Adaysa Hota

Adaysa Hota

Visiting Faculty

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About

Adaysa is a practising lawyer before the District Court, Khordha, and the High Court of Odisha, and teaches Administrative Law and Equality and Inclusiveness at the National Law University Odisha (NLUO). She completed her B.A. LL.B. from the National Law University Odisha (NLUO) and her LL.M. in Corporate Law from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata. She has also completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru.

Her research interests include Competition Law, Securities Law, Corporate Law, the economics of gender, legal aid, and access to justice. Her publications and presentations have explored privacy and the legal rights of persons with mental illness, access to justice, the Right to Information and Right to Privacy, and asset distribution under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.

Her engagement with law is guided by an interest in understanding it beyond its formal rules and doctrines and in asking how it operates within the social and economic realities of people’s lives. Her experience in legal practice has given her an understanding of these realities, while her interests in legal aid, access to justice, and the economics of gender have led her to explore the wider questions that law engages with. In the classroom, she hopes to bring these perspectives together by encouraging students to consider not only what the law says, but also how it affects people and how social realities shape its application.

Outside law and academia, Adaysa is a trained Odissi dancer and an avid reader, with a particular love for books and literature.

  • B.A. LL.B. – National Law University Odisha (NLUO).
  • LL.M. in Corporate Law – West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata.
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics – National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru.
  • “Privacy and Legal Rights of People with Mental Illness” – International Journal of Law, Management and Humanities (ISSN: 2581-5369), 2020.
  • “Contemporary Issues of Access to Justice” – presented as part of India Justice Report; Where Odisha Stands: A Discussion on the Capacity of the Justice System to Deliver, Tata Trusts in collaboration with National Law University Odisha, 2020.
  • “Balancing the Paradoxes Between Two Fundamental Rights: Right to Information vis-à-vis Right to Privacy” – book chapter in The Journey of Seven Decades: Constitutional Discourse at Crossroads, HNLU Press, Raipur, India (ISBN: 978-81-957449-0-9).
  • “Deviation in Asset Distribution: Conundrum of Waterfall Mechanism under IBC” – Centre for Business and Commercial Laws (CBCL), National Law Institute University, Bhopal.

LL.M. Dissertation: “Anticompetitive Practices in the Fashion Industry: Analysing Vertical Restraints, Brand Power and Buyer Power under Indian Competition Law.” The dissertation examines how the structure of the fashion industry and the relationships between brands, businesses, and buyers raise questions under Indian competition law, particularly in relation to vertical restraints and the exercise of market power.

Adaysa is a trained Odissi dancer and an avid reader, with a particular interest in books and literature.