Online Gaming in India

Lovely Dasgupta has been in the teaching profession for the last eighteen years. She is an alumnus of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, where she has completed her L.L.M., M.Phil., and Ph.D. She primarily teaches Contract and Commercial law at the Undergraduate level and Competition Law at the Postgraduate level. She is one of the founding Indian academics to introduce a taught course on Sports Law. In the past sixteen years, she has been writing about and researching issues within the field of sports law. In addition, she has also published in competition law. To date, she has published four books on Sports Law and Competition Law. She is heading the Centre for Sports Law and Policy at NUJS. She is the only Indian to be a member of the International Network of Doping Research, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Shameek Sen is Associate Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. He specializes in public law disciplines such as constitutional law and media law. He has several publications as books, book chapters, and articles in peer- reviewed journals and newspaper op- ed articles. His book titled Sports Law in India: Policy, Regulation and Commercialisation, co- edited with Dr. Lovely Dasgupta, is considered to be one of the leading Indian books on the subject. He has also presented several papers at international conferences and symposia, including the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conferences and the Biennial Conferences organized by the Asian Constitutional Law Forum. He currently holds the position of Director at the Centre for Technology, Entertainment and Sports Laws, a Research Centre that was set up at WBNUJS with financial support from M/ S Gameskraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s largest skill- based online gaming platforms. The Center is a pioneer academic contributor in India to the scholarship in these niche areas of study, organizing lectures, symposia, workshops, and training programs dealing with the latest domain knowledge on the nuances of these subject matters.