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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 attorney and 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, and as Dean, Faculty of Law, and Chairman, Board of Studies in Law at Goa University. He has also served as Professor of Law at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, India. He is instrumental in establishing and functionalizing Community Legal Aid Clinics set up in the Indian State of Goa. He was a member of the core team to design and teach in Winter Intersession India International & Comparative Human Rights Law Practicum, a joint venture between law schools in India and the United States. He was a member of the Committee constituted by the Chief Justice of India & Patron-in-Chief, NALSA, for preparing SOP/guidelines for the legal services institutions engaging Legal Aid/Services Clinics set up in the law schools, colleges, and universities in India; Member of Goa NGO Accreditation Committee, constituted by the Women and Child Department, Government of Goa; Member of the Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights; Member of Committee to Draft Goa State Prison Rules and Member of the Expert Committee for Diploma in Legal Literacy Program, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). He was a member of developing e-content on Access to Justice for the University Grants Commission (UGC)'s Project on E-Pathshala for Post Graduate Courses in Law. He also contributed to course content for School of Law, IGNOU, and UGC. He has published several scholarly articles and essays in leading law journals, including Clinical Law Review, Journal of Indian Law Institute, and Delhi Law Review, apart from regularly contributing to the Annual Survey of Indian Law since 2012. During his tenure as Principal at V.M. Salgaocar College of Law, he was the founding Director of the institute's Moot Court Society, its ADR Board, and Chairman of its Legal Aid Society.