The constitution in changing India

Indira Jaising was an Additional Solicitor General of India from 2009 to 2014. Currently, she practices in the Supreme Court of India as a Senior Advocate. Educated at the University of Bangalore and the University of Mumbai, Ms Jaising has been a pioneering legal activist and lawyer in India. She was the first woman to be designated a Senior Advocate in the Bombay High Court, and the first woman to be appointed Attorney General of India, a position she held from 2009-2014.

Ms Jaising is a founder member of Lawyers Collective, an organization that works on the unmet needs of marginalised communities. She, along with Anand Grover, is the co-founder of www.theleaflet.in an independent web portal for legal news an opinions. Ms Jaising is well known as for having argued many landmark cases against various aspects of discrimination against women, appearing for Mary Roy, Rupal Singh Deol, and Geeta Hariharan. She has also led on many cases on domestic violence against women, and women's economic rights.

As a lawyer with further expertise in environmental issues, she advocated for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, and, more recently for Priya Pillai of Greenpeace India. She was an expert member of the Committee for the Elimination of discrimination against Women of the UN from 2009 to 2012. Ms Jaising has been a Fellow at the London-based Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Law School. She was awarded the Padma Shree, one of India's highest civilian honours, in 2005.