Mihir Rajamane

Mihir (he/they) is a DPhil Candidate in Socio-Legal Studies. His doctoral research project looks at the legal recognition of gender minorities in South India, with a focus on schemes of affirmative action. Broadly, he reads and writes about trans, queer and feminist legal theory, socio-legal studies, constitutionalism, equality and judicial systems.

Mihir currently serves as a co-convenor of the Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group, and a part-time Research Fellow at the Centre for Law & Policy Research. They are also a Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the National Law School University of India. They have previously been a Waynflete Academic in Law at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and a legal journalist in Bangalore, India.

Mihir holds a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the Law Faculty Prize for Feminist Perspectives in Law and a Demy-Scholarship by Magdalen College. He also holds an LLM in Transnational Law from King's College London, and was awarded the Best student in Transnational Law as well as Best dissertation in Transnational Law. At both Oxford and King's, he has taken up various roles for student community, outreach and access, and had success in mooting. 

They have presented work at the Courts and Constitution Conference 2022, Transform: National Conference on Transgender Rights and the Law 2022, RHUL Symposium on Diversity in the Indian Judiciary and Legal Profession 2024 and the MK Nambyar SAARC Law Centre Law and Democracy Workshop in 2025. They have also written for various web platforms including the Oxford Human Rights Hub blog, Doing Sociology, The Quint, The Leaflet and the Supreme Court Observer.