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Adv. Avani Bansal

Adv. Avani Bansal

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About Adv. Avani Bansal

Avani is an Advocate in the Supreme Court of India, and founding partner of ‘Avani Bansal Chambers‘ (ABC). She runs ‘Hamara Kanoon’, a legal awareness project which explains important laws in simple Hindi in a video format on YouTube.

Avani has stellar academic records winning eight gold medals at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India, where she pursued B.A. LL.B. (Honors). Thereafter she pursued BCL and M.Phil in Law from University of Oxford (UK), and LL.M. from Harvard Law School (USA).

While at Oxford, she was the President of Oxford Lawyers Without Borders, Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth  Law Journal and was the first law student to be ‘highly commended’ as part of the Vice Chancellor’s Civic Award scheme for her pro-bono work and community caring. She was a recipient of scholarship for an Academic Exchange Programme to Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany) and has interned with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva amongst others. At Harvard, Avani was the Co-President of her LL.M. class, Vice-President (Speaker Series) of Harvard India Student Group (HISG) and LL.M. Representative with South Asian Law Students Association. She received the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership at Harvard Law School.

Avani is passionate about access to justice, gender rights, pro-bono policy in India, constitutional law, environmental law and social change. She has delivered lectures around law schools in India and has been featured in the Week, Times of India, and in a short documentary on travelling amongst others. She loves to read and write in her spare time and has written several editorial pieces for Times of India. Link to Articles on TOI :

https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/author/avanibansal/

She can be contacted at advocateavanibansal@gmail.com.

Here are some other links that have covered Avani’s work :

Interview in Superlawyer : https://superlawyer.in/avani-bansal-on-winning-9-gold-medals-her-experience-as-a-judicial-clerk-studying-bcl-m-phil-from-oxford-and-litigation-at-district-high-court/

 

LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/avanibansal?trk=hp-identity-name

 

Short Video Covering Her Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4jHvhfPbE

 

 

Recent Interview with Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire on the SC judges row at Facebook Live : https://www.facebook.com/thewire.in/videos/1727916813949308/?hc_ref=ARRIlqjbuagl5RHoMzXkQJeibTWDr5Vz7KTirFdy-iciK7aa37JeUrKjNyw4UXdAXNw&pnref=story

 

Interview in Hindi with ‘The Wire’ on Judges Loya’s death : http://thewirehindi.com/31821/hum-bhi-bharat-episode-17-judge-loya-and-indian-judiciary/

 

‘The Week’’s  Cover story : http://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/gender-discrimination-in-judiciary.html

 

Link to the project  - ‘Hamara Kanoon’ which aims to create legal awareness by explaining simple laws in Hindi: https://www.youtube.com/user/AvaniBansal/videos

Coverage by Oxford Human Rights Hub of Hamara Kanoon : http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/hamara-kanoon-our-law-a-tech-solution-to-create-legal-awareness-in-india/

 

BBC Hindi Interview on Right to Privacy : https://www.facebook.com/bbchindi/videos/1700556199975948/

 

CNN News 18 Panel Discussion on Right to Privacy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3LsP6iMe8&t=18s

 

Also, she is one of the 25 professional covered in the book titled ‘On The Rise (Inspiring Stories of Young Legal Professionals in India)’ published by Universal.

 

🧑‍⚖️ Bar Council & Association Memberships

Supreme Court Bar Association

Membership ID

L11772

🎖 Honors & Awards

Honour

• Awarded ‘LIFE’ Award by South Asia Region Round Square Social Service for special effort in raising funds and participating to help the destitute and the distressed, 2005-06 • The Chandok Trophy for the Best All-round student at the Daly College, Indore (India), 2005-06 • The Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Overall Best Perfomance in B.A.LL.B (Honors), 2011 • The Dinesh Prasad Shrivastava Memorial Gold Medal for Best Graduating Student B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • Late Syed Afzaal Ahmed Rizvi Gold Medal for Best Performance in Criminal Law and Advocacy in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • The Dinesh Prasad Shrivastava Memorial Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Constitutional Law in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • Late Vighnaharan Singh, Advocate, Kabirdham Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Intellectual Property Rights (Honours) B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • The University Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Sociology in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • Syed Wakil Ahmed Rizvi Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Civil Procedure Code, Drafting, Pleading & Conveyancing, Transfer of Property Act and Alternative Dispute Resolution in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • Late Shri Deepak Agrawal Memorial Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Mercantile Law Group B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011 • Highly Commended as part of the Vice Chancellor Civic Award Scheme, 2013, University of Oxford, UK (First Law Student To Be Recognised So) • Given the Dean’s Award For Community Leadership at Harvard Law School, May 2016

Award

• Given the Dean’s Award For Community Leadership at Harvard Law School, May 2016

Award

• Highly Commended as part of the Vice Chancellor Civic Award Scheme, 2013, University of Oxford, UK (First Law Student To Be Recognised So)

Award

• Late Shri Deepak Agrawal Memorial Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Mercantile Law Group B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• Syed Wakil Ahmed Rizvi Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Civil Procedure Code, Drafting, Pleading & Conveyancing, Transfer of Property Act and Alternative Dispute Resolution in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• The Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Overall Best Perfomance in B.A.LL.B (Honors), 2011

Award

• The Dinesh Prasad Shrivastava Memorial Gold Medal for Best Graduating Student B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• Late Syed Afzaal Ahmed Rizvi Gold Medal for Best Performance in Criminal Law and Advocacy in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• The Dinesh Prasad Shrivastava Memorial Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Constitutional Law in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• Late Vighnaharan Singh, Advocate, Kabirdham Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Intellectual Property Rights (Honours) B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• The University Gold Medal for Securing Highest CGPA in Sociology in B.A. LL.B. (Honours), 2011

Award

• Awarded ‘LIFE’ Award by South Asia Region Round Square Social Service for special effort in raising funds and participating to help the destitute and the distressed, 2005-06

Award

• The Chandok Trophy for the Best All-round student at the Daly College, Indore (India), 2005-06

📚 Publications & Books

“The Pursuit of Best – One Step At A Time“ in the Book titled “On The Rise : Inspiring Stories Of Young Legal Professionals In India”
Mismanaging India’s Temples - Violation of ‘Freedom to Practice One’s Own Religion’? Free Speech Debate
Want To Land A Job After Finishing Your LL.M. Abroad? Tap Into The Human Factor
It Is Not About The Length Of Your Skirt, Girl!
Hamara Kanoon (Our Law) : A Tech Solution To Create Legal Awareness in India
India Needs To Debate About Law On Adultery
My Menstrual Blood: There Are Overwhelming Taboos Around Menstruation In India, Which Makes A Girl’s Life Miserable
Kerala high court judgment swims against the times: From Harvard to JNU, politics is the life blood of education
Clinical Legal Education As A Means To Advance Access To Justice In India (Part I)
Clinical Legal Education As A Means To Advance Access To Justice In India (Part I)
Interview Published In ‘The Analysis’
Interview Published In ‘SuperLawyers’
Interview Published In ‘Times Of India’

📊 Content Overview

All Expertise Areas
Arbitration Bail Civil Law Constitution Law Criminal Law Divorce Environmental Law Fundamental Rights of Citizen Human Rights Indirect Taxes/GST/VAT Legal Training Litigation PIL Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Will Writ Petition