NLSIU

Sindhu is a policy researcher committed to advancing workers’ rights through grassroots and evidence-based research. She holds an M.A. in Public Policy and Governance from Azim Premji University (APU). Her work focusses on women workers in the informal sector, with a focus on livelihoods and labour rights in digitalising economies.

At IT for Change, she has actively contributed to building worker-centric frameworks for digital labour platforms.

Working at the intersection of science, society, and governance studies, Rishabh’s interests lie in exploring how scientific knowledge is produced, legitimised, and contested in democratic settings. His doctoral work critically examined the co-production of scientific authority and public reason in India, focussing on the shaping of discourse around vaccines and vaccination by interactions between the state, scientific institutions, and the public.

He is passionate about how research can inform public reasoning and institutional practice.

Mihika’s research interests include, Human Rights Law and Policy, Discrimination Law, Queer and Feminist Legal Theory, Law and Society, Constitutional law, Criminal Law. She is a DPhil candidate in law at the University of Oxford, where she is undertaking research on legal recognition of personal identities, including race, sex/gender and caste. Mihika obtained the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) with Distinction on a Rhodes Scholarship. She is also a qualified lawyer and university medallist from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), India, where she completed her B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) in 2019.

She has been a tutor and lecturer in English Criminal Law and Feminist Perspectives in Law at the University of Oxford, University College London, and Catholic University of Lille, Paris.

Faiza’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law and theory, administrative and regulatory laws, and media and technology law and policy. Her doctoral dissertation at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, examines the impact of security claims on the Indian constitutional framework, with a specific focus on emergency powers, fundamental rights and federalism. Prior to joining NLSIU, Faiza served as a teaching fellow in the free speech and media law course at Melbourne Law School. In India, she has worked for over six years across research, public policy and practice.

Before venturing into research and academia, Faiza worked as an associate in the capital markets practice at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, Mumbai.

John’s general research and teaching interests cover the areas of legal and political theory, constitutional law, criminal law and administrative law. He has published on a range of issues in these areas. His PhD research at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, focusses on the special rights of linguistic and religious minorities in the Indian Constitution, and analyses the manner in which the Constitution engages with the many conflicting interests and values underlying the legal recognition of these identities. Prior to joining NLSIU, John taught legal theory in the Juris Doctor programme at Melbourne Law School for three years.

While doing his BCL from the University of Oxford, John was awarded the Tobias Law Prize.