Research Assistant
Centre for Business Research (CBR)
BA LLB (Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIP University), LLM (University of Cambridge)
My research sits at the intersections of law, sociology and philosophy, and explores the issues of AI governance, social identity and epistemic injustice.
Professional experience
Dr Bhumika Billa is an award-winning academic, spoken word poet, kathak dancer, creative facilitator, and emerging filmmaker. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Simon Deakin at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a Cambridge Trust scholar (2021-2025) where she developed a new theory of legal evolution from the south. Before the PhD, she obtained a first-class master’s in law at Cambridge (2019-2020), researched for the Indian government to help develop negotiation strategies at the WTO (2018-2019), and completed a combined degree in law and arts in Delhi at the top of her batch (2013-2018).
Outside research, her creative works centring issues of social justice on page, stage, and film have been awarded by BBC Words First, Button Poetry and Out-Spoken Press, and have been commissioned by the likes of Historic Royal Palaces, Amnesty International and Harvard University. Her ideas have travelled in the forms of books, articles, poems, podcasts, stories, soundtracks and films to over a dozen countries in 4 continents, from galleries, exhibitions and festivals to classrooms, courtrooms and Parliaments.
Previous appointments
Outside of Cambridge, she was appointed as a research fellow with the Singapore Management University (2020-2021) to explore the practical implications of technology integration in mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes.
Publications
- Billa, B. (2020) “Top-down versus bottom-up convergence in harmonisation: the case of international intellectual property law.” Cambridge International Law Journal blog, 2 December 2020
- Billa, B. (2019) Anti-dumping in the globalized world: law and practice of anti-dumping duty circumvention. Gurugram, India: Wolters Kluwer.
- Billa, B. (2019) “Spotlight on WTO and it’s appellate body crises.” E-International Relations, 7 September 2019
- Billa, B. (2018) “Strategising protectionism: analysis of India’s regulation of anti-dumping duty circumvention.” Trade Law and Development, 10(2): 417-447
- Billa, B. (2017) “Ease of doing business in India through corporate insolvency reforms.” Journal of Exclusive Management Science, 6(6): 1-10