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Email

bb584@cam.ac.uk

Education CV

Education:

  • PhD in Law, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge (2021-present)
  • LLM, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge (2019-20)
  • BA LLB, Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIP University (2013-18)

Scholarships and Prizes:

  • Kenneth Law Essay Prize, for first-year paper titled ‘Towards an Information Theory of Law’, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge (2022)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Cambridge International Scholarship, full-scholarship towards PhD, University of Cambridge (2021)
  • St Edmund’s College Prize, for achieving first class in LL.M. examinations, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge (2020)
  • Cambridge Trust Scholarship, partial scholarship towards LL.M., University of Cambridge (2019)
  • Cornelia Sorabji Law Scholarship, partial scholarship towards BCL, University of Oxford (offered) (2019)
  • University Gold Medal, GGSIP University for overall first rank in B.A. LL.B. across 8 colleges (2018)

Select Research Experience:

  • Research Assistant, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2020-present)
  • Research Sprint Participant (speculative fiction track), Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (Fall 2022)
  • Project Manager, Cambridge Law Faculty Pro Bono Project, University of Cambridge (2021-22)
  • General Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal (2019-20)
  • Legal Research Fellow, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi (2018-2019)
  • Principal Associate and Teaching Assistant, The Negotiation Academy (2017-19)

Teaching Experience:

  • ‘Law, Technology, Society', LL.M. Workshops for the Economics of Law and Regulation course, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2020-22)
  • ‘Inequality and Law’, LL.M. Workshops for the Economics of Law and Regulation course, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2020-22)

Workshops and Conferences:

  • 'Art as a Social System: Dismantling Power Lock-ins One Poem at a Time', Poetic Justice Values, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (Dec' 22)
  • 'Information theory of law: a critical framework', Computational Law on Edge Conference, COHUBICOL, Brussels (Nov' 22)
  • ‘Law as a social information system’, Paris Doctoral Week, Sciences Po, Paris (Jun’ 22)
  • ‘Law as code and power’, Digit Futures of Work Research Centre, University of Sussex (Feb’ 21)
  • ‘Harmonisation in International Law’, ILS Law College, Pune (Apr’ 21)
  • ‘Ontology of Data’, Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Conference, University of Cambridge (Jan’ 21)

Fields of research

Systems Theory, Law and Technology, Legal Evolution, Gender, Longtermism, Creative Methods

Research centres and interest groups

 

Law as code and power: towards an information theory of law

Summary

My first-year paper is an introduction to what I call the 'information theory of law'. It applies an external frame, C.E. Shannon’s information (or communication) theory, to law based on its positioning as a social system in Niklas Luhmann’s terms. Shannon’s frame and its shortcomings reveal how law interacts and co-evolves with its environment. By inquiring into the nature of law as an information system and how it encodes and shapes our identities (with a special focus on gender), I have arrived at a three-pronged conclusion. Law is a type of social information system that is exclusive, reflexive, and adaptive. From here on, I aim to test these claims through a combination of qualitative empirical research and creative practise-led/based methods. 

Supervisors

Prof. Simon Deakin (supervisor), Dr. Jennifer Cobbe (advisor)

Start Date

Oct 2021

Publications

 

Books

Anti-Dumping in the Globalized World: Law and Practice of Anti-Dumping Duty Circumvention (Wolters Kluwer, 2019)

Articles

"Law as code and power: modelling communication in legal systems" (2023) 2(1) Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law

Citation:
(2023) 2(1) Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law
Published: Jan 2024

"Strategising Protectionism: An Analysis of India’s Regulation of Anti-Dumping Duty Circumvention" (2018) 10:2 Trade, Law and Development 417

Citation:
(2018) 10:2 Trade, Law and Development 417
Published: Oct 2018

Book Chapters

"Monsoons of Hope" in Amy Johnson (ed(s)), Stories from (Un)Identified Worlds: A Speculative Fiction Anthology, 2023)

"The EU's Role in the Extra-territorial Enforcement of Labour Laws" (with Simon Deakin) in Zane Rasnaca (Anthology Editor), Aristea Koukiadaki, Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher (ed(s)), Effective Enforcement of EU Labour Law, 2022)

Blog Posts