Dr. Aradhana Vadekkethil

Biography

Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil is a Lord Lady McNair Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Somerville College, University of Oxford, where she teaches criminal law, constitutional law, comparative human rights, and comparative equality law. She is also the Research Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub and serves as the EDI Associate for the Social Science Division. Aradhana completed her DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford, funded by the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, with her doctoral research examining rape adjudication in India under the supervision of Professor Laura Hoyano. Her research and teaching interests encompass criminal justice, feminist theory, family law, equality law, and human rights law. Prior to her doctoral studies, she engaged in the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) programme at Oxford as a Cornelia Sorabji Scholar and holds an LLB degree from National Law University in Delhi, India. She has received numerous accolades including the Modern Law Review Scholarship in 2021 and the Mike Redmayne Award for her research in Criminal Law and Law Evidence in 2022, as well as the 'Best Doctoral Student Prize' from the Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference in 2023. Aradhana serves as an associate editor for the Indian Law Review and is a member of the editorial board for the Square Circle Criminal Law Blog.

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