Ratna Kapur

Ratna Kapur is a law professor and former Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, India [1995–2012].
Education and career.
She has a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University and an LLM. from Harvard Law School.
Professor Kapur is currently working as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this, she was a Professor at Jindal Global Law School in India. She is also a Senior Faculty member at the International Global Law and Policy Institute at Harvard Law School.
She has worked as a practising lawyer in India and been a visiting Professor at a number of universities around the world, including Yale Law School, NYU School of Law, Georgetown University Law Centre, UN Peace University (Costa Rica) and the National Law School of India, Bangalore. She has also been a visiting fellow at Cambridge University and Harvard University.
Ratna Kapur has also worked with the United Nations, having served as the Gender Adviser at the United Nations Mission in Nepal, the Organization's special political mission to support Nepal's peace process following a decade-long internal armed conflict.
She has taught and published extensively on human rights, international law, postcolonial theory, and legal theory.
Kapur serves on the international advisory boards of the academic journals "Legal Studies" and "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society".
Works.
Ratna Kapur is a global legal scholar. She has lectured and published on issues of human rights, international law, and constitutional law, in particular on secularism, freedom of expression, equality, and gender equality and sexual rights around the world. She has written on issues such as Triple Talaq, the right to die , sex work, same-sex marriage, marital rape, sexual harassment, etc.