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Dr. Geeta Oberoi

Dr. Geeta Oberoi

Professor, Law

geeta.oberoi@sharda.ac.in

About

Professor Dr. Geeta Oberoi did her LL.B. from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, LL.M from Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana and Ph.D. on judicial education discourse development jointly from the University of Warwick (UK) and University of Delhi under the split site commonwealth scholarship award of Foreign Commonwealth Office (UK). She has worked as a researcher at Indian Law Institute, New Delhi (2000-2004); as Assistant Professor, Professor and Director at National Judicial Academy Bhopal (2004-2008; 2014-2023), as  consultant to the Law Commission of India (2009), and to Oxfam Novib Netherlands office (2009). She was Additional Director at Maharashtra State Judicial Academy (2010-2012); Principal at Llyods Law College (2012-13); the Director at the Institute of Judicial and Legal Studies for the Supreme Court of Mauritius (2013-2014). She was the head of law department at Usha Martini University (2023). Before joining Sharda University, she was Professor at Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies at Delhi (2024). She has authored 8 books, 17 articles in international journals, 11 internal papers, 8 book/paper reviews, and edited journals, annual reports and newsletters for institutes wherein she has served. 

Experience
  • 23 years
Qualification
  • Ph.D (Law), LL.M, LL.B, B.A. (Mathematics) 
Award & Recognition

  • Fulbright Scholarship for LLM
  • Commonwealth Split Site Scholarship for Ph.D
  • National Centre for State Courts, USA scholarship for IOJT trainings
     

Research

-        The Role of Judicial Education, Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Vol. 35, Issue 3, September 2009, pages 497-533
-        Judicial professionalization through the discourse of training: Nepal National Judicial Academy Law Journal, Volume 5, No. 1, 2011, pp. 189-214
-        Limitation of Judicial Education for Continuing Professional Development, The International Journal for Court Administration, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2012, pp. 64-74
-        Globalization of the Judicial Education discourse: Commonwealth Law bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 3, September 2012, pp. 393-421
-        Contribution of the Judicial Education Discourse to Judicial Professionalization in Different Jurisdictions, Sri Lanka Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 1, 2015, p. 73-110
-        Nature of Litigation filed to challenge local elections in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Newsletter of the National Judicial Academy, Vol.6, No.2, December 2016
-        The curious case of court manager in India: From its creation to its desertion, Newsletter of the National Judicial Academy, Vol.7, No.1, March 2017, p. 53-71
-        Disappointing performance of special courts conducting trials of “sexual offences committed against children” in India, The Journal of The Institute for Culture, Media, and Entertainment Laws, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, June 2017 Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 63-90, ISSN -20926138
-        Disappointing performance of special courts conducting trials of “sexual offences committed against children” in India, The Journal of The Nepal National Judicial Academy, 2017, vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 61-80
-        The Curious Case of Court Manager in India from its creation to desertion, International Journal for Court Administration, December 2017 Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 1-9, ISSN 2156-7964
-        Concerns on nature and duration of induction trainings offered to magistrates in India, 2(1) International Journal for the Rule of Law, Courtroom Procedures, Judicial Linguistics and Legal English, April 2018, pp. 109-136, ISSN: 2637-8299
-        Why Court Managers failed to contribute effectively to the court system in India?, The Court Administrator, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 2018, pp. 37-41
-        Limitations of Induction Trainings Offered to Magistrates by State Judicial Educators in India, 4(4) Athens Journal of Law, October 2018, pp. 301-316, ISSN: 2407-9685
-        Need for standardizing performance evaluation criteria for judicial magistrates in India, 44(2) Commonwealth Law Bulletin 2018, pp. 251-278
-        Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon: Remembering and Recollecting, 13(1) Nepal NJA Law Journal 2019, pp. 231-236
-        The Construction of female identities in ancient texts, Editorial for Rising Kashmir and Article for Mauritian Times, March 8, 2022
-        Why Judicial Education Institutions (JEI) must Focus Vulnerabilities faced on Account of Age, Economic Status...? 8(3) Athens Journal of Law, July 2022, P. 217-236

Certifications

  • World Bank e-Course on Violence, Conflict and Fragility

Area of Interest

  • Constitutionalism, Jurisprudence, Law and Technology (cyberlaw, evidence)