Mihir Rajamane

Mihir is reading for a DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford. His doctoral research project looks at gender and the law as co-constitutive institutions, through a particular focus on transgender identity and practices in South India vis-a-vis the law on affirmative action.

He 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 has completed an LLM in Transnational Law from King's College London, and spent a year working as a junior researcher and legal journalist in Bangalore, India.

Broadly, he reads and writes about queer-feminist legal theory, critical approaches to law, law and society, constitutionalism, equality and judicial systems.