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Dr. Somabha Bandopadhay is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Department of Law,

Forensic Justice and Policy Studies, National Forensic Sciences University Delhi and

Facilitator of the Asia-Pacific Hub of Global Alliance for Rights of Nature (GARN). An

enrolled advocate at the Calcutta High Court, Somabha chose to be in the academia

nurturing young minds. Before moving to NFSU, Delhi, she taught for four years at The

West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata where she introduced a

course of Rights of Nature inspired from her own experience of Earth Jurisprudence course

during her LLM years at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Somabha

regularly writes and presents on Rights of Nature apart from her research on transgender

rights. She is a transgender activist and has written and delivered lectures and trainings extensively across east of India and Andaman. She has more than a dozen of research papers and two books to her. A recipient of the Indo-Candanian Shastri Mitacs Research scholarship, Somabha pursued a comparative research on transgender violence and victimisation at the School of Criminology, University of Montreal. She has been a passionate mooter winning the prestigious Bar Council of India Moot Court Competition in 2017 and securing gold medals in her LLB and LLM days. An alumnus of School of Law, KIIT University and National Law School of India University, Bangalore, she pursued her Ph.D. at WBNUJS, Kolkata. Apart from her academic endeavours, she is a classical Manipuri dancer and has been recipient of prestigious Ministry of Culture, Government of India scholarships and has travelled the depth and breadth of the country and India. This led her to initiate a platform to interweave Arts and Law named unumte.help.