Human Rights and Legal Services for Children and Youth

As Professor of Law and Founding Dean of School of Law at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, she designed the unique LLM course on Access to Justice, for preparing community lawyers. She has been involved in several law reform projects and capacity building of judicial and law enforcement officials. She was Project Director of field action projects such as Legal Services Clinic for the marginalized and vulnerable groups and Chunauti (challenge) for rehabilitation and social reintegration of orphan children in institutions. Regularly invited as Amicus Curiae and expert by Mumbai and Delhi High Courts in Public Interest Litigation, she was also the Invited Expert at the UNESCO High Level meeting on ECCE (early childhood care and education) and with UNODC on Education for Justice. She does consultancy assignments for United Nations and Global Justice Sector Workforce, and continues her capacity building and law reform work.

Professor David Tushaus is Associate Dean of Graduate and Experiential Education at Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan. He was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in 2012 at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. He also served as a Fulbright Specialist for the University of The Gambia Faculty of Law in 2017. He was an International Clinician in Residence and Fulbright Specialist in Myanmar in the summer of 2018 and 2019. He was then an Ambassadors Distinguished Scholar at Bahir Dar School of Law, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Professor Tushaus was a staff attorneyand clinic director for the Midwest Innocence Project and the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Prior to that he was a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies and Social Work, and chairperson for ten years, at Missouri Western State University. He developed service-learning approaches to teaching legal research, legal drafting, election law, and human rights. Earlier, he worked for Legal Aid of Western Missouri obtaining grants, supervising staff and handling cases involving government benefits, health care, consumer issues, domestic violence, disabilities, and farm problems. Awards for his advocacy include a 1995 Missouri Health Law Advocacy Award for state-wide work for consumer protections. More recently, he received the Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Education in 2011.


Dr. M.R.K. Prasad is Professor of Law at V.M. Salgaocar College of Law, Goa, India. He has served the same institute as Principal from 2015 to 2020,an