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Mayur Suresh is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Student Experience Tutor at the School of Law, Gender and Media at SOAS University of London since 2015. He holds a BA LLB (Hons) from the National Law School of India University (2004), an LLM from Columbia Law School (2006), and a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London (2017). His research focuses on anti-terror laws, law and anthropology, and gender/sexuality in South Asia. He is a Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Science Pedagogies, emphasizing writing-based teaching practices.
Research highlights include his book Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (2023), exploring ethnographic fieldwork in terrorism trials, and the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award (2023) for studying the Indian state's use of law in authoritarian contexts. He has co-edited The Shifting Scales of Justice: The Supreme Court in Neo-liberal India (2014) and published widely on legal anthropology and socio-legal processes.
- PhD Supervision: Currently guiding research on institutional legal consciousness, sexual consent in Indian law, family courtroom emotions, and socio-legal analysis of sex crimes.
- Awards: Leverhulme Research Leadership Award (2023).
- Contact: Email ms148@soas.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4646.
Mayur’s work bridges legal theory and practice, with a focus on marginalized voices in legal systems and the anthropological study of judicial processes.
