JGLS hires 64 more law faculty, 13 from NLUs, 2 assistant profs • Total 206 hires in 2020

JGLS Sonepat has announced the joining of another 64 faculty members to its law school in January 2021.

This is in addition to its previous round of 103 new law school hires in September 2020, and the 104 new teachers it had hired in February 2020.

In an internal announcement sent to students and faculty, founding JGU vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Raj Kumar announced the 64 hires in addition to 48 other faculty members hired for its non-law schools: “With the addition of new faculty members, JGU has 832 faculty members including 131 Academic Tutors and TRIP Fellows across ten schools.”

“It is also a fascinating achievement for JGU that 60% of our faculty members have international qualifications from the leading universities of the world,” he added. A total of 69% of all the new faculty members were women.

The latest January 2021 hires include a total of 112 new members across the entire Jindal Global University, of whom 65 are with the law school.

Out of those 65, two are assistant professors while the rest are lecturers (7), assistant lecturers (18) and more than half (37) are academic tutors and fellows under its Teaching & Research for Intellectual Pursuit (TIRP) programme, which it had launched out in July 2020 to provide academic career opportunities to graduates in the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two new assistant profs

The two assistant professors are Prof Aakanksha Kumar and Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan.

Kumar had most recently been an assistant professor at Nalsar Hyderabad. She is an 2012 HNLU Raipur LLB graduate with an LLM National University of Singapore, and has been a PhD candidate at NLU Jodhpur since 2016.

Ranganathan had been research assistant at the University of Texas immediately before joining JGLS and holds a 2010 LLB from NLSIU Bangalore and LLMs from Azim Premji University and The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar.

Even larger September 2020 recruitment

JGLS’ previous law school faculty recruitment of 103 from September 2020, which had been press released and widely covered at the time, also included two more senior hires: one full professor and dean of career services, Prof (Dr) Pankaj Gupta, and one associate professor Prof Courtenay Erin Morris.

The other September 2020 hires were spread across the assistant professor (11), lecturer (22), assistant lecturer (25) and academic tutor ranks (42.

See the full break-down of hires below for more details.

Across those two hiring intakes, 37 of the new faculty hires held LLB degrees from National Law Universities (NLUs) (which has always seemed a particularly interesting statistic to LI readers). Out of these 37, 10 were at lecturer seniority or above.

In addition to those numbers, 27 NLU graduates had been hired in February 2020.

By LLB college: 37 hires from NLUs, most from JGLS, Amity, CNLU

January 2021: 14 NLU LLBs, Amity on top

In the most recent January round of 64, the greatest number of recruits came from Amity University (a total of 9, or potentially up to 12 if including its parent, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi).

Delhi University provided another six recruits, while JGLS itself was the undergraduate alma mater for four.

National Law Universities (NLUs) contributed 13 hires, of whom the most senior ranks included two assistant professors and two lecturers, led numerically by:

• HNLU Raipur (total of 3: includes one assistant professor, Prof Aakanksha Kumar, and one lecturer),
• NUSRL Ranchi (2) and RMLNLU Lucknow (2),
• one each from DSNLU Visakhapatnam, NLIU Bhopal (lecturer), NLSIU Bangalore (assitant prof Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan), NLU Delhi, RGNUL Punjab and TNNLU Tiruchirapalli.

September 2020 hires: 25 NLU LLBs, JGLS largest number

In the September 2020 batch of 102 faculty recruits, JGLS itself was top of the list of LLB alma mater, providing 9 hires, followed by CNLU Patna (5), DSNLU Vishakhapatnam (4), and three each from Aligarh Muslim University, Delhi University, GGSIPU, NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur, Pune University, Delhi University and NUJS Kolkata.

A total of 24 had completed their LLB degrees at various NLUs, notably:

• 5 from CNLU,
• 4 from DSNLU,
• 3 from NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur and NUJS,
• 2 from RGNUL Patiala, and
• one each from GNLU Gandhinagar, HNLU, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLUJA Assam and RMLNLU Lucknow.

NLU Jodhpur provided two assistant professors (Prof Tariang Bdap Dkhar and Prof Julie Roy), while one assistant professor had completed an LLB from NLIU (Prof Chetna Shrivastava).

