Dr. Manini Syali is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Post-Graduate Legal Studies, Department of Policy and Management Studies, TERI-SAS. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University School of Legal Studies, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, and an LLM (International Law) from the South Asian (SAARC) University, Delhi. Her Ph.D. research was focused on ‘Suggesting Alternatives to the Existing International Legal Mechanisms Governing Transboundary Biodiversity Resources.’ Before joining TERI-SAS, Dr. Syali was working as an Assistant Professor (Law) at the Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi. She has also worked at Gautam Buddha University, Uttar Pradesh and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Indore Campus, as a Guest Faculty. She has also been associated with the Transboundary Rivers of South Asia (TROSA) program of Oxfam as a Youth Basin Ambassador (YBA) for Water Resource Governance, Climate Change, and Human Rights. She co-led the Youth Basin Ambassador Dialogues from April 2021 to September 2021, under the aegis of TROSA.

Publications:

• ‘Gauging the Scale of Intertwinement: Juggling Between the Use of Biometric Data and Right to Privacy’, ed. Nisha Dhanraj et al, in Handbook of Cyber Law, Data Protection and Privacy (IGI Global Publisher, 2022) ISBN: 9781799886419
• Water Pollutions and COVID-19: Interlinked Yet Separate. What can Youths do? Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins in Focus, IWA Connect, July, 2021, (available at https://iwacdn.plek.co/message/60ec2d59b471905e22597f76)
• “Youth Action for Water Governance: Indian experience on attainment of Goal 6 of the SDGs.” Oxfam Asia, August 2020 (available at: https://asia.oxfam.org/latest/blogs/youth-action-water- governance-indian- experience-attainment-goal-6-sustainable)
• “Mapping The Human Rights And Environmental Perils Of Illegal Coal Mining In Meghalaya: An Analysis”, Live Law, September 2020 (available at: https://www.livelaw.in/columns/mapping- the-human-rights-and- environmental-perils-of-illegal-coal-mining-in-meghalaya-an-analysis- 163307?infinitescroll=1#.X2ti5GOQJs9.linkedin)
• ‘Leaving the Past Behind: A new Benefit Sharing Mechanism for Bio-Diversity Governance’, ed. Dr. AP Singh and Dr. M. Sakthivel, in Sustainability of Sustainable Development in Post COVID 19 Scenario, (Satyam Publication, 2022) ISBN: 97893- 5419-646-1
• ‘Mishandling the Issue of Gender Dysphoria in India- An Analysis of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019’, International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2022 Vol.9 No.1, pp.31 – 38 (InderScience Publications, 2022)
• ‘An Undervalued Necessity: Mapping Sustainability in Solar Energy Post COVID 19’, ed. Poonam Khurana and Indira Bhardwaj, in Redefining Global Business and Economy-Post COVID 19, in Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Strategizing for the Future: The Post-Covid Economic Order, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies and University of Buraimi (FEDI, January 2021) 978-81-947986-0-6
• ‘Bearding the bear in its lair: a critical analysis on the medico-legal protocols pertaining to child sexual abuse in India, ed. GS Rajpurohit and Abhimanyu Singh, in Crimes against Children in India: Preventive and Protective Laws, (Thomson Reuters, 2021) ISBN: 978-93-90673-95-7.
• ‘Mental Disabilities in the times of COVID-19: Analyzing International Human Rights for a disability inclusive recovery’, ed. AP Singh et al, in Confronting the Pandemic Stress: Some Interdisciplinary Perspectives, (GGSIPU,2020) ISBN No.978-93-5419-275-3
• ‘Need For A Paradigm Shift In International Environmental Law For Curbing Gender Based Environmental Violence: A Feminist Critique Of State-Centrism’ , Ecofeminism And Climate Change, Cochin University Law Review (2019)
• “Whether there exists any remedy under International Environmental Law for Industrial Mishandlings”, Vidhi Mitra, Blog-Legal Aid Cell, Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, June 2020 (available at https://legalaiddnlu.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/whether-there-exists-any-remedy-under-international-environmental-law-for-industrial- mishandlings/)