Brief Bio

Sourav is Associate Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School of O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. At present, he is teaching at Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London and is the Associate Editor of Jindal Global Law Review.

His writing sits mainly on the junctions of Law and Society; Gender, Sexuality and Governance; Global Queer Movements and Law Reform. He has published in various national and international journals and newspapers. At JGLS, he teaches Constitutional Law, and Legal Methods to undergraduate law students and Comparative Public Law to Graduate law students. Additionally, he offers an elective course titled ‘Queering Kinship, Family, Intimate Relationships in Law, Theory and Practice’.

Formerly, he was Member of the School Board of the School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore for his research over the impact of family jurisprudence on queer lives in India. Formerly, a Felix Scholar, he received Master of Research (M.Res.) in Law and Society from the School of Law, University of Reading. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi and Bachelor of Arts and Law (B.A., LL.B.) from Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Courses taught at CTLS

• Comparative Public Law in South Asia (Fall 2024)
• Queering Family Law: How to use Transnational Law as an Advocacy Toolkit (Fall 2024)