Qualifications:
LL.M from Azim Premji University, Bengaluru (2016-17)
BA.LL.B (Hons) degree from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata ( 2008-
2013)

Email: alphojojan@gmail.com

Profile: Alphonso has a deep research and teaching interest in biodiversity law and policy. Currently, as a research affiliate of Dakshin, she is exploring the potential of Biological Diversity Act and the Peoples Biodiversity Register to facilitate fishing communities engagement with decentralised marine biodiversity governance. She has published various works in Economic and Political Weekly, Down to Earth, Livelaw and SpicyIP. She previously worked with the Indian National Biodiversity Authority, Natural Justice and Dakshin Foundation. She was a teaching faculty at the Tamil Nadu National Law University.

Publications:

• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘Linking Biodiversity to Concept of Commons’, Dakshin Foundation, 2020
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘Legal Concepts and Principles Governing Coastal Commons’, Dakshin Foundation, 2020
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘Celebrating Knowledge’, Down to Earth, 16 -20 August 2020
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘Supreme Court and Air Pollution: An Overview of Vehicular Pollution Case (1985-2019)’, Livelaw.in, 25th June 2019
• Alphonsa Jojan and Vineetha Venugopal, ‘Biological Diversity Act: Draft ABS Guidelines Help Businesses By Diluting Sharing of Benefits with Local Communities’, Livelaw.in, 14th June 2019
• Alphonsa Jojan,’Developing a bio-cultural jurisprudence for securing rights of Indigenous People and Local Communities- Divya Pharmacy v. UoI’, SpicyIp, 06 March 2019
• Preeta Dhar and Alphonsa Jojan, ‘India’s only coastal protection system is being overhauled for economic interests’, Down to Earth, 14th June 2018
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘A disastrous draft for coastal regulation’, Livelaw.in, 10th June 2018
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘Adopting a Gender and Caste Sensitive Policies towards CCAs’, People in Conservation, Vol 8, Issue 1 Jan- June 2018
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘The curious case of the Indian Biological Diversity Act’, the Wire, 18th November 2017
• Alphonsa Jojan, ‘A rare and pristine estuary comes under threat in Karnataka’, the Wire, 04th May 2017
• Alphonsa Jojan and Bhuvana Balaji, ‘A narration of bio-cultural practices of communities of Sariska Tiger Reserve’, Natural Justice
• Alphonsa et al, ‘Of platitudes and million-dollar promises – A critique of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation And Resettlement Bill 2011’, Journal for Indian Law and
  Society, Volume 3.