The lecturer ranks included one each from NLU Jodhpur, GNLU, NUJS, CNLU and NLIU.

Hires by position

As in September, the greatest number of hires are at the more junior end, which makes sense as the university has been expanding its online postgraduate programmes considerably and trying to keep up its faculty student ratio of around 8:1.

We have reached out for comment what the new BCI announcement that purports to scrap the one year LLM could mean, and will be publishing a fuller analysis and speculation shortly.

For reference about the below seniorities, JGLS’ “cost to university (CTU)” of a professor was around Rs 40 lakh per annum, while assistant professors were at around Rs 20 lakhs per annum, we had reported in February.

64 from January 2021

The faculty hires announced in January 2021 include:

• 2 Assistant Professors (AP),
• 7 Lecturers (L)
• 18 Assistant Lecturers (AL)
• 37 Academic Tutors (AT) & TRIPS fellows

103 from September 2020

The 103 new faculty members include:

• 1 Professor,
• 1 Associate Professor (Assoc Prof),
• 11 Assistant Professors,
• 22 Lecturers,
• 25 Assistant Lecturers and
• 42 Academic Tutors.

Full list of September 2020, January 2021 hires

Abbreviations:

• Assoc Professor (Assoc Prof);
• Assistant Professor (AL);
• Lecturer (L),
• Assistant Lecturer (AL),
• Academic Tutor (AT) + TRIP Fellow

