Kripabandhu Ghosh Editor

Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan is currently serving as a Professor at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. He previously served as Professor and Director at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. He is involved in research intertwining the Criminal Justice Administration, Human Rights and Human Trafficking. He has authored several books on these subjects, including The Transnational Sex Trafficking: An Integrated Reparation Model (Thomson Reuters, 2019) which emphasizes on a human rights dimension of cross border sex- trafficking between India and Bangladesh. He is a recipient of prestigious fellowships including the British Chevening Scholarship, Hong Kong UGC Scholarship, Michigan Grotius Research Fellowship, and the U.S. Department of State’s IVLP Fellowship.

Lovely Dasgupta is currently serving as a Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. She has been teaching and researching Sports Law, Contract, and Legal Education. Her key publications include: Esports and the World Anti-Doping Code (Routledge, UK); Online Gaming in India Technology, Policy, and Challenges, Edited By Lovely Dasgupta, Shameek Sen, (Chapman & Hall) and Sport in Contemporary India Society, Culture and Governance, Edited by Surajit C Mukhopadhyay, Lovely Dasgupta, (Routledge,UK).

Saptarshi Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His current research interests are in Legal data analytics, AI and Sustainability, and Algorithmic bias and fairness. His research is inter-disciplinary and uses techniques from Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Complex Network Theory. He received his PhD in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur in 2013. He was a Humboldt Post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany. He heads a Max Planck Partner Group at IIT Kharagpur, that focuses on algorithmic bias and fairness. He is presently an Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Artificial Intelligence and Law”, the premier journal in the domain of AI and Law.

Kripabandhu Ghosh is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata. He completed his PhD (Computer Science) at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests include information retrieval, data mining, and AI in the legal domain; information extraction from social media text in disaster situations; fairness in text summarization; and data mining on noisy text.