H6)
- Publications