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Krishnendu Mukherjee is a barrister a specialising in immigration and business and human rights.

Year of Call: 1996 Krishnendu started practising in immigration and asylum law, appearing at all levels, including the House of Lords case of R (Razgar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 2AC368 one of the leading UK cases on expulsion and Article 8. He was also Trustee and then Chair of the Board of Trustees of Asylum Aid, a charity representing asylum seekers in the UK, from 1997-2006.

A desire to work on issues of globalisation, and in particular on international environment issues, led him to practice in India from 2007. Up until 2008, he worked with India's first environmental and natural resources law firm based in Delhi, working on projects concerning coastal regulations, land acquisition and water laws.

After qualifying as an Indian advocate in 2008, he has practised in the Bombay High Court on public interest litigation on the environment, police misconduct, discrimination against minorities and land acquisition.

He writes and speaks widely on issues of environment and corporate accountability. He was one of the recipients of the IUCN's Alexandre Kiss Award 2008 for his essay on Climate Change Adaptation and the Sundarbans. Krishnendu contributed to the critique of the India's National Green Tribunal 2009 (The Access Initiative), which set up India's environmental court, from which some of the recommendations were incorporated into the final Act itself.

BA (Hons) MA LLM