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B.A. (Lady Sri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi)

LL.B. (University of Delhi)

LL.M. (Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon)

LL.M.; S.J.D (University of Wisconsin Law School, US)

 

Prof. (Dr.) Arpita Gupta

Dean of Research, O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University) and Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Email agupta@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0001-8275-0152
Key Expertise Law and Development, Civil Liability Law, Legal Bioethics, Legal Profession, Legal History, Comparative Law

B.A. (Lady Sri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi)

LL.B. (University of Delhi)

LL.M. (Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon)

LL.M.; S.J.D (University of Wisconsin Law School, US)

 

Biography

Dr Gupta holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, where she graduated with honours and was awarded a certificate for academic excellence. Thereafter, she shifted her academic focus to the field of law, receiving a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Delhi. Building on her stagiaire experience at the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU), Luxembourg, she pursued a Master of Laws degree from the Católica Global School of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, and was a recipient of the prestigious Católica Global School of Law Fellowship. Subsequently, Dr Gupta pursued a second Master of Laws and a Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, where she was a recipient of the UW Graduate Fellowship from 2012-2018. Her doctoral work focused on the evolution and regulation of the institution of microfinance in India. 

Dr Gupta’s research interests include Law and Development, Civil Liability Law, Legal Bioethics, Legal Profession, International Trade Law, and Comparative Law. Her work lies at the juncture of law, institutions, and development, with a two-fold emphasis on access to justice and access to finance. She is also an alumna of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School, and has presented her work at numerous leading conferences, workshops, and symposia. Her scholarship has been published in distinguished peer-reviewed legal journals and books. Her ongoing research includes a project on the bioethics of medical advertising and a study on the evolution of Indian mass tort law through three distinct phases post-Bhopal disaster. In her current role as the Dean of the University's Research Office and the Chair of the University Research Grants Committee, Dr Gupta is working towards enhancing the University's research profile and creating and streamlining research-related policies and processes across the various schools and research centres of the University.

  1. Administrative Law and the Regulatory State
  2. Law of Torts and Consumer Protection
  3. Advanced Tort Law
  4. Comparative Constitutional Law
  5. WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

Bioethics of Medical Advertising, Thakur Family Foundation (US), 2022-25
 

 2024
  • Compulsory Lawyer Mechanisms in Access to Justice Workshop, National University of Singapore

2022
  • Torts Law Reform in Asia and Beyond Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, CCTL Obligations Lab Asia, Hong Kong

 

2021
  • Rethinking Unjust Enrichment Symposium, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • Current Legal Issues in India Conference, Institute of Legal Studies, Konkuk University, South Korea
  • Mapping the Architecture of Private Financing for Sustainable Development in the Global Recovery Economy Conference, Warwick University, UK

2020
  • Tort-Based Lawyering in a Global Context Symposium, Indiana University, US

2019
  • The Plurality of Law and Development, Law and Development Research Network Annual Conference 2019, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  • Law and Sustainable Development Conference, UC-Davis, US

2017
  • The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization, Mumbai (by Harvard Law School)
  • Global Pro Bono Conference, University of California-Los Angeles, US

2015
  • Inter-University Graduate Conference, Cornell Law School, US

2014
  • The 44th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
  • IGLP Conference, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, US

2013
  • IGLP Conference, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, US

2012
  • Globalization, Lawyers and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Conferences: 
    • Harvard Law School (April 2012) & 
    • Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India (December 2012)
  • IGLP Conference, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, US

2011
  • The Law and Development Conference, Seattle University School of Law, US

History of Law and Development, in Y.S. Lee ed., Cambridge Handbook of Law and Development (co-authored with David Trubek and Tatiana Cruz) (Cambridge, forthcoming 2027)

Legal Professional Ethics: India in a Globalising World, in Legal Ethics, Special Issue: Symposium on the Internationalisation of Legal Ethics (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2026)

From Voluntary to Compulsory Mechanisms of Doing Good: Pro Bono & CSR in India, in Helena Whalen-Bridge ed., Beyond Mandatory Pro Bono: Compulsory Lawyer Mechanisms in Access to Justice (co-authored with Nemika Jha & Meghmala Mukherjee) (Cambridge, forthcoming 2026)

Mass Tort Litigation and Civil Justice in India: Bhopal and Beyond, in Anne Bloom et al. eds., Research Handbook on Civil Justice, Research Handbooks: Law and Society Series (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)

Law of Unjust Enrichment in India - Historical Evolution and Contemporary Challenges, in W. Swain & S. Peari eds., Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine and Theory (Oxford 2023)

The Evolving Contours of Private Pro Bono Practice in India: Local and Global Contexts, in Scott Cummings, Fabio De Sa e Silva, and Louise Trubek eds., Global Pro Bono: Causes, Consequences and Contestation (Cambridge, 2022)

Regulating Microfinance for Financial Inclusion & Development: A Chronological Analysis of Microfinance Regulation in India, 49 Ilkam Law Review 109-136 (2021)

Mass Tort Jurisprudence and Critical Epistemologies of Risk: Dissolution of Public-Private Divide in the Indian Mass Tort Law, 40 Liverpool Law Review 227-252 (2019)

Social Welfare in India, Research Encyclopedia of Social Work (co-authored with Shrivridhi Shukla, Rutgers University School of Social Work, US) (Oxford, 2019)

Pro Bono and the Corporate Legal Sector in India, in David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya S. Khanna & David M. Trubek eds., The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society(Cambridge 2017)

Overview of Legal Practice in India and the Indian Legal Profession, in David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya S. Khanna & David M. Trubek eds., The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society (co-authored with David B. Wilkins, Harvard Law School & Vikramaditya Khanna, University of Michigan Law School) (Cambridge 2017)

International Microtrade Regime: Structure and Financing, in Microtrade: A New System of International Trade with Volunteerism towards Poverty Elimination (Routledge 2013, reprint 2015)

Law and Development: A History in Three Moments, in Ugo Mattei & John D Haskell eds., Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law (Edward Elgar 2015)

International Microtrade Regime: Structure and Financing, 5(1) Law and Development Review, 3-28 (2012)

Constitutional Pluralism: A Recent Trend in International Constitutional Law: European Origins and the Third World Concerns, 36 South African Yearbook of International Law 37-60 (2011)
Email agupta@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0001-8275-0152
Key Expertise Law and Development, Civil Liability Law, Legal Bioethics, Legal Profession, Legal History, Comparative Law