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Professor Prabha Kotiswaran is a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King's College London, affiliated with The Dickson Poon School of Law. Previously, she taught at SOAS and practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. She holds degrees from the National Law School of India University (undergraduate), Harvard Law School (LLM and SJD).
Research Interests: Criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies, sociology of law, with a focus on sex work regulation, surrogacy, anti-trafficking discourse, and social reproduction. Her work critiques legal frameworks affecting marginalized groups and explores intersections of law, gender, and development.
Publications: Authored Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India (2011), co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Law and Society (2021), and contributed to seminal works on trafficking, governance feminism, and reproductive technologies. Her research has been funded by the ERC, AHRC, and Leverhulme Trust.
Awards: Philip Leverhulme Prize (2014), SLSA-Hart Book Prize (2011). She leads the ERC-funded 'Laws of Social Reproduction' project and serves on editorial boards of journals like Indian Law Review and Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
Grants & Roles: Principal Investigator of a five-year ERC Consolidator Grant (2018–2023). Co-convener of the Transnational Law Summer Institute (TLSI). Supervised PhD students Sophie Britz and Prerna Dhoop. Advocates for legal reforms in surrogacy, trafficking, and unpaid labor valuation.
