Law and Anthropology, Legal Pluralism, State Enforced Religious Laws/Personal Law, Dispute Processing

2023: Visiting Faculty at Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts (Pune), ILS Law College (Pune), Maharashtra National Law University (Mumbai)
2019 – 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay
2017: Doctorate from Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale)
2014 – 2017: Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle (Saale)
2010-2012: Research Associate, National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune
2009: Master in Laws from Queen Mary College, University of London
2007 – 2009: Litigation Associate at Negandhi, Shah and Himayatullah for Bombay High Court
2007: Bachelor in Laws from ILS Law College, University of Pune

Kalindi Kokal has been working in research at the disciplinary intersection of law and anthropology. Her research spans the terrain of dispute processing as a site to understand diversity in governance, meanings of justice and notions of the self. Kokal’s monograph titled State Law, Dispute Processing and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India was published in 2020. She is actively associated in a women’s livelihood programme at Avani, a not-for-profit organisation in India and teaches courses on personal law, social justice and law society at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts and the Maharashtra National Law School.

Law and Anthropology, Legal Pluralism, State Enforced Religious Laws/Personal Law, Dispute Processing

2023: Visiting Faculty at Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts (Pune), ILS Law College (Pune), Maharashtra National Law University (Mumbai)
2019 – 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay
2017: Doctorate from Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale)
2014 – 2017: Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle (Saale)
2010-2012: Research Associate, National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune
2009: Master in Laws from Queen Mary College, University of London
2007 – 2009: Litigation Associate at Negandhi, Shah and Himayatullah for Bombay High Court
2007: Bachelor in Laws from ILS Law College, University of Pune

Kalindi Kokal has been working in research at the disciplinary intersection of law and anthropology. Her research spans the terrain of dispute processing as a site to understand diversity in governance, meanings of justice and notions of the self. Kokal’s monograph titled State Law, Dispute Processing and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India was published in 2020. She is actively associated in a women’s livelihood programme at Avani, a not-for-profit organisation in India and teaches courses on personal law, social justice and law society at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts and the Maharashtra National Law School.

Research Project at CAS-E