Biography
Sital Kalantry is a professor of law and founding director of the Roundglass India Center. She is an expert in comparative law, business and human rights, and feminist legal theory. Her latest book, Court on Trial, published by Penguin Press, uses originally developed data to improve transparency and the function of the Indian Supreme Court. Her prior book, Women's Rights and Migration, reveals how stereotypes of Asian Americans and acontextual information about India were used to pass abortion-restrictive legislation in many states.
She has written over a dozen articles and book chapters that have been published in major legal journals such as the Cornell Law Review and the Stanford International Law Journal as well as peer-reviewed social sciences journals including the Forum for Health Economics and Policy. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Slate, and the Hill (among others). She is a regular media commentator on reproductive rights, law in India, and human rights issues. Her writing has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and Indian Supreme Court.
Professor Kalantry teaches business and human rights, comparative constitutional law, and contract law. Her teaching is informed by her scholarship as well as her seven years of experience as a corporate lawyer at two major U.S. law firms, Milbank and O'Melveny & Myers, and by her litigation experience in international and foreign courts, including the Indian Supreme Court, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Constitutional Court of Colombia.
She founded the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic, the University of Chicago International Human Rights Clinic, the Avon Global Center for Women & Justice at Cornell Law School, the Cornell India Law Center, and the Roundglass India Center at Seattle University. She designed the curriculum and launched the online Master's in Legal Studies Program at Cornell Law School. As Associate Dean of Graduate International Programs at Seattle University School of Law, she expanded the LLM student body tenfold.
She has won awards for her book, for her public interest work (from the South Asian Bar Association), and for her mentorship and support to women students at Cornell University. She has received several grants, including a $1.5 million grant to start the Avon Center for Women and Justice, a $2.2 million grant to start the Roundglass India Center, a grant from NYC Visioning Committee, and teaching innovation grant. She received the Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research in India.
Professor Kalantry has degrees from Cornell University (A.B.), the London School of Economics (MsC), and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (J.D).
