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Shree has an academic as well as a policy background, having studied at Dr. RMLNLU (BA LLB (Hons.)), completed an LLM in Legal Theory at NYU, and earned her PhD at LSE Law School. Before joining academia, she worked in policy research on urban local governance and civil liberties. She currently teaches Public Law, Introduction to Law and Legal Theory, and Jurisprudence at the University of Nottingham's School of Law. Previously, she taught Public Law and Legal Research and Writing Skills at LSE Law School. Shree is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Her research sits at the intersection of law and political theory, with a strong emphasis on the concepts of citizenship, freedom, power, and authority within modern constitutional frameworks. Her doctoral thesis, titled Arendtian Constitutional Theory: An Examination of Active Citizenship in Democratic Constitutional Orders, draws on Hannah Arendt's work to propose a constitutional theory centred on the experience of active citizenship. Shree's academic interests extend to critical legal and political theory as well as comparative constitutional law. Currently, she is exploring the value of civil disobedience and how institutions and civil society should engage with protests and popular social movements.
Shree has presented her work at numerous conferences and research centres across the UK, Europe, and the USA, and is a member of an international working group on Democratizing Globalization.
Expertise Summary
Shree specialises in UK Public Law, comparative constitutional law, and legal theory, with a particular focus on the challenges facing constitutional democracies in the Global South. Her work is deeply informed by critical and feminist perspectives, offering a nuanced analysis of the crises that contemporary constitutional orders encounter. Shree adopts an interdisciplinary approach to law, drawing on insights from sociology, political philosophy, and history to enrich her analysis. She is also deeply engaged with the legal frameworks that shape citizenship, including fundamental rights to life and liberty, freedom of expression and assembly, and the right to protest.
In her previous work, Shree has focused on public health infrastructure in India and conducted policy research on urban local governance. She continues to be interested in these areas, viewing them as integral to the experience of democratic citizenship in the modern world. While her current research is situated in explicating a philosophically grounded theory of active citizenship for modern constitutional orders, for her future research, she aims to explore the impact of tangible and intangible public infrastructure on socio-economic conditions and the role of law and juridical instruments in providing and restricting access to the material conditions of active citizenship.
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