Sregurupriya
Ayyappan
- BCL, University of Oxford
- B.A.,LL.B (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
Areas of Interest
Sregurpriya Ayyappan holds an undergraduate B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from NLSIU-Bangalore where she stood second in her graduating class winning several medals. She also holds a B.C.L from the University of Oxford, where she was a Felix Scholar.
She has litigation experience of over three and half years and has appeared in a wide range of constitutional, commercial, and regulatory matters before the Supreme Court of India, High Court of Delhi and various tribunals. Prior to joining academia, she has worked as an Associate in the chambers of Mr. K Parameshwar, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India.
She has previously been a legal researcher for the Justice (Retd.) Sirpurkar Inquiry Commission and the Legal Advisory Team, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change and trainee clerk for Justice (Former) Shantanagoudar, Supreme Court of India. She has also served as legal consultant for various organisations on interpretive aspects of different laws and as External Member of the Internal Complaints Committee for workplace sexual harassment of different companies.
– ‘Re-instating Rights and Curtailing Summary Court Martials: The Supreme Court from Ranjit Thakur to Vishav Priya Singh’, March to Justice: Global Military Justice Landmarks (Navdeep Singh and Frank Rosenblatt ed., BluOne Ink) (2021) (co-authored).
– ‘Trends in Environmental Crimes in Asia’, Lawasia (2019) (co-authored).
– ‘Exploring the Duality of the Election Commission’, Vol 4(3) Comparative Constitutional & Administrative Law Quarterly (2019).
– ‘Campaign Bans: The Election Commission Reclaiming its Teeth?’, Socio-Legal Review Forum (2019).
– ‘National Food Security Act: Overlooking the Poverty-Nutrition Nexus’, Socio-Legal Review Forum (2018).
– ‘Calvin and Hart: Disobedience through a Jurisprudential Lens’, Graphic Justice Research Alliance (2018).
– ‘Uniform Civil Code and Adoption Laws’, Vol 4(1) Journal of Law & Public Policy, 294 (2017).
– ‘Panopticism in the Education System’, Vol 1(1) Syahi (Delhi School of Economics), 28 (2017).
– Law Faculty Bursary for DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (2024-27, Declined).
– Felix Scholarship (2023-24), University of Oxford.
– Ambriti Salve Scholarship (Exeter College, University of Oxford) (2023-24, Declined).
– Late Sri A.V. Gopalakrishna Bhat Memorial Medal for II Rank, National Law School of India University (2020).
– Basant Kumar Birla Medal for the II Rank Student, National Law School of India University (2020).
– Endeavour Leadership Programme Grant, Government of Australia (2019).
– Anil Divan Foundation Grant for research on transnational environmental crimes (2019).
– Indian Delegate to the International Youth Educational & Cultural Festival 2018, Kingdom of Cambodia (selected by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs).
– Academic Excellence Award, National Law School of India University (2017-19).
