Professor Devyani Prabhat is a Professor of Law at University of Bristol Law School, UK, with legal practice experience in Constitutional law. She has a LLM and a PhD from New York University and is admitted as an Attorney at Law, New York. She researches and teaches Public Law (Migration, Citizenship, Constitutional Rights) from a socio-legal and comparative perspective. She is the LLM and MSC Programme Director and SWDTP Pathway lead for Socio-legal Studies (ESRC). She is an ESRC research grant holder on British Citizenship with follow up impact funding and related grants. Her main project was on the gaining, holding, and loss of citizenship. She supervises doctoral students in public law, human rights law, and migration law topics. Professor Prabhat has written and edited a number of books. Her monograph Unleashing the Force of Law: Legal Mobilization, National Security, Basic Freedoms ( Palgrave Macmillan) won the Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (Society of Legal Scholars). The book was shortlisted by both the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association for book prizes. Her book with Policy Press, Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship is available open access at http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=647390
Professor Prabhat works closely with practioners and civil society actors in a number of countries, for e.g., her book Citizenship in Times of Turmoil? (Elgar) is based on academic-practitioner collaborations. She serves on the Executive Committee of the UK Society of Legal Scholars (re-elected for second term in 2022), the Advisory Board of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and the editorial board of journals (e.g., Social and Legal Studies, Human Rights Law Quarterly). She served on ESRC and AHRC peer review colleges and as Associate Director of Border Criminologies (Oxford University). Her research is widely profiled in media and she is a popular invited speaker.