Faculty

Dr.Jagdish W. Khobragade

Assistant Professor of Law
jkhobragade@nlunagpur.ac.in

Dr. Jagdish Wamanrao Khobragade joined Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur, as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2020. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the senior scale. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh from 2013 to 2020. He has completed B.A. LL.B, (a five-year course), from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Law (Main Branch), RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, in 2007. He was enrolled as an advocate at the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in the year 2007. In 2010, he earned his LL.M. degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He also served as Assistant Project Director at Babasaheb Ambedkar Training Institute, Pune. He has also worked at Transport Corporation of India Private Limited for one year. He was awarded a Ph.D. by Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur, for his thesis titled 'Patent Regime and Access to Medicine: A Human Rights Approach' in 2023. Additionally, he served as Assistant Registrar (Administration-II) at MNLU, Nagpur for one and half year. He is also in-charge of PG Diploma Courses at MNLU, Nagpur.

With over 12 years of teaching experience in the field of law, his areas of interest encompass Labour Laws, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Public Health, Social Inclusion, Maritime Laws, and Human Rights. He has actively participated in national and international seminars, presenting research papers on various topics. He has delivered more than 40 guest lectures as a resource person at Faculty Development Programmes, Refresher Courses and on Interdisciplinary subjects at various institutes like IIIT Nagpur, HRDC, Dr. Harsingh Gour Vishwavidhyalaya, Sagar, DAV, Indore etc. He is also visiting faculty at IIM Rohtak for Labour Policy. He is faculty advisor to Legal Aid Centre since 2021. He is also subject expert at various Public Service Commissions. He is also Nodal Officer of Pro Bono Club, MNLU, Nagpur. He has also developed E- content for nine modules for B.A. and B.Sc. programme on various subjects and eight modules for UG MOOC titled "Understanding Political Theory" submitted to UGC, CEC, New Delhi, which is available on the SWAYAM platform (www.swayam.gov.in). He has contributed 16 research publications to various national and international journals, and three of which have been published in Scopus-indexed journals. He has more than 6 chapter contributions in reputed books of publishers like Springer, Routledge, Sage, etc.