Prof. Kamala Sankaran
Professor of Law, Ford Foundation Chair Professor in Public Interest Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
Prof. Kamala Sankaran completed her undergraduate degree in Economics (Hons.) from Miranda House, followed by degrees in Law (LL.B., LL.M., and Ph.D) from the University of Delhi. She has previously served as a Professor at the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, the Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu National Law University, Tiruchirappalli, as well as a Research Professor, Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. She has also been a Visiting South Asian Research Fellow, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford University, and a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa.
Prof. Sankaran has been a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), ILO, since 2018. Her research interests include constitutional law, international labor standards, and the regulation of work. Her books include Freedom of Association in India and International Labour Standards (LexisnexisButterworthsWadhwa, 2009), Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation, Fudge, McCrystal and Sankaran eds.(Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012), and Affirmative Action: A View from the Global South, Dupper and Sankaran eds., (Sun Media, Stellenbosch, 2014). She is a member of the Editorial Team, University of Oxford’s Human Rights Hub Journal, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics, and has served as Editor of the Delhi Law Review.