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Arpeeta is an academic and clinical legal educationist with over a decade of experience. She is interested in qualitative studies of the human experience and understanding of law as a lived reality. Her PhD project uses the theoretical framework of legal consciousness and postcolonial studies to investigate why people in Bangladesh tend to uphold religious normativities while defying state laws, which often has serious consequence for fundamental freedoms of citizens. Arpeeta has nearly 10 years’ experience of organizing street law legal awareness campaigns and has introduced human rights fact-finding simulation workshops in Bangladesh to promote clinical legal education. She has closely worked with various at risk and marginalised communities in Bangladesh including the LGBTQI and Dalits. Arpeeta has an LLM from Harvard Law School and has published in a number of Bangladeshi and international peer-reviewed journals. She is currently on study leave from the Department of Law, 91¾«Æ· where she is an Assistant Professor.