Dr. Akanksha Jumde
Ph.D., LL.M, B.SL.LLB (Hons.)Lecturer - Business Law-613379
School of Business and Law
Dr Akanksha Jumde is a Business and Corporate Law Lecturer at the College of Business, School of Business and Law-Sydney Campus. Akanksha specializes in corporate law, commercial law and business law, as well as intellectual property rights law. Her work focuses on various dimensions related to corporate law including CSR and corporate governance. Akanksha has expertise across the fields of CSR, corporate governance, corporations law, and the use of socio-legal empirical legal and interdisciplinary research methods to different facets of corporate law and intellectual property law.
Before joining Central Queensland University, Akanksha taught at the University of Tasmania as a law lecturer. She taught corporate and business law to law and accountancy students at both Bachelors' and Masters' level. She was a sessional lecturer, tutor and PhD scholar at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Melbourne. For her PhD research, she received a full scholarship from Deakin University (the Deakin University Post-Graduate Research Scholarship) through the Government of Australia. Akanksha’s PhD thesis also received a faculty-level nomination for the Alfred Deakin Best Doctoral Thesis Award at the Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University. She was selected as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the prestigious EW Barker Centre for Law and Business at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Akanksha has also worked in number of research and teaching roles in various countries such as India, USA and Singapore.
She has been a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her research work and academic achievements. Recently, she was conferred with the ‘Young Intellectual Property (IP) Scholar of Asia’ award for her research paper on ‘Utility Models’ by the Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore.
Background
B.S.L.LL. B (ILS Pune, India), LLM (UNH, USA), PhD (Deakin, Australia), PDF (NUS, Singapore)
Universities Studied At
Doctor of Philosophy- Ph.D. (2018-2021) Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia-Ph.D. in Law (Corporate Law and Corporate Governance) (2021)
LLM (Masters of Law) (Hons.) Franklin Pierce Law School (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center) University of New Hampshire, USA (2013).
B.S.L.LLB (Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies and Bachelor of Laws) (2007-2012)-ILS Law College, Savitri Bai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune), India
Universities Worked At
College of Business, Central Queensland University (CQUniversity), Sydney Campus- (November 2022-Present)
Faculty of Law, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania (UTAS)-Sandy Bay, Hobart, TA (Jan 2022-October 2022)
National University of Singapore, Singapore 2021-Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF), EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, NUS Singapore (2021)
Sessional Lecturer (Deakin Law School)-Corporate/Commercial Law-Deakin University, Melbourne-2019-2021
Assistant Professor (Law)-National Law University, Jodhpur, India (2017-18)
Awards
National and International
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (PDF), EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2021-2022)
- ‘The Young IP Scholar of Asia’ by the ARCIALA, School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU) for the 4th Annual IP Scholars in Asia, Works-in-Progress Conference, 30th to 31st January 2019.
Deakin University, Australia
- “Deakin University International Post Graduate Research Scholarship (DUPRS), 2018 (through the Australian Government).
- Faculty Nomination, Alfred Deakin Doctoral Thesis Medal (Award for Best Doctoral Thesis, 2020-21).
Franklin Pierce Law School, University of New Hampshire, USA
- The Franklin Pierce Law Center Certificate of Intellectual Property Laws
- Merit-based tuition scholarship for pursuing LLM coursework
ILS Law College, University of Pune, India
- “Best Researcher” for paper titled, “Environmental Jurisprudence in India: A Legacy of Legislation or Lease of the Judiciary?” in Giri and Giri National Legal Research Paper Competition, October 2009, New Delhi, India
“Best Researcher”, for paper, “An Analysis of the Definition of Trafficking in the Protocol to the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime”, organized by Giri and Giri National Research Paper Competition, New Delhi, December-January 2010-2011.
Professional Memberships
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN);
Australia and New Zealand Society for International Law (ANZSIL);
Corporate Law Teachers’ Association (CLTA)
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4801 Commercial law
- 4804 Law in context
- 4805 Legal systems
At the level of Associate Supervisor
