Dr. Samreen Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Aligarh Muslim University, Malappuram Campus. Her research interests lie at the intersection of corporate law and technology law. She has published in journals indexed in SCOPUS, Web of Science, and the UGC CARE List and has contributed chapters to books published by Thomson Reuters and National Book Trust. 

In 2022, she co-authored a book titled ‘Syed Mahmood: Colonial India’s Dissenting Judge,’ published by Bloomsbury. The book was formally released on 28 August 2022 at the India International Centre in New Delhi by three judges of the Supreme Court of India—Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia. Widely reviewed in the Economic & Political Weekly of India, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The New Indian Express, The Book Review, and OPEN Magazine, the book was shortlisted for the Best Book of the Year 2023 in the English Non-Fiction Category by the Valley of Words Book Awards 2023.

She has co-edited the Special Centenary Issue of the Aligarh Institute Gazette (July 2021)—a periodical started by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1866.

Samreen is a recipient of the Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and co-awardee of a project-based research grant by the ICSSR to write a monograph. 

She is a quadruple gold medalist, having received gold medals for standing first in the order of merit in both the B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M. programme at Aligarh Muslim University. Her paper on the privacy of corporations was selected for presentation at the 6th Business and Financial Law Workshop organized by the American Society of Comparative Law’s The Younger Comparativists Committee at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, from 09-10 May 2025. In 2024, her paper presentation on engendering sustainability and equity was adjudged as Best Presentation at the ‘International Conference on Climate Change: India’s Vision for COP 33’ organized by the International University of Legal Education and Research, Goa.

She has served in various student leadership positions at the Aligarh Muslim University, inter alia, Senior Proctorial Monitor, Vice President of the Law Society and Senior Hall Monitor of the Begum Sultan Jahan Hall.

Apart from academic engagements, she volunteers with the Aligarh Self Reliance Alliance for Women, an organization committed to the upliftment of destitute women through skill development.

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