Vandita Khanna

Vandita Khanna is a PhD in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. In her doctoral thesis, she studies how human rights law constructs the relationship between race and poverty and explores the role of equality law in addressing racialized poverty, with a focus on the European Convention on Human Rights. During her PhD, she spent four months as a visiting PhD fellow at the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights in Berlin in 2023. More broadly, her research interests lie at the intersection of equality and non-discrimination law, critical race theory, and the history of human rights. At Cambridge, she was previously an undergraduate supervisor in Human Rights Law and a Graduate Teaching Assistant for LL.M. students in Race, Gender and the Law. Vandita is also the Case Commentary Editor at the European Human Rights Law Review and Associate Editor at the Indian Law Review. Prior to the PhD, she read for the MPhil in Law and Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from Jindal Global Law School, India.