Meet The Faculty

Teaching experience: over 18 yrs.; Practicing experience: over 6 yrs. (Hon’ble High Court at Calcutta and State Administrative Tribunal) Debashree Mukherjee has completed her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Burdwan. She has been awarded Gold Medals at both PG and UG levels. and is the recipient of the Saroj Mazumdar Medal by the University for her consistent academic performance. She has over eighteen years of teaching experience at both UG and PG levels and six years of experience in practicing at the Hon’ble High Court at Kolkata and at the West Bengal State Administrative Tribunal. She has published over twenty articles in edited volumes and various Law Journals and edited books on various aspects of Law. Her research interest areas include Environmental Law, Human Rights, International Law and International Relations.

LLM from Bharti Vidyapeeth, Pune University with specialization in International Human Rights. P.G. Diploma in PM & IR, Annamalai University. LLB from Mumbai University & secured 1 st Position in the subject of Criminal Procedure Code. Seven years of teaching experience in Mumbai & Kolkata. Seven years of practice in the field of civil & criminal matters as Advocate in Jharkhand High Court, Ranchi. Presently working as Assistant Professor – law at Sister Nivedita University, New Town & pursuing PhD in Labour Law from the same University. She has published several articles, book chapters in National & International journals and Journals of repute. She has four publications in UGC Care journals and has presented several papers in various National and International Conferences/Seminars. She has also participated in several workshops, training programs and seminars. Her areas of interest include Labour Law, Company law, Family law & Constitutional law.

Somanjana Dutta Chattakhandi is persuing her PH.D from Sister Nivedita University. She has qualified SET examination. She is having 8 years teaching experience and 1 year working experience in LPO. She completed her LL.M from Department of Law (Hazra Campus) University of Calcutta with first class. She was first class first in B.A. LL.B(H) from SKAIL, University of Kalyani. She has good number of publications in various recognised journals. She has also participated and presented paper in various national and international journals.

Dr. Susmita Dhar has been awarded her Ph.D. degree from Burdwan University and her LL.M from University of Calcutta. Graduating from Hooghly Mohsin College, she has an experience of 6 Years in teaching and 8 years of Practicing experience at the Calcutta High Court in Criminal and Writ jurisdiction. She has been a State Funded Research Fellow of Burdwan University. She has Published 25 Articles in various journal and edited books. She Participated in 39 National and International seminars and conferences as paper presenter. She has also taught as guest lecturer in the Department of Law, Burdwan University and Department of Law, University of Calcutta for many years. Her research interest areas include IPR, environmental law, Corporate governance, Company Law, Law of Evidence and Banking Law.

She is a Ph.D Research scholar (provisionally registered) at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She has passed LL.M. from Department of Law, University of Calcutta in the year 2021 and B.A. LLB (Hons.) from Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College under University of Calcutta in the year 2018 with first class. She has qualified UGC NET in February, 2022. She has three publications in peer reviewed journals. Prior to joining as an academician she was practicing as an Advocate in the High Court at Calcutta and Alipore Judges' Court.

Pallavi Roy is a Ph.D. Research Scholar at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She earned her LL.M. with a specialization in Corporate and Commercial Law from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata in the year 2019, after completing her B.A.LL.B. (Hons) from South Calcutta Law College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, in 2018. She cleared the UGC-NET exam for Law at her first attempt in December 2019. She has two publications to her credit and has more than two years of teaching experience. In addition, she also has practical industry experience as a Legal Executive prior to joining academia.