Medha Damojipurapu

Medha Damojipurapu is a CILRAP Fellow and an Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India. She has previously worked in the Disputes (Litigation and Arbitration) Team of Trilegal, a full-service law firm in India, and as a Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant to late Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar at the Supreme Court of India.

She holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. She participated and emerged a semi-finalist at the 31st edition of the Jean Pictet Competition and attended the Winter Course at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2019. Her research interests lie in the areas of the law on military occupation, autonomous weapon systems, and the correlation between armed conflicts and refugee movements.

Some publications of Medha Damojipurapu:

“Navigating the Meaning of Hate Speech and Sedition in India”, in Policy Brief Series, No. 138 (2022), Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels, 2022 (co-authored with Madan B. Lokur).

“Language, Themes and Responses to Hate Speech in India”, in Policy Brief Series, No. 132 (2022), Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels, 2022.

“Language and Connotation in Contemporary Hate Speech in India”, in Occasional Paper Series, No. 11 (2022), Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels, 2022.