Preeti Pratishruti Dash

Biography

Preeti Pratishruti Dash is a legal academic, whose research interests lie in criminal law and policy. Pratishruti Dash is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Gates-Cambridge Scholar. Her doctoral work focuses on the downsides of punitive approaches to sexual violence India.

Professor Pratishruti Dash has served as an Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India teaching courses on criminal law and leading seminars on violence against women. She has also worked as a research scholar at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi, where she worked and published on capital sentencing in India.

Pratishruti Dash’s academic qualifications include an LLB from National Law University, Odisha, where she was a gold medalist. She also holds LLM from Harvard Law School under the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowshp, and an MSc in criminology from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Roger Hood Prize and the Routledge Prize for her outstanding performance and dissertation.

Beyond her professional endeavors, Pratishruti Dash enjoys traveling, reading post-colonial and historical fiction, and exploring different cuisines.