Shailesh Kumar is a D.Phil. Candidate at School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom. He is a recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship 2017 and Ronnie Warrington Graduate Teaching Assistantship 2017-2018 to pursue a full-time PhD in the UK. He has submitted an MPhil dissertation on the topic ‘‘Legal Architecture in India: Law, Image and Justice’’ from Centre for the study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in 2016. He is also an alumnus of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and National Law University (CNLU), Patna and receiving his LLM and B.A. LL.B. degrees respectively.

His research arena covers the legal architecture, symbolism and semiotics of the Supreme Court of India, Juvenile Justice, and Environmental Governance. His research interest includes critical analysis of personal, civil and corporate law.

His peer-reviewed articles were published in ‘Contexto Internacional’, ‘International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue Internationale de Sémiotique juridique’ [Springer]. He has also contributed a chapter in an edited volume, ‘The Law of Human Rights (A Tribute to Late Justice Krishna Iyer)’. He taught as a Guest faculty member at the Law Centre-I, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, during Fall Session 2016. He was a Graduate Teaching Assistant of Constitutional Law-II at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad for the Academic Session 2014. He also worked as a Research Associate, project titled ‘Public Interest Litigation in India: A Critical Analysis’, under the guidance of Prof. Ajay Kumar, CNLU, Patna, India, 2012-2013.

As a law scholar at Policy Change Initiative, he would look into the matters of public laws in India, and study the epistemic shifts in the Indian Juvenile Justice system and the rights of women in the contemporary era.