Dr. Debashri Sarkar, is a graduate of National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal. After completing her graduation, she pursued her interest in human rights and gender studies while working as a Research and Advocacy Officer at the Lawyers Collective, New Delhi. She was the Primary investigator on the Project funded by the Mac Arthur Foundation on Sex Selective Abortions in India: A Critical Study of the PCPNDT Act. She further went on to pursue her LL.M from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and was the batch topper. Thereafter, she joined academia and was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Gujarat National Law University Gandhinagar in 2008, where she worked for almost three years. She bagged the UGC Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship and completed her Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. Her Doctoral research was on Assisted Reproductive Techniques with specific reference to Commercial Surrogacy: The Emerging Socio-Legal Jurisprudence.
B.A.LL.B. (Hons.)- National Law Institute University, Bhopal-2005
LL.M.- University of Delhi-2008
UGC-NET -JRF
Ph.D. – University of Delhi-2015
- Family Laws
- Gender Laws
- Statutory Interprtation
Assisted Reproductive Techniques: Understanding the Jurisprudential Debate, Law, Development and Socio-Economic Policy (Challenges in the 21st Century India), ISBN: 93-5028-723-4 Eastern Book Company, 1st edition, 2012
Death by Choice Reconsidered in the Framework of the Devlin-Hart Debate, Journal of Law Teachers of India, Volume 6 (Issue 2) 2015-16 (ISSN:2231-1580)
Commercial Surrogacy: Comprehending the Language of ‘Rights’, Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, India Volume 15, 2016 (ISSN 0973-7596)
Determining Parentage in the Era of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Emerging Legal Challenges, Indian Law Review (Peer Reviewed Journal) Special Edition, Volume XIII, Issue 1, 2021 (ISSN 22297960)
Sex Workers in India: Examining their Situation in the Light of COVID-19 Pandemic, International Journal of Law, Management and Humanities, Vol. 5(3) 2022 [1971-1999].
Same Sex Unions and Emerging Questions in Family Laws Indian Law Review, Volume-XIII (2021), Peer Reviewed Journal (ISSN 22297960)
A Gendered Evaluation of the Leave Policies at Workplace with specific reference to Law Relating to Maternity Benefits International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, (An International Open Access, Peer-reviewed, Refereed Journal) Volume IX, Issue III, August 2022 (ISSN: 2349-5138)
‘Examining the Special Marriages Act, 1954 with specific reference to Same Sex and Queer Marriages’, in A. Lakshminath, A. Wadje and P. Lele (eds.) “The Contours of Personal Law – Religious Practices, Family Laws and Uniform Civil Code” LexisNexis, 2024 (ISBN 788197414251).
The Law Relating to Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace- An Unfinished Agenda, Indian Law Review, Volume-XV (2023), Peer Reviewed Journal (ISSN 2229-7960) pp. 55-88
Marking 50 Years of Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: The Evolution, Achievement and Need for Reform, CPJ Law Journal, Peer Reviewed, Vol. XVI, July-2024, (ISSN 0976-3562) pp.250-275
Invited as a Resource person in National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) Faridabad to deliver a session on “An Overview of Interpretation of Statutes” to Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Laws and Cyber Forensics to the CBIC (Custom & Excise) Officers on 22 November 2023.
Resource person in RSVP Naronha Academy of Administration and delivered special sessions several times throughout the year on the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
Paper presented at the One-Day International Conference on Emerging Global Dimensions of Human Rights in the Contemporary Era, Organized by NMIMS School of Law, Bengaluru and Boston University School of Law, in Bangalore on 21 July 2023. The paper was titled “A Decade of the Law Relating to Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace: Looking Back at the Journey and Paving the Future”. Adjudged as the Best Paper of the Conference.
Co-Chaired a Technical Session on the theme of Gender Injustice and Human Rights of Tribal Women in the National Seminar on Empowerment of Tribal Women in India: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives on the 7th and 8th of March, 2020, organized by the Gender Justice Cell in collaboration with the National Commission for Women
Key-note speaker on the subject of Abortion Politics in India and the Role of the Judiciary, February 15th 2020, Jagran Lakecity University
Legal Awareness and Training Workshop on Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace, organized by the Legal Aid Cell of NLIU conducted 2 sessions in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal in November 2019
Legal Awareness program titled “Humare Adhikar” organized by the Legal Aid Cell of NLIU and broadcasted by M.P. Doordarshan on 12th November 2019
Attended as a Consultant from Madhya Pradesh, the National Level Consultation of the National Commission of Women on Laws pertaining to Sexual harassment of Women at Workplace and Property Rights of Women organized by the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, March, 2019
Attended and presented a Paper titled: Surrogacy and International Law International Conference on International Law and Human Rights, organized by the Campus Law Center, Delhi University April 2019.
Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Law & Economics. The title of the paper Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Creation of Families and Evaluating the Market.
Delivered a special lecture on “Publication Ethics” to the Ph.D. Scholars at National Law University, Nagpur on 21 May 2022.
Delivered lecture as a Resource Person at the Capsule Style Training program in Child Justice addressing the Judges from Bhutan held in National Law University Jodhpur from 19 January 2022 to 21 January 2022.
Program Coordinator of One Day regional Consultation on Muslim Personal Law for the Western States of India, organized by the National Commission for Women in Collaboration with NLIU, Bhopal on January 10, 2023
- Personal Laws
- Statutory Interpretation
- International Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Gender and Law
- Sports Law
- Research and Publication Ethics
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