Ms. Srishti Ray

Srishti Ray is an Academic Fellow at the Center for Criminology and Victimology, at National Law University, Delhi. She pursued LLM in Criminal Law, from NUJS, Kolkata. Prior to joining NLU, Delhi, she worked as a Lecturer and Researcher at the West Bengal State Police Academy, where she was involved in teaching and developing Criminal Law modules for Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent of Police. Her LLM dissertation was focused on Child Sexual Abuse, for which she conducted an empirical research, interviewing various NGO spokespersons, Public Prosecutors and Advocates in matter of disposal of cases of child sexual abuse in West Bengal. She has a keen interest in Criminology and Socio-legal research.

Scholarships and Awards

• Recipient of the WBNUJS, Kolkata Scholarship for LLM Students, 2024.
• Recipient of the NLUJA, Assam Merit cum Means Scholarship, 2020, 2021, 2022.

Significant Publications

• Authored an article “The LGBTQIA+ Community and the Employment Sector” for KLS Law Review, Volume 11, 2024.
• Authored an article “Me Too Movement- Through the lens of the marginalised” for London School of Economics, South Asian Blog, 8th January, 2024.
• Authored an article “Sex Workers in India” for RightsView Blog of Columbia University, 13th October, 2021.
• Authored an article for The Wire, on “Universities, Exams and the Online Digital Divide: A Short Survey” published on 14th January, 2021.
• Authored an article for The Wire, on “Law School and Discrimination” published on 7th September, 2020.
• Authored a Research Article selected for presentation at the N.R. Madhava Menon Legal Conclave organised by NUJS, on “Legal Pluralism in India”, February, 2020, for which she was awarded Best Paper Presenter Award.