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Sandhya Drew

Senior Lecturer

The City Law School Professional law programmes

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  • +44 (0)20 7040 5253
  • sandhya.drew@city.ac.uk

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Sandhya Drew T201, Law School Building [T]
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Sandhya Drew graduated in English & Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. After teaching in the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bologna for two years, she was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1993 (NI 2003) after study at what is now the City Law School.

Sandhya practised full-time for the next twenty years from Tooks Chambers, with a successful practice in national and international employment and public law. She acted for her clients at all levels up to the then House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights, including in a case which led to the enactment of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Sandhya has worked cross-border and in other jurisdictions including India. Latterly, she was engaged as a Consultant on Forced Labour by the International Labour Organisation. She joined City Law School in January 2019.

Sandhya holds a current Practising Certificate, accepts work compatible with her academic commitments and is also a CEDR Qualified Mediator with specialist skill in workplace and sports disputes.

Sandhya is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a Visiting Professor of Employment Law on the University of Paris Nanterre’s Joint Masters Degree in French Law and Common Law.

At City, Sandhya convenes Employment Law on the LLB. On the Bar Vocational Studies course, she leads the Judicial Review Elective and, with Clare Brown, jointly leads Advocacy Submissions. She has taught across City's law courses, including Civil Litigation, Drafting, Civil Advocacy, Opinion Writing and Employment Law to Bar students, and Employment Law and International Human Rights Law to LLB students. She has supervised dissertations on LLMs across the academic and professional programmes, with specialisms in judicial review and human rights. In 2021 she ran a successful online summer school on Human Rights and Business with Jindal Global Law School. In 2022, she received Honourable Mention in the annual City student union awards for her work in research supervision of postgraduate students..

She is co-author of Pitt's Employment Law (2022, forthcoming)
She is currently engaged on a joint project with Professor Sarah Bros of the University of Paris Dauphine on supply chains and fundamental rights.

Sandhya is joint Blog Editor for the highly respected Business and Human Rights Journal (CUP)

Employment

  • Assistant Dean (International Students and Exchanges), City Law School, Sep 2020 – Oct 2021
  • Member, Business School Research Ethics Committee, Business School, Feb 2019 – Feb 2021
  • Visiting Professor, University of Paris Nanterre, Sep 2017 – present

Languages

French (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review), German (can understand spoken), Hindi (can speak and understand spoken), Italian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Spanish; Castilian (can read, speak and understand spoken).

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Asia - South Central
  • Europe

Publications

Publications by category

Book

  • Drew, S. (2009). Human Trafficking: Human Rights (Legal Action Group, 2009) ISBN 978-1-903307-65-6. London: Legal Action Group. ISBN 978-1-903307-65-6.

Journal articles (3)

  • Drew, S. (2022). Human Rights Unbound: A Theory of Extraterritoriality. Industrial Law Journal, 51(2), pp. 505–509. doi:10.1093/indlaw/dwac012.

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  • Truxal, S. and Drew, S. (2022). Consumers, Air Carriers and Workers in the European Union: Two Sides of the Triangle. Air and Space Law, 47(1), pp. 111–134.
  • Drew, S. (2002). Human Trafficking: A Modern Form of Slavery? European Human Rights Law Review, (4).

Working paper

  • Drew, S. (2021). Freedom and the Wage: Downward Spirals. Is the NMW adequate to prevent unfree labour? London. UK: The City Law School.

Professional activities

Events/conferences (11)

  1. Apres le Brexit. (Public lecture) University of Paris Nanterre (2022). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Apres le Brexit: le droit du travail au Royaume (des)uni
    Author: Drew S
  2. Virtual Workshop on the role of scholars in promoting business and human rights law and policy reforms in Asia. (Workshop) UNDP Bangkok online (2021). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Using a gender lens to understand differentiated impacts on different rights holders; Relation of BHR standards and the SDGs
    Author: Harpreet Kaur
    Co-authors: Sudarsana Kundu
  3. Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on Modern Slavery and The Employment Relationship, online to Sydney. Online to Sydney (2021). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Freedom and the Wage: Spirals into Modern Slavery
    Author: Sandhya Drew
    Co-authors: None
  4. Jindal Global University Conference on the Future of Legal Education. (Seminar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeoIdmKBxMA&t=12s (2020). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Women and the Law Panel
  5. Lectures in honour of Mahatma Gandhi. (Public lecture) Webinar to JNU, Delhi (2020). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Mind, Word and deed: To what extent was Mahatma Gandhi influenced by his legal education ?
    Author: Sandhya Drew
  6. Business and Human Rights Oxfam India Summer Course. (Conference) Webinar (2020). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Labour Rights Challenges in Supply Chains: The case of Informal Workers
    Author: Sandhya Drew
    Co-authors: Gopinath Parakuni
  7. Respect des Droits Humaines: Loi Votif, de Vigilance ou Voisinage? (Seminar) University of Paris Nanterre (2019). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Respect des Droits Humaines: Loi Votif, de Vigilance ou Voisinage?
    Author: Drew, S
  8. Seminar at Jindal Human Rights Centre. (Seminar) Delhi (2019). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Regional Human Rights Systems: The European Experience 70 years on
    Author: Sandhya Drew
  9. Employment and Flexibility Conference. (Conference) University of Kingston (2018). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Workers in the World Economy
  10. Faculty Paper. (Workshop) University of Paris Nanterre (2017).
    Paper: On the Bridge: Working for an International Organisation
    Author: Sandhya Drew
  11. Faculty Research Seminar. (Workshop) University of Surrey (2017).
    Paper: On the Bridge: Working for an international organisation

Online article

  1. Age Discrimination in Pay. (2017). theconversation.com

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