Krishna Ravi Srinivas

Adjunct Professor of Law

Director, Center of Excellence in AI and Law

Dr. Krishna Ravi Srinivas is the Adjunct Professor of Law and also heads the Center of Excellence in AI and Law.

At NALSAR, his focus is on regulation/governance of emerging technologies, particularly AI. In addition to heading the Centre of Excellence in AI & Law, he is associated with NALSAR’s AI-related activities.

He has represented NALSAR at numerous AI-related events and meetings. In 2025, he delivered a course on AI, Law, and Justice on the NPTEL Platform: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_lw12/preview.

Dr. Krishna Ravi Srinivas holds a PhD from NLSIU Bangalore. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington; a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the South Centre, Geneva; a Visiting Faculty at IIM-B; and a Senior Fellow and Consultant at RIS, New Delhi.

He has written extensively on various topics, including neurotechnology, neuro-rights and legal implications, sustainable technologies, crop genome editing, and quantum technologies.

Dr. Srinivas has been involved in dozens of international research projects, including leading or co-leading projects funded by Niti Aayog, UNESCO, FAO, DFAT, the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, and UNEP/GEF.

He is involved in international initiatives and working groups such as the OECD Biofutures Expert Group and CHOICE: the Coalition for Health AI Innovation and Ethics Working Group on Ethics. He has collaborated with UNESCO as part of a team of experts on its AI and the Rule of Law program.

Additionally, he is involved with academic networks and groups focused on Technology Assessment, Responsible Research and Innovation, and Digital Sequence Information.

Education

  • 2005 : PhD, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore
  • 2012 : Postgraduate Distance Learning Course, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
  • 2005 : Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation
  • 2003 : Fulbright Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

Courses Taught

  • Governance of AI
  • Governance of Emerging Technologies

Select Publications

Forthcoming

  1. Srinivas, K.R. and Sinha, S. (2026). Global Health Diplomacy: Threats, Challenges and Opportunities. In: Science Diplomacy: Knowledge Governance to Accelerate Global Innovation, Keswani, C., Possas, C. (Eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
  2. “ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) of Neurotechnologies and Neurorights” (co-authored with Nishita Sharma), in Neurotechnology and Neuro-Rights: Legal Implications, Purvi Pokhariyal and Deepa Dubey (Eds.), Springer (2026).
  3. The case for science diplomacy 2.0 in this age of technological disruption. In J. Lüdert & M. Wählisch (Eds.), Science Diplomacy in an Era of Technological Disruption. Palgrave Macmillan.

Co-Edited Journal Issue (2025) TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, Vol. 34 No. 3 (2025): Deeply Sustainable Technologies: Beyond Extractivism, Exploitation, and Exclusion (Editors: Karen Kastenhofer, Astrid Schwarz, Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Andrea Vetter)
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/185

2024–2025

  1. “Science Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Region” in Science Diplomacy: National, Regional and Global Approaches in a Changing World, Ranjith Senaratne, Palitha Kohono (Eds.), co-authored with Bhaskar Balakrishnan and Sneha Sinha, Linus Learning, Ronkonkoma, NY, 2025 (Dec), pp. 67–86.
  2. “Innovation Governance and Crop Genome Editing” in Gene-Edited Crops: The CRISPR Solution for Global Food Security, Aftab Ahmad, Nayla Munawar & Baohong Zhang (Eds.), CRC Press, June 2025, pp. 273–281.
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9781003500933/gene-edited-crops-aftab-ahmad-nayla-munawar-baohong-zhang
  3. (with Neethu Rajam) “Can Genetic Information Make Family Life Any Simpler? A Case Note on Aparna Ajinkya Firodia v Ajinkya Arun Firodia,” Indian Law Review, 1–13.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2025.2453803

Others

  • Karen Kastenhofer, Astrid Schwarz, Krishna Ravi Srinivas, and Andrea Vetter, “Technology Assessment in ‘Imperialist Ruins’?: Towards Solidarity, Conviviality, and Care,”
    https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7270
    TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, Vol. 34 No. 3 (2025).
  1. “AI Regulation: Will Countries Be Able to Work Together?” in AI: The History of the Present – The Hindu Ebook Series, pp. 87–94, March 2025.
    https://www.thehindu.com/premium/ebook/
  2. “U.S. and China Renew Bilateral S&T Agreement | Explained,” The Hindu, 25th Dec 2024.
    https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/us-and-china-renew-bilateral-st-agreement-explained/article69025966.ece
  3. “Global Digital Compact: Advancing Digital Innovation in a Sustainable Fashion” (with Neethu Rajam), The Hindu, 9th October 2024.
    https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/global-digital-compact-advancing-digital-innovation-in-a-sustainable-fashion/article68732998.ece
  4. “Do AI Agents Foretell the Next Wave of Autonomy or Liability?” (with Neethu Rajam), The Hindu, September 3, 2024.
    https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/do-ai-agents-foretell-the-next-wave-of-autonomy-or-liability/article68598314.ece