Executive Director of the RoundGlass India Center

Sital Kalantry

Associate Dean
Executive Director
RoundGlass India Center

Biography

Professor Sital Kalantry is a tenured professor, associate dean, and founder of the India Center. She is an expert in comparative law, business and human rights, feminist legal theory, and contract law. Her latest book, , published by Penguin Press, uses originally developed data to improve transparency and the function of the court. Her prior book, Women’s Rights and Migration, explores the consequences of the use of a contextual information to develop laws relating to reproduction in the United States. She has written over a dozen and that have been published in major legal journals such as the Cornell Law Review and the Stanford International Law Journal as well as peer-reviewed social sciences journals including the Forum for Health Economics and Policy. Her work has also appeared in the , , and (among others). She is a regular on reproductive rights, law in India, and human rights issues. Her writing has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and Indian Supreme Court.

Professor Kalantry teaches business and human rights, comparative constitutional law, and contract law. Her is informed by her scholarship as well as her seven years of experience as a corporate lawyer at two major U.S. law firms, Milbank and O’Melveny & Myers, and by her litigation experience in international and foreign courts, including the Indian Supreme Court, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Constitutional Court of Colombia.

She founded the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic, the University of Chicago International Human Rights Clinic, the Avon Global Center for Women & Justice at Cornell Law School, the Cornell India Law Center, and the India Center for Law and Justice at 怡红院 School of Law. She is the founding faculty director of an online Master’s in Legal Studies Program at Cornell Law School. In that role, she designed the curriculum, recruited tenured and adjunct professors to teach courses, created admissions criteria, and coordinated with instructional designers and other administrators for this new master's program at Cornell Law School.

She has won awards for her book, for her public interest work (from the South Asian Bar Association), and for her mentorship and support to women students at Cornell University. She has received several grants, including a $1.5 million grant to start the Avon Center for Women and Justice, a grant from NYC Visioning Committee, and teaching innovation grant. She received the Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Jindal Global Law School in India and to conduct empirical research on the Indian Supreme Court.

Professor Kalantry has degrees from Cornell University (A.B.), the London School of Economics (MsC), and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (J.D).

Education

  • B.A. 1994, Cornell University
  • Masters in Development Studies 1995, London School of Economics
  • J.D. 1998, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Publications

Books

  1. (with Aparna Chandra and William Hubbard, Penguin Press 2023).
  2. (Bert B. Lockwood ed., University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) (2018 Winner of the Best Academic Press Eric Hoffer Book Award)

Articles

  1. (Symposium), 14 ConLawNOW 37 (2023).
  2. , Transnational Legal Theory Journal (August 2022) (co-author Shireen Moti).
  3. , 30 Tulane J. of Int. and Comp. Law 43 (January 2022).
  4. , 107 Cornell L. R. Online (October 2021).
  5. , J. Obstet. Gynecol (2021) (with Annie Yau, Rachel L. Friedlander, Allison Petrini, Mary Catherine Holt, Darrell E. White, Joseph Shin)
  6. , 99 N.C. L. Rev. 49 (2020)
  7. , 11 (2) JGLR 251 (2020) (with Rachael Hancock)
  8. , 68 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 268 (2020-2021) (with Nicholas Koeppen)
  9. , 32 Nat'l. Sch. India Rev. 29 (2020)
  10. , 58(1) International Legal Materials 195 (2019)
  11. , 52 Cornell Int'l L. J. 171 (2019)
  12. , 51 Verfassung und Recht in Übersee 273 (2018) (with Aparna Chandra and William H. J. Hubbard)
  13. , 27 Cornell J. L. & Public Policy 685 (2018)
  14. , 28 Women & Crim. Just. 125 (2018) (with Emily J.Salisbury, Breanna Boppre et. al.)
  15. , 1 Indian L. Rev. 145 (2017) (with Aparna Chandra and William H. J. Hubbard)
  16. , 46 U. Balt. L. Rev. 201 (2017)
  17. , 8 Nujs L. Rev. 1 (2015)
  18. , 16(1) J. Int'l Aff., 140 (2015)
  19. , Forum On Health And Economic Policy 1 (2014) (with Arindam Nandi and Brian Citro)
  20. , 18 Ucla J. Int'l L. Foreign Aff. 61 (2013)
  21. Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being: The Threat of India鈥檚 Case Backlog