#DesignTheLawNepal is a collaborative project between Mara Malagodi at the School of Law at the University of Warwick, Emily Allbon and Sabrina Germain at the City Law School at City St George’s, University of London.
It is led by Mara Malagodi at Warwick, iProbono, LAPSOJ (see partners page for more detail), and illustrated in collaboration with Nepali artist Kripa Joshi.
We are working with five Toolkit Ambassadors from the legal and medical professions and civil society to enhance the reach of the Toolkit across the country and various stakeholders.
Academic Team
Mara – the Nepal/constitutional law specialist
Reader (Associate Professor) School of Law, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Mara Malagodi is a comparative constitutional lawyer and socio-legal scholar with a linguistically-informed specialism in South Asian law and politics (in particular Nepal, India, and Pakistan), human rights law, gender and law, legal history, and law and film. She is a non-practising barrister in England and Wales (call: 2016), a scholar of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Mara is the author of the monographs Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion in Nepal (2013) with Oxford University Press and The Constitution of Nepal – A Contextual Analysis (2026) with Hart Publishing. She is co-editing a four-volume series on Asian Comparative Constitutional Law (2023-26) and co-edited a volume on Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia (2024) for Hart Publishing. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Journal of Law and Society, the Federal Law Review, the Law and History Review, the Modern Law Review, the European Constitutional Law Review, the Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, and numerous other journals and edited collections.
Mara is the co-Editor in Chief of Constitutional Studies, since its recent reconfiguration as the official publication of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) jointly with the Comparative Constitutions Project. She also serves as an Executive Committee Member of the UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA), the UK branch of IACL.
Mara is part of the European Women’s Law and Gender action (EUWONDER) project on gender equality within the European legal order at the University of Pisa. She is on the expert roster of iProbono and ROLE UK, has worked as an external consultant for various United Nations agencies, and has been teaching at the Diplomatic Academy of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
Emily – the legal design specialist
Professor of Legal Education at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London
Emily’s working life has always been dedicated to increasing access to information; initially following an information science route and becoming a law librarian, but she switched to legal academia in 2014.
Emily’s practical work and research since the early 2000’s has always been focused on increasing access to the law, and this was first realised via her creation of the UK’s longest-running (and award-winning) student website, Lawbore. Lawbore began in 2002 and is still going strong today, with many different zones to the site: Future Lawyer, Learnmore, Mooting HQ and City Hub.
In the last decade, she developed her practice further, becoming one of the first few academics to be working in the field of legal design worldwide. TL;DR – the less textual legal gallery was launched in 2019, which offers a showcase to projects utilising design. She published Design in Legal Education with Prof Amanda Perry-Kessaris in 2022. She now works with organisations (charities, legal advice centres, law firms) on re-envisioning their own materials, running training/workshops and more. Examples of such organisations include Liberty, Leducate and Dad’s House. She continues to innovate, launching Kyla’s Essay Journey in June 2025 - a design-driven interactive guide to essay writing in law.
Sabrina – the reproductive rights/medical law specialist
Reader in Healthcare Law and Policy at The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Dr Sabrina Germain is a health law scholar with a particular focus on inequalities in accessing healthcare. Her research calls attention to the importance of justice in healthcare law and policy. She looks at these themes at a systemic (theories of justice in law and policy focusing on questions of distributive justice), organisational (the role of medical professionals in resource allocation and policy making) and micro level (barriers and inequalities faced by marginalised groups in accessing formal healthcare). In recent years, she has focused and been recognised for her expertise on inequalities in healthcare relating to race and gender diversity with her work being published in Medical Law Review, Medical Law International, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia.
She is also the co-lead of the Health and Equity Laba member for the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research (CHIR) at City St George’s, and a member of the Medical Law Review editorial advisory board.