Prof. (Dr.) Harpreet Kaur is the Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur. She was a Professor of Law and Registrar at National Law University Delhi and joined on deputation at National Law University, Jodhpur. She teaches Corporate Laws, Securities Regulations and Antitrust laws. She has been the director of the Center for Corporate Law and Governance at National Law University, Delhi.
She has been recently nominated as a Member of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and a Member of Advisory Group on Ease of Doing Business, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. She was a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Scholar at Emory Law School in 2021. She has been earlier a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Miami Dade College in 2016. She has recently been awarded Elizabeth Evatt Fellowship by Sydney Law School for the year 2024. She served as Chair Professor of Indian Studies on Rotating Chair established by Indian Institute of Cultural Affairs at Faculty of Law, Leibniz University, Germany in 2015. She was a visiting faculty to the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway.
She has authored a textbook on Business and Corporate Laws and co-authored textbooks on Competition Law, Jurisprudence, Interpretation of Statutes, Law of Torts and Labour and Industrial Laws. She has edited a book on ‘Facets of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in India published by Springer and ‘Women and Entrepreneurship in India’ published by Routledge in 2021. Both the books are Scopus indexed and the book on ‘Women and Entrepreneurship in India’ is also included in the Web of Science Master List.
Her co- edited Handbook on ‘Shareholder Engagement and Voting’ has been published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She was recognised as Exceptional Women of Excellence by Women Economic Forum in 2022. Within 10 months of her joining as the Vice- Chancellor of NLU Jodhpur, Rajasthan, her name was included in the list of ‘Luminaries of Rajasthan’ by India Today Group in June 2024.
She has been promoting women entrepreneurship and women business researchers. She launched India Chapter of Daughters of Themis Network in 2023 for promotion of research by Women Business law scholars.
