Sanjeevi Shanthakumar

Shantakumar was born on 13 July 1969 in Tamilnadu, India. Shanthakumar is an alumnus of Madras University, having received his bachelor's degree, master's and doctoral law degree. Before joining the legal academia, he had practiced at the Madras High Court for seven years.

He has served as the pro vice chancellor and dean, School of Law at G.D. Goenka University, Gurgaon; founder dean, Faculty of Law at SGT University, Gurgaon; founder director of ITM Law School, ITM University, Gurgaon; founder director of MATS Law School, MATS University, Raipur; controller of examinations and associate professor of law at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur; senior lecturer at Government Law College, Madurai and Government Law College, Chennai. Before joining the legal academia he had practiced at the Madras High Court for seven years as an advocate. He had his training on teaching law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore under a World Bank funded project and at the Cardiff Law School, Cardiff, Wales, UK under a British Council funded project. He has been involved in training the Law Teachers on Law Teaching and Legal Research at various universities in India as part of a British Council funded project. He had visited premier universities across the globe, including Oxford, to understand the best practices in legal education. He has been a very active member of the International Association of Law Schools,^[3] USA. He was awarded the Environmental Law Champions Development Award by the Asian Development Bank.^{[citation needed]}

Shanthakumar had executed the Environmental Law Capacity Building Project funded by the World Bank; the Law Teaching and Legal Research Skills Project of the British Council and Cardiff University, UK, and a research project on audio piracy funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Currently, he is the chair of the Environmental Law Study Group of the International Association of Law Schools and a member of the Teaching and Capacity Building Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.