Dr Shailesh Kumar

Overview

Qualifications

• B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) [First Class], Chanakya National Law University, Patna
• LL.M. (with Distinction in Dissertation), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
• M.Phil. (with Distinction in Dissertation), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• PhD Criminal Law, Birkbeck, University of London

Web profiles

• Google Scholar
• Personal Website
• Academia
• SSRN
• BIROn
• Research Gate

Professional activities

Editorial Board Member, The P39A Criminal Law Blog, New Delhi, India

Member, Core Committee, Sessions Organising Team and Media Promotion Team, Virtual Global Gathering, ‘Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders’, April 14-17, 2021.

Peer reviewer, Criminology & Criminal Justice, SAGE, UK. ISSN 1748-8958.

Peer reviewer, International Journal of Human Rights, Routledge Taylor & Francis, UK. ISSN 1364-2987.

Peer reviewer, Indian Law Review, Routledge Taylor & Francis, UK. Print ISSN: 2473-0580 Online ISSN: 2473-0599.

Peer reviewer, Journal of Indian Law and Society, WBNUJS, India. ISSN 2277-5552.

Professional memberships

• Law & Society Association, Amherst, MA, USA

Honours and awards

• Commonwealth Scholarship, CSCUK, FCDO, The UK Government, May 2017
• Ronnie Warrington Teaching Assistantship, Birkbeck Law School, University of London, August 2017
• Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, The Indian Government, May 2015

ORCID

0000-0002-7820-0518

Research

Research interests

• Child Sexual Violence & Access to Justice
• Youth Justice
• Penal & Prison Abolition
• Southern Criminology
• Caste, Race and State Violence
• Law & Visual Cultures
• Legal Ethnography
• Law & Emotion
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Law & Society in South Asia
• Decolonisation and Legal Education

Research clusters and groups

• Postgraduate Research Student Member, Critical Legal and Criminological Theory Research Cluster
• Postgraduate Research Student Member, Policy, Practice and Activism Research Cluster
• Postgraduate Research Student Member, Law and Humanities Research Cluster
• Postgraduate Research Student Member, Human Rights Research Cluster

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Legal Systems and Methods (LALA157S4)
• Legal Systems and Methods (Senior Status) (LALA158S6)
• Criminal Law (LALW056S4)
• Legal Methods and Skills (LALW126Z4)

Publications

External Repositories