Mr. Renjith Thomas is an Assistant Professor at National Law University, Jodhpur, and has dedicated eight years to academic pursuits at the University. He currently offers substantive and procedural criminal law in the under graduate BA/BBA LLB(Hons) programme and alsocourses on Comparative Criminal Law, Criminology, and the Law Relating to Forensic Science for the Criminal Law (Hons.) programme.

In 2018, he was selected as a visiting scholar to the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

He currently is the Executive Director of the Centre for Criminal Law and Forensic Justice Studies, NLUJ, and the Centre for Litigation Studies, NLUJ.

He serves as the Chief Editor of the NLUJ Law Review. He is also the Chairman of the SC/ST Cell of NLUJ and a faculty member of the Disciplinary Council.

Books

• Revising Author of Dr. K.N. Chandrasekharan Pillai’s General Principles of Criminal Law (2^nd ed.) published by the Eastern Book Company (2024).
• Revising Author of R.V. Kelkar’s Criminal Procedure (7^th ed.) published by the Eastern Book Company (forthcoming).
• Revising Author of R.V. Kelkar’s Lectures on Criminal Procedure (6^th ed.) published by the Eastern Book Company (forthcoming).

Articles

• Jurisprudence of Over Criminalization - A Criminological Perspective of Over Criminalization under Section 34 of Indian Penal Code, Symbiosis Contemporary Law Journal Vol. II No.1, Published by Lexis Nexis Butterworth. (ISBN No. 978-93-5143-018-6). 
• “Law And Justice: The Guantánamo Challenge”, Human Rights Law Journal, Vol. I, Issue I, Published by National Law University Odisha, Cuttack
• “Transgression of Law and Justice: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone”, KIIT Student Law Review Vol. III, (ISSN No. 2348-4381)
• “Demystifying ‘Property’ In Intellectual Property: A Critical Analysis in the Context of Access to Knowledge”, National Law University Odisha Law Journal Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2018) (ISSN: 2348-8913)
• “Tejram Patil: Juxtaposing Section 32(1) and Section 6 whether justified? A Critical Analysis of the Supreme Court Decision in Tejram Patil v. State of Maharashtra, 2015 (2) SCJ 710”, National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi (NUALS) Law Journal, Vol. 10
• “Can Adam Plead Abortion As A Ground For Divorce Against Eve?:A Jurisprudential Analysis”,Amity Law Review 2016, Vol. 12 (ISSN: 2249-2232)
• Developed Course Content for the Subject Law, Module Titled Jurisprudence of Sentencing Function for the MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), in collaboration with UGC for development of e-content in Criminology for Postgraduate Level.
• Developed course content for the Subject Criminology, Module Titled Judicial Approach in relation to Dowry Prohibition Laws for the MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), in collaboration with UGC for development of e-content in Criminology for Postgraduate Level.
• Developed course content for the Subject Criminology, Module   Titled Evidentiary and Procedural Challenges in Relation to Matrimonial Offences for the MHRD, under its National   Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), in collaboration with UGC for development of e-content in Criminology For Postgraduate Level.

Email Id : renjith@nlujodhpur.ac.in

His areas of expertise inter alia include the philosophy of criminal law, Sentencing and the administration of the criminal justice system.