Thesis Title:
Towards a Prison Abolitionist Approach in India
Saranga Ugalmugle is a social justice and social movement advocate with over five years of experience in India. She has litigated matters pertaining to women's rights, children's rights, minority rights, labor rights, and environmental justice among others in the High court of Bombay at Bombay and Goa. She is a legal researcher who has also been associated with socio-political and civil liberties groups over the years. She has been part of fact-finding committees to Kashmir. Saranga is interested in questions of law, society, and its relationship with violence.
In 2021, she completed her graduate studies in Law and Development at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at ILS Law College, Pune, India in 2016.
Saranga is currently pursing her LLM with Certificate in University Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor where she is researching the viability of prison abolition in India. She is a 2022 fellow of the Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network and the editorial assistant to the TWAILR editorial collective.