Prerna Dhoop is pursuing her MPhil/PhD at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London (KCL) on the topic of ‘Equitable Integration of Women in the Indian Armed Forces: A Socio-Legal Study of the Gender Neutral Approach’.

She is the Editor- in- Chief of the King’s Student Law Review (KSLR), a peer-reviewed academic journal run by research students based at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London (KCL).

She is an Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bangalore- Karnataka, India where she teaches courses on Constitutional Law; Legal Methods, Law, Poverty and Development’; Gender and Sexuality Studies; and LGBTQI+ Rights Impact Litigation.

Previously, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) Hyderabad- Telangana, India where she taught public law courses such as Legal Methods; Law and Poverty; Administrative Law; Comparative Public Law; Law and Justice in a Globalizing World; and LGBTQI+ Rights Impact Litigation.

She has completed her LL.M. from Duke University School of Law, Durham-North Carolina, USA; and BBA.LL.B. from KIIT University School of Law, Bhubaneswar-Odisha, India.

She has research and writing experience in the US as well as India. At Duke Law School, she was a participant at the International Human Rights Clinic which assisted the United Nations in developing basic principles on the right to an effective remedy for victims of human trafficking, especially women and children. She also worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Adrienne Davis at Duke. Later, she worked at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Washington DC., as a Policy Clerk during May- July 2014.

After completion of the policy clerkship at the non-profit organization, she returned to India in order to pursue a career in legal academics and research. In 2015, she worked as a Research Assistant at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) Kolkata, under Sir Justice Asutosh Mookerjee Chair on Tradition, Law and Social Transformation in Bengal. Whilst a student at KIIT Law School in 2009, she along with her two batch-mates had raised the issue of the Right to Self-Identification for the Indian transgender community before the Chief Election Commissioner of India. Their concerted efforts resulted in the Government of India’s official decision of assigning a distinct gender identity to the one million transgender population, in the Voter Identity cards. She has also worked as a judicial intern with the former Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra at the Supreme Court of India.

PhD Thesis

Equitable Integration of Women in the Indian Armed Forces: A Socio-Legal Study of the Gender Neutral Approach

Supervisors

Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran

Dr. Amanda Chisholm

Research Interests

• Socio-Legal Theory & Methods
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• International Human Rights Law
• Feminist and Gender Studies
• Military Sociology