Sapana Pradhan Malla (Nepali: सपना प्रधान मल्ल) (born November 15, 1963 -) is a Nepalese Supreme Court Judge since August 1, 2016[1] and a former member of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly under proportional representation system from the CPN-UML party.

[4] She holds a Master in Comparative Law (MCL) from the University of Delhi.

She also has a Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration (MC/MPA) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

But when you want to reform the law, you need to challenge everything: the state, the biases against women, culture, religion and a majority of patriarchal views.

"[6] In 2008, Malla and Yanar Mohammed were joint winners of the Gruber Prize for Women's Rights (given by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation[7]) for her work related to "public interest litigation in [Nepal], including equality in inheritance, legalization of abortion, criminalization of marital rape, equality in marriage and family law.