Research Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession
Research Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street #G-24
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-9134
Swethaa Ballakrishnen was an Inlaks Scholar to the Harvard LL.M class’08 and a ’04 graduate of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (where she won the Amancharla Krishna Murti Memorial Gold Medal for the best student of her graduating batch). In 2008, she joined PLP and EALS as a Joint Research Fellow with a South Asia specific research agenda.
Before coming to Harvard, Ms. Ballakrishnen was an international finance lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., an intern at the Supreme Court of India with Justice A. Pasayat and spent a year teaching international finance and legal methods at two national law schools in Hyderabad and Bhopal, India.
At HLS, her graduate program had a shared focus in international finance and the sociology of legal education and her recent research has been on the evolution of law schools and students in/from South Asia and the corresponding implications on the legal profession. At PLP, her research has been concentrated on further study of the profession in South Asia with particular focus on the globalization and off shoring of legal services in India. This past winter, Ms. Ballakrishnen was on a PLP Research Grant in India, doing field research on the growth and of the country’s growing legal outsourcing industry. She is currently working on finalizing these findings.
In addition to her current fellowship at HLS, Ms. Ballakrishnen works closely with Professor Marc Galanter (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on the legal profession, consults periodically on legal education-related projects for the Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland, OR) and is scheduled to start her PhD in the Sociology of Education at Stanford University this coming Fall.
LLM, Harvard Law School, 2008
BA; BL, NALSAR University of Law (Hyderabad, India), 2004
Module on Securities Law for fourth year law students , NALSAR University of Law
Seminar on Indian Investment Laws for final year law students , NALSAR University of Law
Module on Family Laws for first year law students , NALSAR University of Law
“I’m calling my lawyer (in India!)” : Legal Process Outsourcing and the layered liberalization of the Indian legal profession
Law and Society Annual Conference
May 31, 2009
Denver
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Where did we come from? Where do we go?: an enquiry into the pedagogy and systems of legal education in India
Biennial Conference of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association
April 1, 2009
City University of Hong Kong
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Culture Wars: Perspectives on Doing Business in India
March 5, 2009
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Oregon Judicial Panel and International Perspectives
(with Justice Paul J. De Muniz, Judge Darleen Ortega and Judge Marco Hernandez)
February 12, 2009
Lewis & Clark Law School
Portland, Oregon
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Law and Social Sciences Research Network Inaugural Conference
(Conference Participant)
January 8-11, 2009
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
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Globalisation and its Impact on Legal Education and the Legal Profession
(Round Table Discussion Participant)
January 9, 2009
Jindal Global Law School
Jindal Centre, New Delhi
The Role of Law in Developing and Transition Countries
December 5-6, 2008
Global Legal Studies Center
University of Wisconsin Madison
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Hari and Kumar go to HLS: The South Asian Graduate Experience at Harvard Law School
December 4, 2008
University of Wisconsin Madison
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