Director's Message

Prof. Dr. (Mrs.) Shashikala Gurpur, with an illustrious career over 33 years in teaching, research and industry, has been with SLS, Pune since 2007 as a Director, Symbiosis Law School and Dean faculty of Law, SIU. She is a distinguished academician and orator, national merit scholar, University topper in LLM, holds PhD in International Law and has an extensive teaching experience in National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Manipal University and National University Ireland. In March 2024, she received the Distinguished Woman Achiever Award from the Society of Indian Law Firm (SILF).

She was featured amongst the illustrious 100 women personalities in the book "The Phenomenal She” launched by the Indian National Bar Association. She is Former Member of Law Commission of India, National Judicial Academy and Bar Council of India and was listed among 100 legal luminaries of India in 2016 by LexisNexis. Dr. Shashikala Gurpur has been conferred the Annual Kittur Rani Chennamma Award,2018-19 by the Government of Karnataka for her excellent achievement in the field of education and contribution to women empowerment.

Dr. Gurpur has more than 85 publications (20 Scopus/WoS) and presented more than 335 invited lectures, workshops on Gender Literacy, Human Rights, Media Literacy and seminars across India, Thailand, US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Canada and UAE. She is a pioneer of EU Legal Studies in India. She is a member of Sector Specific Group for ‘Digital and Creative Economy (DCE)’ in GoI, Ministry of Education Department of Higher Education also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the WBNUJS, member of the Academic Council at MNLU, Aurangabad, resource person at NJA, Bhopal and PhD referee to many NLUs, JNU Delhi, Mumbai and many state universities.

She is awarded with the most coveted professional achievement “Jean Monnet Chair Professor for EU Climate Justice Law, Governance, Management and Policy (EUC-LAMP)” Co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union. She is a team member of global evaluation and accreditation IALS, USA. She has guided 15 PhD, 100+ master’s thesis and currently she is guiding 7 PhD. She is also the lead in the SPARC project, 4 EU Grants, NADFM training and MCCIA committee. She has successfully led the Symbiosis Law School Pune to be among top 5 in India, robust internationalization, quality academics and research resulting in replication in NOIDA, Hyderabad and Nagpur.