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Swethaa Ballakrishnen

Graduation Year
2015
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Dissertation Title
Women in Black: The Unlikely Case of Gender-Neutral Professional Success in Indian Law Firms
Placement
Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law

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Ballakrishnen, Swethaa. "‘I love my American job’: professional prestige in the Indian outsourcing industry and global consequences of an expanding legal profession." International Journal of the Legal Profession 19, no. 2-3 (2012): 379-404.

Ballakrishnen, Swethaa. "Why is Gender a Form of Diversity?": Rising Advantages for Women in Global Indian Law Firms." Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 20 (2013): 1261-1445.

Ballakrishnen, Swethaa. "Homeward Bound: What does a Global Legal Education offer the Indian Returnees." Fordham L. Rev. 80 (2011): 2441.

Ballakrishnen, Swethaa. "Where did we come from? Where do we go? An enquiry into the students and systems of legal education in India." Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 7, no. 2 (2009): 133-154.

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