Kamala Sankaran is a legal academic, and currently a professor of law at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, she has also been the vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu National Law University.
[1] She has served as a member of the Working Group on Migration, set up by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India;[2] and on the Delhi High Court Legal Service Committee and the Delhi State Legal Services Authority.
She obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 1999.
[3] She currently teaches at the National Law School of Indian University, Bengaluru where she is a Professor of Law, Ford Foundation Chair in Public Interest Law.
Additionally, she is the Dean of the university's research.