Biography
Mohammad Zayaan Asimi is a final year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. He hails from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. His area of interest lies at the intersection of law, technology, and society. He has worked with various NGOs, research centres, and civil society organisations on projects that aim to increase access to justice. Zayaan is the Co-Convenor of the GNLU Student Research Development Council (SRDC) and the Head of Research at the GNLU Centre for Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Justice. He volunteered at the Migration and Asylum Project (MAP), New Delhi post the political turmoil in Afghanistan and helped in drafting reopening applications for asylum seekers before the UNHCR. He has also worked on multiple Public Interest Litigation petitions on areas like mental health and digital freedom.
He aims to study the role of technology in increasing access to justice in marginalised societies. He believes that technology can play a transformative role in shaping legal institutions by making them more accessible to the less privileged. He wishes to pursue socio-legal research at the University of Oxford. He also takes a keen interest in sports and has represented Jammu and Kashmir at National Basketball Tournaments.