Prof.Dr. Anak Agung Istri Ari Atu Dewi, SH., MH. was born in Puri Pegambangan Batubulan Village, Sukawati District, Gianyar Regency, on January 10, 1976. Daugther from Drs. Anak Agung Gde Astawa (father) and CokordaIstri Putra Murtini (Mother). she has been completed his undergraduate education and obtained a Bachelor of Law (SH) in 2000 at the Faculty of Law Udayana University, then she has been completed his Masters education in the Program Study Master of Law at Udayana University (2009) and she got a title as a Doctor of Law at Faculty of Law Udayana University (2017).

She began as a Lecture at the Faculty of Law started since 2001 and placed in the Law and Society departement, on year 2009-2016 she placed as secretary of laboratorium of law, and in 2019 she began a leader of legal-skill in law faculty and serving as Vice Dean II in the Faculty of Law Udayana University (2020-2024).

Recognition outside the Faculty of Law Udayana University she became the Legal Advisory Team of the City of Denpasar (2019-present), active as the Nayaka Assembly of the Traditional Villages of the Bali province.

As a great lecture, she always doing a lot of research and focused on topics and issues of the relationship between state law and society with local wisdom.