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Sreeparvathy Gopalakrishna Pillai

Sreeparvathy Gopalakrishna Pillai

Assistant Professor

About

Sreeparvathy is a legal academic whose research spans the fields of Criminal Law, Labour Law, and Conflict of Laws. She completed her undergraduate legal education from the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi. She specialised in Criminal Law and Human Rights Law during her postgraduate studies at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.

Sreeparvathy has more than a decade of experience in academia. She began her career as a member of the faculty at National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ). She has also been a visiting faculty at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (NLSIU), National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi, and the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). Her doctoral work concerns care work and its gender dimensions, vis-à-vis the Indian labour regime.

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‘Unpaid Care work’ and the Indian Legal system: How much does the law care? Volume-X (II), HNLU JLSS 2024, 95-104.
Post-partum disorders and the defence of insanity in maternal filicide case: An analysis, Vol. III (I&II) RGNUL Social Science Review (January-December 2022): 45-60.
Rethinking Dispute Resolution in Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development in India. (with Dr. Harisankar K.S).5 (1) Journal of Infrastructure Development, SAGE Publications, (2013): 21-32.
Impartiality of the Office of the Speaker: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Positions in India and U.K., 44 (1- 2) Journal of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (2010): 49-73.
Concept of Human vis-à-vis Human Rights: An Analysis, 1(1) ILI Law Review(2010):151-163.
India's Rendezvous with Death Penalty: A Critical Appraisal of the Application of the Rarest of Rare by the Supreme Court of India, in Deepa Kansra, (et al. eds.) 'Re-thinking the Law: Emerging Issues and Challenges,' Authors Press (2013):176-199 ISBN978- 81-7273-686-6.
Social security of domestic workers in India: A critique, in Mini S (ed.), Labour Rights in the new millennium, Centre for Competition Law and Policy, National University of Advanced Legal Studies, (2020), ISBN:978-81-945680-2-5.
Mothers in 'Law': Changing Dimensions and Future Concerns, in Sheeba S. Dhar (ed.) Gender Justice and Constitutional Values: A Reflection on Concept of Family and Rights of Women, Centre for Women and Family Studies, NUALS (2021) ISBN-978-81-945680-7-0.
ASHAs as workers: Between volunteerism and exploitation? in Jeet Singh Mann (ed.) Labour Law Reforms 2021, Centre for Transparency and Accountability in Governance, National Law University, Delhi ISBN-978-93-84272-30-2
Combating COVID-19 by Contracting out Health Data of Keralites: Some Legal Questions (with Harisankar K.S), CPPR Blog, April 2020, https://www.cppr.in/articles/combating-covid-19-by-contracting-out-health-data-of-keralites-some- legal-questions

Sreeparvathy is currently pursuing her doctoral research on the legal regulation of care work, with a particular emphasis on its gendered dimensions. Her work examines the social and economic factors that have shaped the construction of care work as inherently gendered and altruistic, and how this understanding has influenced its treatment under labour law. Based on empirical research conducted among child care workers in the state of Kerala, her current research seeks to highlight the challenges faced by these workers and suggest potential directions for the future regulation of care work in India.

Research Interests

Care work and Law, Criminal Law and Conflict of Laws

The British Academy Academic Writing Workshop Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh (2021–22)

University Research Fellowship, Cochin University of Science and Technology (2019–23)

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), University Grants Commission (UGC) India (2010)

ILI Merit Scholarship for LL.M, Indian Law Institute, New Delhi (2008–10)

Sreeparvathy Gopalakrishna Pillai

Assistant Professor

LL.M, Ph.D (ongoing)

School of Law

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