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Thesis
‘Right to Love : A Socio-Legal Study of the Regulation and Policing of Intimacy in India’
Supervisors
Professor Tarun Khaitan, Dr Roxana Willis
About
Ajita is a doctoral researcher at LSE Law School. Her research examines how law shapes questions of autonomy, dignity and selfhood, with a particular focus on the regulation and policing of non-normative relationships in India.
At LSE, her current research project, Right to Love: A Socio-Legal Study of the Regulation and Policing of Intimacy in India, examines how law regulates and recognises intimate relationships, particularly those that fall outside dominant norms of sexuality, gender, religion and caste.
Prior to joining LSE, Ajita taught as visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, and Jindal Global Law School, where she taught courses on gender and sexuality law.
She has also worked with international human rights organisations including the International Commission of Jurists, the Asian Development Bank, the Human Dignity Trust and the Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.
Ajita holds an MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London, for which she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship.
Research interests
Constitutional law; Queer and feminist legal theory; Criminology; Anti-discrimination law; Socio-legal studies;Legal anthropology