College of Law

Mini Saxena

Key information

Roles
PhD Candidate Teaching Fellow
Department
College of Law
Qualifications
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (National Law University Delhi), LLM Law and Gender (SOAS), LLM (Harvard Law School)
Email address
ms194@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Conditional Sexual Consent in India: Beyond Criminal Law
Internal Supervisors
Dr Kanika Sharma & Dr Mayur Suresh

Biography

Mini has studied law and worked as a lawyer across multiple jurisdictions.

She obtained her first law degree from India, after which she started her career at a Magic Circle law firm in London, subsequently moving to a nonprofit in rural north India, and finally transitioning into academia by leading an empirical study on legal barriers to abortion. More recently, she has completed LLMs from SOAS and Harvard Law School.

She is currently pursuing her PhD at SOAS while also working as a Teaching Fellow. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender and the law, and feminist legal theory.

Research interests

Feminist legal theory(ies), sexual misconduct, intersectionality, legal anthropology

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