January 2021 hires

Name	Position	LLB	Other degrees
Prof Aakanksha Kumar	AP (assistant prof)	HNLU Raipur	LLM (National University of Singapore); PhD candidate (NLU, Jodhpur)
Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan	AP (assistant prof)	NLSIU Bangalore	LLM (Azim Premji University); LLM (The University of Texas, Austin)
Aveek Chakravarty	L	NLIU Bhopal	LLM (University of Turin and the International Training Centre of the ILO, Italy); PhD candidate (University of Turin, Italy)
Sherin Sarah Philip	L	Indore Institute of Law Indore	LLM (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Nawal M I Hend	L	Birzeit University Palestine	LLM (Penn State Law)
Sana Javed	L	Pune University	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
R Saxena	L	University of Delhi	LLM (University of Pennsylvania)
Shantanu Kanade	L	HNLU Raipur	MA (OP Jindal Global University); LLM (Leiden University)
Shaurya Upadhyay	L	University of Delhi	LLM (London School of Economics, London)
Pallavi Rajpal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Shradha Prasad	AL	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Monika Mulchandani	AL	GH Raisoni Law College Nagpur	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Subhrajit Chanda	AL	Amity University	LLM (UPES, Dehradun); LLM (Nottingham Trent University); PhD candidate (GD Goenka University)
Nikunj Kulshreshtha	AL	University of Delhi	BBA (M S University, Tamil Nadu); LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Apoorvi Jha	AL	OP Jindal Global University	LLM; Master in Global Sports Management (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía, Spain)
Pratik Purswani	AL	Symbiosis Pune	BSc (Singhania University); MA (NALSAR, Hyderabad); LLM (Leiden University)
Arshia Sana	AL	RMLNLU Lucknow	LLM (HNLU, Raipur); LLM (University of Westminster)
Bhavya Tandon	AL	KIIT University Bhubaneshwar	LLM (University of Edinburgh)
Ritesh Bajaj	AL	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	LLM (Maastricht University)
Ashiv Choudhary	AL	University of Jammu	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
**Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar	AL	Central University of South Bihar	LLM (Penn State Law); LLM (University of Leeds)
Smera Kumar	AL	Amity University	BA (University of Delhi); LLM (University of Kent)
Isha Das	AL	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	LLM (University College London)
Saksham Shukla	AL	Amity University	LLM (University of Bristol)
Aj Agrawal	AL	RMLNLU Lucknow	LLM (SOAS University of London)
Katyayani Sinha	AL	OP Jindal Global University	LLM (SOAS University of London)
Aayushi Singh	AL	Symbiosis Pune	LLM (National University of Singapore); LLM (IHEID, Geneva)
Poornima Hemant Narvekar	AT + TRIP	Shahaji Law College Kolhapur	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
SP Ezhiloviya	AT + TRIP	TNNLU Tiruchirapalli	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Priyanka Biswas	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Akshata A Ahire	AT + TRIP	University of Mumbai	LLB (New Law College, University of Mumbai); LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Ajay Maherchandani	AT + TRIP	University of Mumbai	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Utkarsh Mishra	AT + TRIP	DSNLU Visakhapatnam	LLM (NLIU, Bhopal)
Bhanu Tanwar	AT + TRIP	NLU Delhi	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Manisha Priyadarshni Bhagat	AT + TRIP	NUSRL Ranchi	LLM (TISS Mumbai)
Vishakha Sakharkar	AT + TRIP	HNLU Raipur	LLM (NALSAR, Hyderabad)
Aditya Agrawal	AT + TRIP	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Deepayan Malaviya	AT + TRIP	Faculty of Law University of Lucknow	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Shruti Sahni	AT + TRIP	UPES Dehradun	LLM (RGNUL, Punjab)
Shashank Maheshwari	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Vijay K Tyagi	AT + TRIP	University of Delhi	BSc (University of Delhi); LLM (ILI, Delhi)
Hemendra Singh	AT + TRIP	RGNUL Punjab	LLM (NLU, Jodhpur)
Shyamali Kumar	AT + TRIP	Nirma University	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Upasana Khattri	AT + TRIP	Banasthali University	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Priyanka Nair	AT + TRIP	Kerala University	BA (University of Delhi); LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Paridhi Sharma	AT + TRIP	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	LLM (NLIU, Bhopal)
Karan Goyal	AT + TRIP	Bcom LLB Punjab University	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Priya Kumari	AT + TRIP	NUSRL Ranchi	LLM (NLU, Jodhpur)
Kirt Agarwal	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Shivani Kowadkar	AT + TRIP		BA (St Xavier’s College, Mumbai); MA (TISS, Mumbai)
Nandini Sharma	AT + TRIP	University of Rajasthan	LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore)
Blessan M	AT + TRIP	IIT Kharagpur	BTech (Sathyabama University, Chennai); LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore)
Nishtha Pant	AT + TRIP	Panjab University	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Prachi Tyagi	AT + TRIP	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Sanyukta Saxena	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Sneha Hooda	AT + TRIP	University of Delhi	BSc (Amity University); LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Saheli Chakraborty	AT + TRIP	Calcutta University	LLM (WBNUJS, Kolkata)
Sanskriti Kadiyan	AT + TRIP	CCS University Meerut	LLM (OP Jindal Global University)
**Nimmy Saira Zachariah	AT + TRIP	University of Kerala	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Shalinee Vishwakarma	AT + TRIP	Dr DY Patil College of Law University of Mumbai	LLM (OP Jindal Global University)
Srutee Badu	AT + TRIP	OP Jindal Global University	LLM (NLU, Odisha)
Akriti Kaushik	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (Symbiosis Pune)
Tripti Bhushan	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (HNLU, Raipur)
Digvijay	AT + TRIP	University of Delhi	BE (Panjab University); LLM (SGT University); PhD candidate (OPJS University)

