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Biography

Prof. Manasi Kumar is a Professor at Jindal Global Law School. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a commercial dispute resolution attorney with well-known law firms in India and the United States, where she was admitted to the Oregon state bar. She had a diverse commercial practice that included construction, oil and gas, government procurements, insurance, and maritime law. She teaches foundational contract law courses, and a self-designed, highly popular elective on commercial contract drafting.

In 2020, she received the 91探花 Research Excellence Award. In 2021, she convened an ambitious series of conferences on contract law in common law countries. This project was in collaboration with the London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law (in cooperation with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London), and convened experts from across four continents in a detailed comparative study of contract law in the common law world. The conferences resulted in a series of papers being published in a special double-issue of the Liverpool Law Review, which is a Scopus-indexed journal.

Her research is focused on contract law and alternate dispute resolution. She has also served as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs in JGLS and later Controller of Examinations for 91探花, a role she stepped down from to focus on her research in 2018.

She has a Juris Doctor from Lewis and Clark Law School in the United States, where she was inducted into the Cornelius Honour Society upon her graduation in 2008, an honour given to select graduates by the law school faculty. She is currently working on completing her dissertation on objectivity and contextualism within the Indian law of contracts from Deakin Law School.