Karuna Nundy

Advocate

Karuna Nundy
Nundy at Press Club of India in 2018
Born (1976-01-04) 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
  1. @karunanundy (11 April 2018). "Happy Birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 June 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. 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.
  3. "Inspiring life of Karuna Nundy- India's finest Lawyers – MotivateMe.in". motivateme.in. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  4. 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.
  5. Ghoshal, Somak (10 August 2013). "Freedom from injustice - An agent of change". Mint. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  6. VagaBomb (16 May 2016). "Meet Powerhouse Advocate Karuna Nundy, Who Is Fighting for the Rights of Every Indian Woman". VagaBomb. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  7. "Meet The Lawyer Who Fought For Bhopal Disaster Survivors And Many Other Groundbreaking Things - WittyFeed India". Dailyhunt. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  8. "Karuna Nundy: Without fear or favour".
  9. "The Coalition". Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  10. "ET Women Ahead: Corporate India's fastest rising women leaders". The Economic Times. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  11. "Famous Female Advocates in India Who Committed Their Lives f - PATHLEGAL". www.pathlegal.in. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  12. 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.
  13. "Indian lawyer Karuna Nundy on UK panel for new media framework". Hindustan Times. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.


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