Dr Raihana Shawl did her B.Sc. from Women's College, Srinagar, and LLB, LLM & PhD from Department of Law, University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Before joining the Central University of Kashmir, she was working as Lecturer in Kashmir Law College, Srinagar. She is also contributing as Assistant Editor to the Kashmir Journal of Legal Studies. She has two books to her credit and has published ten articles in reputed Journals of the country. She has participated and presented research papers in Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. Her areas of interest are Criminology, Criminal Law, Juvenile Justice, ADR and Legal History.