An accomplished law teacher with 31 years of teaching experience and a demonstrated ability to teach, motivate and guide students as competent and industry-socially relevant legal professionals.

Recipient of the first Fulbright-Vanderbilt Clinical Legal Education Scholarship in the year 2004. Over the course of his career, he has served as Principal from 2015 to 2020, Former Dean Faculty of Law, Goa University, and Chairman Board of Studies in law, Goa University. He served as a Professor of Law at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, for a year. He is instrumental in establishing and functionalizing Community Legal Aid Clinics set up by a law college in the community. For this initiation, V.M. Salgaocar College of Law received “The Institutional Excellence Award 2011” from SILF (Society of Indian Law Firms) and MILAT (Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training).

Regularly contributes to the Annual Survey of Indian Law published by the Indian Law Institute. Member to develop e-content on Access to Justice for University Grants Commission’s Project on E-Pathshala for Post Graduate Courses in Law. Contributed to Course Content for School of Law, Indira Gandhi National Open University. Completed three major research projects funded by United Nations Development Fund, United Nations Development Fund for Women and Goa Institute of Public Administration and Research Development. Founding Director of Project POSH.

Member of Committee constituted by Chief Justice of India & Patron-in-Chief, NALSA  for preparing SOP/Guidelines for the Legal Services Institutions engaging Legal Aid/Services Clinics set up in the Law Schools, Colleges, and Universities in India. Former member of Goa State Child Rights Commission.