Ms Ira Chadha-Sridhar

Ira is a PhD Candidate and Cambridge International Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie at the intersections of legal, political and moral philosophy; medical law and ethics; and family law. Her doctoral project titled ' A Care Ethical Theory of Political Obligation' brings the ethics of care in conversation with legal philosophy. She has presented her research at the Faculty of Philosophy's Political Philosophy Workshop, the Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group ,the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the LSE Political Theory Graduate Conference, and two editions of the Young Scholar's Workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin. During the PhD, Ira has acted as Co-Chair of the Philosophy, Law and Politics Graduate Forum – a Forum that seeks to build a network for scholars working in legal and political philosophy across England. Ira has also chaired sessions at the Cambridge Forum of Legal and Political Philosophy and is a PhD Fellow at the Cambridge Family Law Centre. 

With respect to teaching, Ira has offered supervisions (small-group teaching) to Law Tripos students at several colleges in Cambridge in the papers of jurisprudence and family law. During her time as a Lecturer in law at O.P. Jindal Global University in India, Ira lectured in jurisprudence, family law and the interpretation of statutes to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

Ira finished a B.A.LLB Hons degree at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India, where she graduated with three Gold Medals and was Editor of the NUJS Law Review. In 2019, Ira completed the LLM at Cambridge with a Class Rank of 2 in the cohort and a First Class Honours. She was also awarded the Cambridge Law Faculty’s George Long Prize for Jurisprudence. 

Ira has published several papers in legal and political theory. She has most recently published a paper on the concept of care which can be found here.

Scholarships and Prizes

• Cambridge International and King's College Scholarship (2020, Cambridge Trust)

• Cambridge Society of Bombay Scholarship (2020 & 2018, CSBSF)

• Honorary Cambridge Nehru Scholar (2020, Nehru Trust for Cambridge University)

• George Long Prize for Jurisprudence (2019, Faculty of Law)

• Kate Bertram Prize (2019, Lucy Cavendish College)

• Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Memorial Gold Medal for Legal History I and II (2018, WBNUJS)

• Justice Bhabesh Chandra Chakrabarti Memorial Gold Medal for Trademark Law (2018, WBNUJS)

• University Award for Best Debater (2018, WBNUJS)

• European Society of International Law Mooting Prize for Winning the ELSA Moot Court Competition (2015, WTO)

• Best Orator at the Grand Finals Award, ELSA Moot Court Competition (2015, WTO)

Professional Experience

Lecturer, OP Jindal Global University, Delhi (NCR) India 2019- Taught courses in Jurisprudence, Family Law and the Interpretation of Statutes.