Dr. Lovely Dasgupta

Dr. Lovely Dasgupta, has been in the teaching profession for last sixteen years. She is an alumnus of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, from where she has done her LL.M, M.Phil and Ph.D. She has been primarily teaching Contract and Commercial Laws, at the Undergraduate Level and Competition Law at the Postgraduate Level. She has been one of the founding Indian academia to introduce a taught course on Sports Law. In the process for the past sixteen years she has been writing and researching on issues within the field of Sports Law. In addition she has also published on Competition Law. Till date she has published four books on Sports Law and Competition Law. In addition she has also published on Legal Education, which has been one of highly cited work. Amongst others, Prof. Werner Menski in ‘Shah Bano, Narendra Modi and reality checks about global understandings of Indian law’. Nirma University Law Journal (Ahmedabad), Volume 1, Issue 1(2011), has cited pp. 7-26 of ‘Reforming Indian Legal education: Linking Research and Teaching, Journal of Legal Education, Volume 59, Number 3’ (See Footnote No. 15 of Menski). Currently she is heading the Centre for Sports Law and Policy at NUJS. She is the only Indian amongst the current members of the International Network of Doping Research, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.