Rights in Crisis: Unpaid Domestic Labour and Cash Transfer Schemes

The OICSD is collaborating with the Oxford Human Rights Hub to curate a series of conversations under the title, Rights in Crisis. The series will feature topics on human rights and related issues in India with experts sharing their insights. Our third edition will discuss the state's approach towards unpaid domestic labour and the recent focus on direct cash transfer schemes for women. Prof Prabha Kotiswaran will be in conversation with Prof. Sandra Fredman and Dr Aradhana CV will moderate the discussion.  

Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran is a Professor of Law and Social Justice at King's College London and previously taught at SOAS. She received her undergraduate law degree in India from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and then an LLM and SJD (doctorate) from Harvard Law School. She also practiced law at the New York law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton. Her main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies and sociology of law.

Prof Sandra Fredman is the Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University, and the Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012.   She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law and labour law, including numerous peer-reviewed articles. 

Dr Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil is the Lord and Lady McNair Early Career Fellow in Law at Somerville College, teaching criminal law, constitutional law, comparative human rights and comparative equality law.  She is the Research Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She completed her DPhil in Law from University of Oxford, funded by Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Modern Law Review. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Laura Hoyano, examined how rape adjudication takes place in India. Her research and teaching interests span criminal justice, feminist theory, family law, equality law and human rights law.