Dr Anand Kumar Tripathi is Associate Professor of Law, Chairperson, Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies, School of Criminal Law and Military Law, and Adjunct Pro Vice Chancellor, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He serves as the University Nodal Officer for the New Criminal Laws to sensitise and create awareness among law enforcement and police officers from various states. He has also been Programme Director for the capacity building programme of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Law Officers, organised by the School of Criminal Law and Military Law in collaboration with the Capacity Building Commission of India. He has held several key administrative positions at RRU including Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean Research and Publications, University Dean, Director Research and Development, Dean, Director and HoD (Law), and Founder Director of the RRU Shivamogga Campus, Karnataka. His research focuses on gender justice, cyber crime, public interest litigation, inheritance and succession rights, and criminal justice reforms. He has contributed to national projects on new criminal law reforms under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Bimal N. Patel and led consultancy research for Gujarat Police on conviction rate improvement. He has more than two and a half decades of professional and academic experience, numerous publications in reputed journals, and has co-authored the book 'A Guide to Police Investigation'. He is an alumnus of the University of Allahabad and a recipient of a UGC D.Phil. fellowship. He has been honoured with the Saraswati Putra Samman (Sarvochcha Rashtriya Shikshak Puraskar) for his poetry book 'Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita: Ek Kavya Khand', released by Hon’ble Home Minister Shri Amit Shah during the 50th Golden Jubilee All India Police Science Congress at RRU.