Diksha Kale

Supervisor: Dr. Dale Spencer

Prior to joining the PhD programme at Carleton, Diksha worked as a teaching assistant at a private institute in India. She served as a volunteer for rural improvement with the National Student Service (NSS) scheme in India for three years. After graduating law school, she practised exclusively in criminal law as an attorney. As a contract instructor, she taught graduate courses in the LLM programme at the Department of Post Graduate Studies in Law at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (India). At present, she is the PhD representative of the BIPOC/EDI subcommitte at the Department of Law and Legal Studies in Carleton.

Education

• Bachelor of Social Legislation (BSL): Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University [2015]
• Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (part-time): Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University [2017]
• Bachelor of Laws (LLB): Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University [2017]
• Master of Laws (LLM), Criminal Law: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University [2019]

Areas of Interest

• Law, gender and sexuality
• Law and caste
• Gender performativity
• Queer theory
• Hate crimes
• Qualitative research methods
• Feminist legal theory
• Post-structuralist thought
• Comparative criminal law
• Indigenous legal history on Turtle Island Selected Publications:
• Kale, Diksha – “Protection of Cruelty: Against S. 498A”, published in Supremo Amicus (Vol. 4, March 2018, ISSN: 2456-9704)
• Kale, Diksha – “Case Comment: Rajesh Sharma & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr.”, published in Precedent (Vol. 2, Issue 1, ISBN: 978-93-5300-585-6)
• Kale, Diksha – “Sexual Violence by the Armed Forces: A Critique of Governmental Policy”, published in Droit Penale: Indian Law Journal on Crime and Criminology (Vol. 2, Issue 2, ISSN: 2456-7280)
• (Forthcoming) Kale, Diksha – ‘Red Power’: What the World Can Learn from Indigenous Legal History in Canada (book chapter)

Scholarships & Awards

• Rajarshri Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Merit Scholarship, Maharashtra (India): 2010
• ‘Best Mooter’ at National Moot Court Competition, Aurangabad (India): 2016
• National Overseas Scholarship (India): 2019
• K. V. Kulkarni Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the LLM programme (India) : 2020