Prof (Dr.)Dipika Jain is the Executive Dean and Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India, where she has served since its inception in 2009 as a founding faculty. As the founding director of the Centre for Justice, Law, and Society (CJLS), she is driving groundbreaking work at the intersection of law and marginalization. An internationally recognized scholar, she has been a visiting faculty member at the Transnational Law Institute at King’s College London (2017–2021) and a visiting scholar at institutions such as the University of Oxford, the University of Melbourne, and the Max Planck Institute. Her academic journey includes a B.A. in Political Science (Hons) from Lady Shri Ram College, an LL.B. from Delhi University and she received the Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellowship Award in Health Law & Policy, 2006 to pursue a Master’s Degree at Dalhousie University, Canada. She earned an LL.M from Harvard Law School (2009) and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Frankfurt (2024) under Prof. Günter Frankenberg, focusing on critical constitutionalism and graduating with a distinction Summa Cum Laude.

Earlier Dr. Jain worked as Professor of Law, Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Clinical Legal Education) and the Director of the Centre for Justice, Law and Society at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India. Her research was recently cited by the Supreme Court in the landmark decision of Navtej Johar v. Union of India (2018). In 2018, she was designated as the first Research Associate Professor at JGLS. In 2020, her research was cited in the legislative debate on abortion laws in the Indian Parliament. She is published in several prestigious journals, law reviews, and compendia internationally found at https://jgls.academia.edu/DipikaJain. She has been consulted for the UNDP; Centre for Reproductive Rights (New York); and IPAS Development on Reproductive Justice, Digital Health and Family Law. As the Director of CJLS, she has addressed  various barriers in access to justice for marginalized persons in India.