Karuna Nundy
Advocate Karuna Nundy | |
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.jpg) Nundy at Press Club of India in 2018 | |
| Born | 4 January 1976[1] |
Karuna Nundy is an Indian lawyer.[2][3][4]
Education
She received a degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.[5] After a short stint as a TV journalist[5][6] she studied law at Cambridge University,[6][5] and later pursued LL.M. from Columbia University, New York.[7] Nundy worked as a lawyer in United Nations.[5]
Activism
She is a lawyer at the Supreme Court of India and the focus of her work is on constitutional law,[8] commercial litigation and arbitration, media law and legal policy.[9][7] She was included by an Economic Times jury in a list of 'Corporate India's Fastest Rising Women Leaders' which cited her as being 'famous in the corporate world for her expertise in commercial law'.[10][11]Nundy has also played a significant role in drafting the anti-rape bill after the 2012 Delhi gang rape.[12]. In 2019, the UK foreign office appointed the lawyer to a new panel of experts to develop legal frameworks to protect freedom of the media across the globe.[13]
References
- ^ @karunanundy (11 April 2018). "Happy Birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 June 2019 – via Twitter. {{Cite tweet}}: |date= / |number= mismatch (help)
- ^ Reporter, Dominique Mosbergen; Post, The Huffington (24 November 2015). "How One Female Lawyer in India Is Fighting For Women's Basic Rights". Huffington Post. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ "Inspiring life of Karuna Nundy- India's finest Lawyers – MotivateMe.in". motivateme.in. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ Arya, Asmita (1 September 2018). "Meet Karuna Nundy, The Revolutionary Powerhouse Who Fought For Victims Of The Bhopal Gas Tragedy". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d Ghoshal, Somak (10 August 2013). "Freedom from injustice - An agent of change". Mint. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ a b VagaBomb (16 May 2016). "Meet Powerhouse Advocate Karuna Nundy, Who Is Fighting for the Rights of Every Indian Woman". VagaBomb. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Meet The Lawyer Who Fought For Bhopal Disaster Survivors And Many Other Groundbreaking Things - WittyFeed India". Dailyhunt. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Karuna Nundy: Without fear or favour".
- ^ "The Coalition". Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "ET Women Ahead: Corporate India's fastest rising women leaders". The Economic Times. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Famous Female Advocates in India Who Committed Their Lives f - PATHLEGAL". www.pathlegal.in. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ Lal, Parineeti (22 May 2018). "Meet the Lawyer who fought Nirbhaya's Case- Karuna Nundy". Swadesh | Official Blog of Unnati Silks. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ "Indian lawyer Karuna Nundy on UK panel for new media framework". Hindustan Times. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
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