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Assoc. Prof. Swechhya Sangroula

Contact: Suryabinyak-4, Dadhikot, Bhaktapur, Bagmati, Nepal | 01-6634455, 01-6634663

Email : swechhya.sangroula@ksl.edu.np

Designation: Associate Professor / Head of Department (International Relations)

Biography

Swechhya Sangroula is a legal professional and academic based in Nepal. Swechhya holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Kathmandu School of Law (2014). She obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School (2019). At Harvard, she focused on Public International Law, Global Governance, Geopolitics, Negotiations and Dispute Systems Design. For a semester, she worked at the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program on ADR and Access to Justice in Massachusetts. After graduating in 2019, she returned to Harvard Law School as a Visiting Scholar and an LL.M Advisor. 
 
At KSL, Sangroula currently teaches Principles of Interpretation in Law, with discussions at the intersection of legal philosophy, jurisprudence, critical thinking, governance and practice. Since 2021, she has served in the Editorial Board of Nepali Army Unity Journal. She is a resource person for the Nepali Army, teaching courses on International Law, Lawfare, and International Relations. She is interested in mentoring young students, particularly in internaional law moot courts. In 2025, she judged the International Philip C. Jessup Rounds in  Washington D.C. as a Rusty Dalferes Fellow. 

 

Fellowships & Designations

  1. Rusty Dalferes Laureate (2025): International Law Students Association (ILSA)
  2. Cogan Scholar (2018-2019) : Harvard Law School 
  3. Graduate Program Fellow & LL.M Advisor (2019-2020): Harvard Law School 
  4. Presidential Gold Medal Award (2015) : Purbanchal University 

 

Research Projects

  1. Amicus Brief Submitted at the United States Supreme Court on Dobbs v. Jackson (Brief of International And Comparative Legal Scholars as Amici Curiae )
  2. Stakeholder Assessment: Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration & Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program
  3. Kathmandu School of Law & Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR): Enhancing Good Governance and Human Rights Protection in the context of Law enforcement and Criminal Justice Actors
  4. Consultancy for International IDEA Nepal for the Gender and Intersectionality project.
  5. American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative Nepal, Human Trafficking Assessment Tool (HTAT) in Nepal

Publication

  1. Deriving Rights from the Penumbra: Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court of Nepal. The Informal: South Asian Journal of Human Rights and Social Justice, 1(1), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.3126/informal.v1i1.69164
  2. ‘Selected developments in human rights and democratisation during 2015: Asia- pacific’ (2017) 1 Global Campus Human Rights Journal 179-193 
  3. ‘A Right to Water’ in International Human Rights Law: Flow from Implicit to Explicit Right’ (2017) Kathmandu School of Law Review. DOI:10.46985/jms.v5i2.988

 

Research Interest/Research Area

  1. Negotiations and Dispute Systems Design
  2. International Legal Theory 
  3. Global Economic Justice/ Law and Inequality
 

Faculty In News

Transforming Legal Education: Kathmandu School of Law Hosts Three-Day Seminar on Innovation and Emerging Scholarship

July 06, 2025

Congratulations to our Faculties

July 10, 2024

Professors Geeta Pathak Sangroula and Amritha V. Shenoy Deliver Papers at International Colloquium

March 11, 2024

Successful completion of Revitalization Assembly

February 28, 2024

Faculty Awarded Best Paper Presentation Award

December 08, 2023

KSL representation in the International Forum

December 04, 2023

About KSL

Kathmandu School of Law was established in year 2000 as a community-based, non-profit academic institution. KSL is the first institution in the country to initiate 5 year undergraduate degree in Law.

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