September 2020 hires

Name	Position	LLB	LLM	Other Qualifications
Prof (Dr) Pankaj Gupta	Prof; dean career services			CMA; Fellow of ICAI; MCom; PhD (University of Lucknow); GCPCL (Harvard University)
Prof Courtenay Erin Morris	Assoc. Prof			BA (Cornell University); JD (University of Michigan)
Prof Raphael Lorenzo Aguiling Pangalangan	AP & Associate Dean		University of Cambridge	BA; JD (University of the Philippines);MSt (University of Oxford)
Prof (Dr) Chisom Ubabukoh	AP			BTech (Federal University of Technology, Nigeria); MSc; PhD (University of Manchester)
Prof (Dr) Sagnik Dutta	AP			BA (University of Calcutta); MA (University of Delhi); MA (SOAS University of London); PhD (University of Cambridge)
Prof (Dr) Max Steuer	AP	Comenius University Slovakia	University of Cambridge	BA (Comenius University, Slovakia); MA (Central European University); PhD (Comenius University, Slovakia)
Prof Christian Sopuruchi Godsfriend	AP	Imo State University	Nnamdi Azikiwe University and SOAS University of London	BL (Nigerian Law School)
Prof Rajesh NVC	AP			MSc (IIT Kharagpur); MBA (IIM Calcutta); FPM candidate (IIM Indore)
[Correction: Prof Aakanksha Kumar joined only later]	[AP]	[HNLU Raipur]	[National University of Singapore]	[PhD candidate (NLU, Jodhpur)]
Prof Pragya Parijat Singh	AP	Delhi University	University of Cambridge	BA (University of Delhi)
Prof Chetna Shrivastava	AP	NLIU Bhopal	University of Cambridge	BCL (University of Oxford)
Prof Tariang Bdap Dkhar	AP	NLU Jodhpur	SOAS University of London
Prof Nishtha Khurana	AP	University of Delhi	University of Cambridge
Prof Julie Roy	AP	NLU Jodhpur		BCL (University of Oxford)
Mr Abhishek Rana	L	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Shachi Jain	L	Government Law College Mumbai	National University of Singapore	CS (ICSI)
Ms Nishtha Singh	L	Army Institute of Law Mohali	NALSAR, Hyderabad	PhD candidate (NALSAR, Hyderabad)
Ms Swasti Gupta	L	OP Jindal Global University	University of Hamburg and Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Mr Mazyar Ahmad	L	University of Delhi	University of Southampton	BSc (Nautical Science) (IGNOU, Delhi); MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
Ms Pauline L. Forje	L	Kingston University	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Ishita Kumar	L	NLU Jodhpur	SOAS University of London
Mr Raunaq Jaiswal	L	Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University Pune	OP Jindal Global University and Central European University
Ms Nandita Krishna	L	Christ University Bangalore	SOAS University of London
Ms Srimati Ghosal	L			BA (Hons); MA (Presidency University, Kolkata); MPhil (University of Cambridge)
Ms Sanskriti Sanghi	L	GNLU Gandhinagar	University of Cambridge
Mr Lewis Njabulo Sibanda	L	University of South Africa	University of Sussex
Ms Dhyuthi Velugula	L	University of Kent	London School of Economics, London
Mr Avantik Tamta	L	WBNUJS Kolkata	University of Cambridge
Ms Aakriti Tripathi	L	CNLU Patna	University of Cambridge
Ms Raushan Tara Jaswal	L	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	University of Cambridge
Ms Anjali Sharma	L			BCom (Patna Women’s College);PGDM (Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna); FPM candidate (IIM Indore)
Ms Oiswarjya Basu	L	University of Calcutta	SOAS University of London
Ms Manika Bora	L			BA (University of Delhi); MA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi); MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi); PhD candidate (NIEPA, New Delhi)
Ms Surabhi Singh	L	NLIU Bhopal	University of Toronto
Ms Avaantika Chawla	L	OP Jindal Global University	Leiden University
Ms Sarni Jain	L			BA; MA (University of Jammu); PhD (OP Jindal Global University)
Mr Shoaib Latif Khan	AL	University of Kashmir	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Shreya Tewari	AL	RGNUL Punjab	London School of Economics, London
Ms Priya Garg	AL	WBNUJS Kolkata		BCL (University of Oxford)
Mr Animesh bordoloi	AL	NLUJA Assam	National University of Singapore
Ms M. Gopal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	University of Nottingham
Ms Pratibha Tandon	AL	Pune University	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi	JSD candidate (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
Ms Mitakshara Goyal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	University of Cambridge
Ms Dhruvi Shah	AL	Pune University	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Harsh Mahaseth	AL	NALSAR Hyderabad	National University of Singapore
Ms Trupti Panigrahi	AL	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Shubhangi Srivastava	AL	NMIMS Mumbai	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Mohammad Nasar	AL	Aligarh Muslim University	University of Kent
Ms Jayanti Singh	AL	University of Delhi	London School of Economics, London	BA (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Mr Abhijit Saste	AL	ILS Pune	University of East Anglia
