Preeti Pratishruti Dash
Kleh Visiting Professor
Biography
Preeti Pratishruti Dash is a legal academic, whose research interests lie in criminal law and policy. Pratishruti Dash is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Gates-Cambridge Scholar. Her doctoral work focuses on the downsides of punitive approaches to sexual violence India.
Professor Pratishruti Dash has served as an Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India teaching courses on criminal law and leading seminars on violence against women. She has also worked as a research scholar at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi, where she worked and published on capital sentencing in India.
Pratishruti Dash’s academic qualifications include an LLB from National Law University, Odisha, where she was a gold medalist. She also holds LLM from Harvard Law School under the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowshp, and an MSc in criminology from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Roger Hood Prize and the Routledge Prize for her outstanding performance and dissertation.
Beyond her professional endeavors, Pratishruti Dash enjoys traveling, reading post-colonial and historical fiction, and exploring different cuisines.
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Challenging Carceral Feminism: Criminalization of Violence Against Women: LAW JD 681
This seminar is aimed at giving the students an overview of feminist approaches to criminal law, with emphasis on the feminist projects of criminalising violence against women. By mapping the extensive points of contact between feminist groups and the state on the questions of rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence, trafficking, and child sexual abuse, the seminar is geared towards critically evaluating the upsides and downsides of such engagement. Besides focus on American domestic criminal law, the seminar will also look at similar issues in other jurisdictions, particularly in the Global South. The seminar will also touch upon feminist interventions in international criminal law to address war-time rape. Further, the course will introduce students to arguments of abolition feminism and other forms of anti-carceral scholarship. UPPER-CLASS WRITING REQUIREMENT: Students may use this class to satisfy the requirement with a 6,000 word research paper. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2024: LAW JD 681 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2024| Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Preeti Pratishruti DashHaefner | LAW | 204 |