Ruchira Goswami

Ruchira Goswami teaches at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata where she offers courses in Sociology, Gender and Law, Child Rights Law and Film and Law. She was the Head of the Centre for Child Rights at NUJS, set up in partnership with UNICEF. A British Chevening scholar in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, her areas of interests include feminist movements and legal reforms, children’s rights, representation of law in films and intellectual property and women’s rights. She is one of the coauthors of a book on domestic violence law entitled ‘The Violent Domestic: Law, its Practice and Strategies of Survival” (Zubaan 2022) and co-editor of a book entitled ‘Indian Cinema and Human Rights: An Intersectional Tale’ (Springer 2024). She is closely associated with several human rights and women’s rights organizations and conducts capacity building programs on human rights issues with various stakeholders.