Education CV
Education:
- PhD in Law, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge (2021-present)
- LLM, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge (2019-20)
- BA LLB, Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIP University (2013-18)
Scholarships and Prizes:
- Kenneth Law Essay Prize, for first-year paper titled ‘Towards an Information Theory of Law’, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge (2022)
- Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Cambridge International Scholarship, full-scholarship towards PhD, University of Cambridge (2021)
- St Edmund’s College Prize, for achieving first class in LL.M. examinations, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge (2020)
- Cambridge Trust Scholarship, partial scholarship towards LL.M., University of Cambridge (2019)
- Cornelia Sorabji Law Scholarship, partial scholarship towards BCL, University of Oxford (offered) (2019)
- University Gold Medal, GGSIP University for overall first rank in B.A. LL.B. across 8 colleges (2018)
Select Experience:
- Research Assistant, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2020-present)
- Research Sprint Participant (speculative fiction track), Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (Fall 2022)
- Project Manager, Cambridge Law Faculty Pro Bono Project, University of Cambridge (2021-22)
- General Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal (2019-20)
- Legal Research Fellow, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi (2018-2019)
- Principal Associate and Teaching Assistant, The Negotiation Academy (2017-19)
Teaching Experience:
- ‘Law, Technology, Society', LL.M. Workshops for the Economics of Law and Regulation course, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2020-22)
- ‘Inequality and Law’, LL.M. Workshops for the Economics of Law and Regulation course, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2020-22)
Fields of research
Law and Political Economy, Law and Society, Law and Technology, Futures of Work, Gender, Creative Methods
Research centres and interest groups
Law as code and power: towards an information theory of law
Summary
My first-year paper is an introduction to what I call the 'information theory of law'. It applies an external frame, C.E. Shannon’s information (or communication) theory, to law based on its positioning as a social system in Niklas Luhmann’s terms. Shannon’s frame and its shortcomings reveal how law interacts and co-evolves with its environment. By inquiring into the nature of law as an information system and how it encodes and shapes our identities (with a special focus on gender), I have arrived at a three-pronged conclusion. Law is a type of social information system that is exclusive, reflexive, and adaptive. From here on, I aim to test these claims through a combination of qualitative empirical research and creative practise-led/based methods.
Supervisors
Prof. Simon Deakin (supervisor), Dr. Jennifer Cobbe (advisor)