Titiksha Mohanty

Titiksha is a DPhil candidate in Law at Balliol College, Oxford, where she works under the supervision of Dr. Shreya Atrey. Her research examines why torture resists coherent legal categorisation in Indian constitutional law, with particular attention to the structural limits of the constitutional tort model. Her research spans international human rights law, comparative constitutional law, and public law.

Titiksha holds an MPhil in Law from Oriel College, Oxford, an LLM from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. LL.B (Hons) from Jindal Global Law School, India. She is qualified to practise law in India.

Her engagement with human rights practice spans both domestic and international contexts. She was a Bonavero Summer Fellow and Visiting Lawyer at REDRESS UK, where she worked with the Justice and Reparation teams. Her clinical legal experience includes work at the Legal Aid Clinic on immigration law at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, the Centre of Public Interest Law at Jindal Global Law School, and the e-Government Clinic at Cornell Law School.

Titiksha contributes to teaching at Oxford as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Faculty of Law, a Seminar Leader in Law and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and a tutor in International Human Rights Law at Worcester College.

She is currently an Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. She has also held a range of editorial and leadership roles, including Graduate Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Chair of Oxford Pro Bono Publico, and committee member of the Young Human Rights Lawyers Association. At Cambridge, she was an Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal and a member of the Executive Committee of the Cambridge Pro Bono Project.