Menaka Guruswamy, Date of Birth

Menaka Guruswamy

Lawyer

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1974

Profession: lawyer, activist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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MenakaGuruswamy

Dr.
Menaka Guruswamy (born November 27, 1974) is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India.
She is a B.R.
Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York.
Guruswamy has been visiting faculty at Yale Law School, New York University School of Law and University of Toronto School of Law.
She is known for having played a significant role in many landmark cases before the Supreme Court, including the Section 377 case, the bureaucratic reforms case, the Augusta Westland bribery case, the Salwa Judum case, Right to Education case among others.
She is assisting the Supreme Court as Amicus Curie in the case pertaining to the alleged extrajudicial killings of 1528 persons in Manipur.Guruswamy has advised the United Nations Development Fund, New York and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York and UNICEF South Sudan on various aspects of International Human Rights Law and has also supported the constitution-making process in Nepal.