Somabha Bandopadhay

Somabha Bandopadhay is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, Forensic Justice and Policy Studies, National Forensic Sciences University, Delhi who was formerly associated with The West Bengal National University for Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata, India. Somabha won the prestigious Bar Council of India Inter-University Moot Court competition in 2017 and was adjudged the Best speaker as well as the Best Female Advocate that ensured her a scholarship from the Council for a year. Somabha, who pursues active research on transgender rights in India has been awarded the Indo-Canadian Shastri Mitacs Scholarship to pursue research on victimization of transgender persons and pursued her research at the School of Criminology, University of Montreal, Canada. She has more than 20 articles, 5 book chapters and an edited book to her credit. She happens to serve in the advisory panel of several organisations including NGOs working on transgender rights.