Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil

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 is also Social Science Division's EDI Associate. She completed her DPhil in Law from University of Oxford, funded by Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. 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. 

Prior to taking up doctoral studies, she read on the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) programme and the MPhil in Law at Oxford as a Cornelia Sorabji Scholar. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the National Law University, Delhi (India). She was awarded Modern Law Review Scholarship in 2021, the Mike Redmayne Award for research into Criminal Law and the Law of Evidence (MLR) in 2022 and the 'Best Doctoral Student Prize' at the Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference 2023. She is an Associate editor of the Indian Law Review and is on the editorial board of The Square Circle Criminal Law Blog.