Prof Poonam Saxena, former Vice-Chancellor (VC) of National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ), has joined National Law School of India University (NLSIU) as a Visiting Chair Professor (Ford Foundation Chair in Public Interest Law).

Prof Saxena led NLUJ for ten years. Before that, she served as Professor-in-Charge of Law Centre II at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

She carries 41 years of experience in teaching and academic administration and specialises in Family Law, Property Law and Women and Law. She was a Senior Fullbright Scholar in 1998, during which she lectured at the University of Baltimore School of Law, Maryland and at Northeastern University, Boston. In 2000, as a Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow, she delivered lectures on gender issues at eleven universities across Canada.

As an author, she has written eight law books, all published by LexisNexis Butterworths.