Nitika Khaitan

Nitika is a human rights lawyer and researcher, currently pursuing an Ph.D. in History at Yale University. She has received her LL.M. at Harvard Law School and her research focuses on criminal justice, mental health and queer rights.

Nitika publishes widely on criminal law issues, including fair trial rights, and arbitrary detention. She has led numerous fact-finding investigations into human rights violations with one of India’s leading civil liberties coalitions. Nitika has led national advocacy campaigns and authored several policy reports on gender and sexuality rights.

Her work has been featured by The New York Times and Al Jazeera, and my writing has appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, The Caravan and The Indian Express, among others.