Surbhi Meshram is an Assistant Professor of Law and a Doctoral Scholar at NALSAR University of Law, with over six years of substantive experience in legal academia. Her teaching and research are situated at the confluence of criminal law, procedural justice, evidence law, property law, and disability rights jurisprudence.
She is presently engaged in doctoral research that interrogates the relationship between disability, equality, and the legal system, with particular emphasis on how ostensibly neutral legal structures may perpetuate exclusion for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. Her work seeks to bridge doctrinal analysis with normative concerns of access, dignity, and substantive justice.
Prior to her current appointment, she served as Assistant Professor of Law at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad, a constituent institution of Symbiosis International (Deemed University). In addition to her academic responsibilities, she held the position of Head of the Training and Placement Cell, where she conceptualised and implemented institutional strategies to strengthen professional pathways for students. Working collaboratively with a team of student coordinators, she facilitated placements for 89 students across a broad spectrum of professional destinations, including litigation chambers, corporate law firms, policy think tanks, and judicial clerkships. Her administrative tenure was marked by a systematic approach to career development grounded in professional ethics and institutional credibility.
Her pedagogical philosophy is anchored in doctrinal rigour, methodological clarity, and experiential learning. She adopts a problem-oriented teaching methodology that integrates statutory interpretation, case-law analysis, and simulated legal reasoning exercises designed to cultivate courtroom competence and analytical discipline.
By situating black-letter law within its social, constitutional, and institutional contexts, she encourages students to engage critically with both the normative foundations and practical operation of legal rules.
Her teaching portfolio includes core subjects such as Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Drafting Pleadings, Advanced course on Civil and Criminal Litigation and Practice, Evidence Law, and Property Law, which she delivers through a combination of Socratic dialogue, case-based instruction, and research-led discussion.
Beyond classroom teaching, she has been actively involved in academic governance and co-curricular development. She has adjudicated numerous national-level moot court competitions, debates, and scholarly contests, thereby fostering advocacy skills and intellectual engagement among law students. She also served as Head of the Centre for Gender Studies for two years, during which she promoted dialogue on gender justice, social equity, and intersectional vulnerabilities within the legal framework.
Her broader scholarly orientation combines doctrinal precision with policy sensitivity and interdisciplinary awareness. She is particularly interested in examining how law can function as an instrument of both regulation and social transformation. Through sustained engagement in teaching, research, mentoring, and institutional service, she seeks to foster principled legal reasoning, ethical professional identity, and a jurisprudence attentive to the demands of equality and human dignity.