Dr Mara Malagodi is a Reader in Law at Warwick Law School. She joined Warwick in 2022 from Hong Kong.
Mara is a comparative constitutional lawyer and socio-legal scholar with a linguistically-informed specialism in South Asian law and politics, human rights law, gender and law, legal history, and law and film. She holds her Doctorate, MA in South Asia Area Studies, and BA (Hons) in Nepali & Politics from the University of London (SOAS) and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a scholar of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (Quatercentenary Scholarship) and a non-practising barrister in England and Wales.
Mara is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker; she trained at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in Cuba in 2014 and her work has been screened at 2015 Raindance Film Festival (award for best short doc), 2015 Sheffield Doc Fest (nominated for best student doc), and 2015 Shuffle Film Festival (nominated for best doc).
Mara is the author of the monographs Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion in Nepal (2013) with Oxford University Press and The Constitution of Nepal – A Contextual Analysis (forthcoming 2024) with Hart Publishing. She is the co-editing for Hart Publishing a four-volume series on Asian Comparative Constitutional Law with Ngog Son Bui and a volume on Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia with Wen-Chen Chang, Kelley Loper and Ruth Rubio-Marín. Mara's work has appeared in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Journal of Law and Society, the Federal Law Review, Law and History Review, and numerous other journals and edited collections.
Dr Malagodi is on the expert roster of iProbono and ROLE UK, has worked as an external consultant for various United Nations agencies, and has been teaching at the Diplomatic Academy of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