Ms Srishti Telang	AL	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	Maastricht University
Mr Shivanshu Sharma	AL	Symbiosis Pune	Cardiff University
Ms Tusharika Narwal	AL	Symbiosis Pune	Cardiff University
Ms Diksha Sanyal	AL	WBNUJS Kolkata	SOAS University of London
Ms Virangna Dhillon	AL	OP Jindal Global University	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Danai Spentzou	AL	University of Athens	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Avineet Singh Chawla	AL	Punjabi University Patiala	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Subhrajit Chanda	AL	Amity University	UPES, Dehradun and Nottingham Trent University	PhD candidate (GD Goenka University)
Ms Shradha Prasad	AL	KIIT University Bhubneshwar	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Monika Mulchandani	AL	GH Raisoni College Nagpur	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Pallavi Rajpal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Avantika Tiwari	AT	Faculty of Law Delhi University	Indian Law Institute, Delhi	BSc (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Mr Pranjal Khare	AT	RGNUL Punjab	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Vishakha Srivastava	AT	CNLU Patna	NALSAR, Hyderabad
Ms Ashima Sharma	AT	Army Institute of Law Mohali	GNLU, Gandhinagar	PhD candidate (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Ms Aparna Venkatachalam	AT	New Law College University of Mumbai	TISS, Mumbai	BA (University of Mumbai)
Ms Kshama Pandey	AT	Faculty of Law Banaras Hindu University	NLIU, Bhopal	BCom (Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Mr Satish Kumar	AT	CNLU Patna	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Shrishti Khare	AT	Dr Harisingh Gour University Sagar	NALSAR, Hyderabad	PhD candidate (NLIU, Bhopal)
Ms Akansha Yadav	AT	University of Allahabad	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Tulika Singh	AT	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Pushpita Dutta	AT	Mody University Sikar	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Priyanka Kushwah	AT	Nirma University	NLIU, Bhopal
Mr Aqa Raza	AT	Aligarh Muslim University	Aligarh Muslim University
Ms Meemansa Singh	AT	JSS Law College Mysore	TISS, Mumbai
Ms Sanjana Singh	AT	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	NLIU, Bhopal
Mr Ajmal K Ayoob	AT	Aligarh Muslim University	TISS, Mumbai
Mr Piyush Kumar Mishra	AT	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Manudeep Kaur	AT	Punjab University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Merilin Jacob	AT	Mar Gregorious College of Law Trivandrum	OP Jindal Global University
Mr Vikas BM	AT	School of Law SASTRA University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Stuti Lal	AT	CNLU Patna	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Ananya Singh	AT	OP Jindal Global University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Nishtha Kohli	AT	UPES Dehradun	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Paarth Naithani	AT	RMLNLU Lucknow	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Pranav Narang	AT	OP Jindal Global University	OP Jindal Global University	BTech (ECE) (DAVIET, Jalandhar); PG Diploma in IPR and Patent Management (GIIP, Delhi)
Ms Sujata Newton	AT	KLE Society’s Law College Bengaluru	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Anuja R	AT	School of Law SASTRA University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Natalia Sunil Poojari	AT	Dr DY Patil College of Law	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Kriti Bhatnagar	AT	NMIMS Mumbai	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Himani Singh	AT	UPES Dehradun	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Poorvi Srivastava	AT	University of Lucknow	OP Jindal Global University	BCom (University of Lucknow)
Ms Shikha Patel	AT	Government Law College Mumbai	OP Jindal Global University	BCom (Mithibai College, University of Mumbai)
Mr Nishant Sheokand	AT	OP Jindal Global University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Rupali Bansal	AT	The NorthCap University Gurugram	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Deepa Walia	AT	Punjab University	OP Jindal Global University	BA (Hons) (Punjab University)
Mr Vishal Kumar Rai	AT	Law College Dehradun	OP Jindal Global University
Mr Rajat Shukla	AT	Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University Pune	OP Jindal Global University
Mr Deepam Rangwani	AT	Pune University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Swati Yadav	AT	Delhi University	TISS, Mumbai	BA (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Ms Kriti Bhatnagar	AT	NLIU Bhopal	GNLU, Gandhinagar
Ms Bhavya Singh	AT	CNLU Patna	CNLU, Patna
Mr Anurag Sharma	AT	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	NLIU, Bhopal