Prof. Jaswal is the first woman vice-chancellor of Himachal Pradesh National Law University (HPNLU). With over 34 years of experience,
she retired as professor from the department of laws, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, in 2019. With over three decades of teaching and research experience, Professor Nishtha Jaswal specialises in Constitutional law, Administrative law, Human Rights and Environmental law. She has over fifty research papers and at least four books to her credit. She was a gold medalist during her college years. She went on to receive a Visiting Professorship award from the British Academy in 1992. Dr. Jaswal has been member of the Chandigarh State Legal Services Authority, the Punjab Legal Services Authority, the Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee of the Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the Academic Planning Board of the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law. She has also been a member of the board of studies for various universities, including Kurukshetra University, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Himachal Pradesh University and the University Institute of Legal Studies, PU.
Before taking charge as HPNLU’s new V-C, she was the chairperson of the law department at PU, acting as the university’s dean of students welfare and officiating as the dean of university instructions.