Nisha Agarwal Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Nisha Agarwal is the Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a civil rights legal non-profit in New York City. She came to NYLPI in September 2006 on a Skadden Public Interest Fellowship, and her work since that time has focused on bringing a racial justice and immigrant rights perspective to health care advocacy. In collaboration with community-based organizations and coalitions across New York City, Nisha is working on campaigns on language rights in pharmacies, racial discrimination in hospitals, medical deportation and the closure of community hospitals and clinics in medically under-served areas. Nisha is active in the South Asian Bar Association of New York, where she has served as the Vice President for Public Interest for the past three years, and she is the 2010 recipient of the North American South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Achievement Award. In addition, Nisha is the co-founder of the Harvard Law School Summer Theory Institute for public interest law students and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and received a British Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford. She received her JD from Harvard Law School in 2006.

Swethaa Ballakrishnen Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Swethaa Ballakrishnen is a socio-legal researcher interested, broadly, in the intersections between law, society, organizational emergence and globalization. In the past, she has conducted extensive studies and published work on the Indian legal and knowledge outsourcing industry, the careers of international legal professionals and the value of global legal education. She is an affiliated fellow of the Program on the Legal Profession and her work has been funded by Harvard Law School, the Stanford Graduate Research Office, the Stanford Center for South Asia, the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law and the Law and Society Association. Ms. Ballakrishnen was an Inlaks Scholar to Harvard Law School (LLM’08) and a graduate of India’s National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR’04). She is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in Sociology at Stanford University.

Mihaela Papa Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Mihaela Papa earned her Ph.D. in International Relations and her M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her academic focus has been at the nexus of international law and international relations, particularly in the fields of political economy of international institutions and sustainable development. Mihaela’s doctoral dissertation examined forum shopping as a form of disengagement from global institutions. She has taught Global Governance and International Organization at Boston University and published a book on the reform of global environmental governance. Before her graduate studies, Mihaela worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia (Multilateral Section) and completed its Diplomatic Academy. She has a B.A. in Economics-Trade from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Mihaela has been conceptualizing and managing research on the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies project as well as pursuing her research interests in (1) globalization of the legal profession; (2) the politics of lawyering in international dispute settlement; and, (3) questions of level playing field and reciprocity of law practice between the US and emerging economies. Mihaela is currently working on a comparative study of India, Brazil and China’s efforts to develop legal capacity and strategize in the context of trade and investment regimes, and on a study of India’s investment lawyering.

Jocelyn Simonson Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Jocelyn Simonson is a Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders, Inc., where since 2007 she has represented indigent clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies in criminal court. At the Bronx Defenders, Jocelyn practices a holistic model of public defense, working with colleagues across disciplines to address the causes and collateral consequences of arrests. Jocelyn graduated cum laude from HLS in 2006. Before joining the Bronx Defenders, she was a clerk for Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr. on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. As a Fellow at the Program on the Legal Profession, Jocelyn co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Law School Summer Theory Institute and the Theory-Practice Colloquium. Her article with Nisha Agarwal, “Thinking Like a Public Interest Lawyer: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy,” was published in the NYU Journal of Law and Social Change in 2010.

Bhargavi Zaveri Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Bhargavi Zaveri is a visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School, and is conducting empirical research on the role of the Indian legal profession in her foreign investment policymaking processes. Bhargavi has completed her law studies from Government Law College, Mumbai. She is a solicitor of the Bombay High Court and a member of the Bombay Incorporated Law Society, an exclusive body comprising of senior Indian legal practitioners. Having been associated with a leading Mumbai-based law firm for over 5 years, Bhargavi has developed extensive experience in the practice of Indian foreign investment laws and has advised several Fortune Global 500 financial services groups on setting up and operationalizing business in India. She has advised a leading global NGO on its Indian programs and has been a part of foreign investment and divestment transactions in the Indian insurance, power, retail and education sectors.