Dr Navajyoti Samanta

I teach and research in the area of company law and corporate governance. I am the module convenor for the UG company law module. I am an associate editor of Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society. I am a Fellow of the HEA.

I joined Leicester Law School in 2022. Prior to that I have worked as a lecturer in corporate and commercial law at the University of Sheffield and as an Assistant Professor at National Law University, Orissa.

My research lies in the fields of company law and corporate governance. I am interested in investigating how changes in company law may impact financial growth. Most of my research utilises quantitative methods. In the last few years I have also explored the areas of financial technology and behavioural finance.

• 'ESG and Workforce Engagement: Experiences in the UK' in Prof. Thilo Kuntz (ed.) The Research Handbook on Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (Edward Elgar) (Co-authored with Prof. Andrew Johnston) Forthcoming
• ‘Did the mandatory CSR spending regulations in India increase the overall CSR spending – A panel data analysis of the total CSR expenses by corporate India between 2002-2019.’ (2021) 33 (3) International Company and Commercial Law Review 194 (Co-authored with Dr. Shouvik Guha and Avik Mukherjee) 
• ‘Shareholder primacy corporate governance and financial market growth’ (2019) 19 (5) Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society 845-848 (editorial) (Co-authored with Prof. Andrew Johnston). 
• ‘Transplantation of Anglo-American corporate governance and its impact on financial market growth: a comparative analysis of nineteen developing countries 1995-2014’, (2019) 19 (5) Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society 884-922. 
• ‘Convergence to shareholder primacy corporate governance: evidence from a leximetric analysis of the evolution of corporate governance regulations in 21 countries, 1995-2014’, (2019) 19 (5) Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society 849-883. 
• ‘Does regulation matter? Changes in corporate governance in China and its impact on financial market growth: an empirical analysis (1995-2014)’ (2019) 19 (5) Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society 985-998 (Co-authored with Prof. Ding Chen and James Hughes). 
• ‘Gender, Intersectionality and Religious Manifestation Before the European Court of Human Rights’ (2019) Journal of Human Rights 76-91 (Co-authored with Dr. Pablo Castillo-Ortiz and Dr. Amal Ali). https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2019.1581054
• ‘Corporate governance, R&D volatility and firm performance - Evidence from Spain and Ireland’ (2017) 5 Cogent Economics and Finance (Co-authored with Prof. Geeta Duppati and Dr. Albert Sune). https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2017.1317117
• ‘An overview of corporate governance practices in Iran: A quantitative survey of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange’ (2017) 28(2) International Company and Commercial Law Review 33-48 (Co-authored with Ghorban Adabi, Dr. Seyed Hosseini Moghaddam and Ali Fouladi)

I welcome PhD proposals in any of the research areas relating to empirical corporate governance. 

Undergraduate

• Company law
• Contract law

At postgraduate level I have a particular interest in corporate governance related courses.

• PhD, University of Sheffield
• LLM, University of Kent, Canterbury
• BA LLB (Hons.), National University of Juridical Sciences