Amit Kumar is based in India and teaches Law at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai where he has also served as the Assistant Registrar Academic and Deputy Director of Internal Quality Assessment Cell. Kumar is the founding head of the Centre for Applied Research in Public Health Law, Rights and Policy. He also heads the literary and debating society at MNLU-Mumbai and is an editorial Board Member of the MNLU-Mumbai Law Review.
Amit Kumar has been a Max Planck Fellow and has collaborated with the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich during his research on international pandemic law. His teaching and research inter-alia explore public health law, human rights and justice, comparative and international law as well as public policy, law and governance.
Among his publications are two books, Public Health Law and Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development: Law, Policy, Praxis. In addition his articles have appeared in leading newspapers such as the Indian Express and also in various academic and policy forums, including the Indian Law Institute Law Review, the Law School Policy Review, The Wire and The Leaflet.
Prior to joining academia, Amit Kumar held positions with the Parliament of India and various multinational corporations including Amazon, HP Inc., and Orange in leadership and policy-oriented roles. He has presented and delivered lectures at leading national and international institutions and conferences. Beyond his academic work, he also writes poetry and his anthologies have been well received. Amit Kumar has near-native fluency in French and a working understanding of German and Spanish.
As a Wirtschaftskammer Steiermark Senior Fellow at the Department of Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law, he looks forward to engaging in research on Procedural Constitutionalism and Corporate Accountability, focusing on a comparative study of India's Public Interest Litigation (PIL) framework and Austrian and European Union approaches to collective redress, representative actions and corporate liability.