Dr. Sumit Baudh (they/them or he/him) is a Professor of Law at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. Dr. Baudh received their Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA (UCLA) School of Law, Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics, London, UK, and a Bachelor of Arts and Laws with Honors (B.A. LL.B. Hons.) from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
As a former British Chevening scholar, Dr. Baudh has held prestigious Fellowships including the University of California Human Rights Fellow, Berkeley, Michael D. Palm Fellow of the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Fellow of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, Columbia Law School, and the Transnational Law Institute Fellow, King’s College London. Dr. Baudh is qualified to practice law as an Advocate in India and enrolled as a Solicitor with The Law Society, England and Wales. As an independent consultant, Dr. Baudh has advised national and international organizations including the US based Arcus Foundation, the United Nations Development Program, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, and the Norway-based LLH.
As the first Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair at Emory University, Dr. Baudh’s research is titled ‘A Comparative Review of Civil and Human Rights in India and the United States of America. —from a Critical Race and Dalit perspective’; amidst other sources, the research is informed by classroom instructions of a taught course on Critical Race Theory and Caste.