Education

• BA LLB (Hons), National Law Institute University, Bhopal
• LLM in Law and Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

Profile

Aditi joined NLSIU in February 2025 as a Research Assistant (Legal) at the Centre for Child and the Law, where she was part of the Centre’s ‘Right to Food’ team. She worked with Dr. Neetu Sharma on supporting State governments in framing rules under the National Food Security Act. During her time at the Centre, she also served as a Teaching Assistant to Prof. Babu Mathew.

Aditi has worked on Right to Education issues across various districts of Bihar and served as a Legal Consultant for FaMeTN (MSME Department, Government of Tamil Nadu).

Her experiences across these domains have shaped her research interest in understanding the collective potential of labour law and its relationship with the broader field of law and development, particularly within the social protection framework.

Publication

Thakur, Aditi and Babu Mathew. “Minimum Wage, Floor Wage, and the Politics of Conflation in Indian Labour Law”.‘Labour’, Centre for Labour Law Research and Advocacy. National Law University Delhi. 2026

Thakur, Aditi. “The Ideal Prisoner and The Limits of Reasonable Accommodation in Indian Prisons”. National Law School of India Review. 2026

Thakur, Aditi. “Mapping Ableism in Indian Legal Structures”. Economics and Political Weekly. 2025

Thakur, Aditi and Vijay K. Tiwari. “Legal Victories, Lived Defeats: Disability Justice After the ‘Courtroom Revolution.” The Wire. 2025

Thakur, Aditi. Why nature deserves a seat at the table: A case study on nature’s personhood. Jindal Global Law Review 15, 671–691 2024.