Anjali Rawat

Anjali Rawat is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Exeter College. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Rachel Taylor and Professor Sandra Fredman, examines substantive equality for women in the context of polygyny in India and South Africa through a comparative constitutional analysis. Her research interests lie in public law, constitutional and administrative law, human rights and equality law, family law, feminist constitutional theory, comparative law, and questions of gender and legal pluralism.

At Exeter, Anjali teaches Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. She has also taught Human Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Family Law and Feminist Theory at Oxford, as well as at universities in France and London. Her teaching interests lie primarily in public law, particularly constitutional and administrative law and human rights and equality law, alongside legal and feminist theory.

Anjali completed the BCL and MPhil in Law at the University of Oxford and holds a BA LLB (Hons) from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, where she graduated top of her cohort and received ten gold medals. Before returning to academia, she worked as a Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant to Justice L. Nageswara Rao at the Supreme Court of India and as a corporate lawyer at ICICI Bank.