Education

• BA LLB (Hons.), West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
• LLM, SOAS, University of London

Profile

Diksha graduated with a BA LLB (Hons.) degree from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from SOAS, University of London, where she studied as a Felix Scholar. She is currently completing her doctoral research at University College London (UCL), supported by the UCL Faculty Research Scholarship.

She is currently completing her doctoral research at University College London (UCL), supported by the UCL Faculty Research Scholarship. Her doctoral work examines how live-in couples in India use private, quasi-legal agreements to navigate legal and social vulnerabilities. She draws on socio-legal, empirical methods and interdisciplinary approaches to law.

Diksha’s research lies at the intersection of law and society, feminist legal theory, and queer legal studies, with a particular focus on the legal regulation of family and intimate relationships. More broadly, she is interested in how atypical, non-traditional families and intimacies, outside conventional frameworks of marriage and kinship, engage with the law, and has taught courses on Family Law, Gender & Society and Queer Jurisprudence and Advocacy.

Prior to joining academia, she worked in legal policy and advocacy, where she examined gender representation in the Indian judiciary and the infrastructural accessibility of district courts in India.