Mallika Kaur - Belmont, CA

Education

• Legal Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, California, 2010
    Juris Doctorate
    Law Journal: Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice

• Non Legal Education

  • Harvard University
    Master in Public Policy

Current Employment Position(s)

• Of Counsel

Past Positions

• CORA, Staff Attorney
• Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights, UC Berkeley, Director of Programs

Languages

• Punjabi

• Hindi

• Urdu

Pro Bono Activities

• Co-founder and Acting Executive Director of Sikh Family Center
• California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
• Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Gender Based Violence

Published Works

Articles

• “An Exploratory Framework for Community-Led Research to Address Intimate Partner Violence: A Case Study of the Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project,” (Co-authored) Journal of Family Violence (Sept. 2018)
  
• Co-Author, “Access to Justice for Women: India’s Response to Sexual Violence in Conflict & Social Upheaval,” International Human Rights Law Clinic, UC Berkeley (Oct. 2015)
  
• “Anti-Violence Advocates and Law Enforcement: Is All Coordination Capitulation?” Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, Vol. 8(1) (Summer 2015)
  
• Co-Author, “Family Law Remedies for DV Across California: A Survey”, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence(Sept. 2013)
  
• “Finding Instructions from Punjab’s “Missing Girls”—Towards a Global Feminist Perspective on “Choice” in Abortion.” California Law Review, 97.3 (June 2009)
  
• Co-Author, “Coercive Confusion: The Nexus of Domestic Violence & Custody in the Time of COVID-19, ” Domestic Violence Report (2020)