Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil

Aradhana is the Lord and Lady McNair Early Career Fellow in Law at Somerville College, teaching Criminal Law and Constitutional Law to undergraduate students and Comparative Human Rights to postgraduate students in the BCL/MJurs programme. Her doctoral research funded by the Gopal Subramaniam scholarship, examined how rape adjudication takes place in India. She serves as the Research Director for the Oxford Human Rights Hub. 

Prior to taking up doctoral studies, she read for the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) programme and the MPhil in Law at Oxford as a Cornelia Sorabji Scholar. She also holds a B.A. LL.B. degree from the National Law University, Delhi (India).

Awards and Previous Qualifications

• BA, LLB (Hons), National Law University Delhi (July 2017)
• Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford (July 2018)
• Master of Philosophy in Law, University of Oxford (October 2019)
• Awarded Archibald Jackson Prize for securing a Distinction on the BCL
• Awarded Suresh Shroff Gold Medal for First Rank Holder of Batch of 2012-17, National Law University, Delhi.
• Recipient of Cornelia Sorabji Scholarship by Somerville College, University of Oxford and Goa Education Trust (British Council) Scholarship to pursue Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at University of Oxford for the year 2017-18.
• Recipient of Somerville College Alumni Scholarship and scholarship by Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) to pursue MPhil (Law) at University of Oxford for the year 2018-19.
• Recipient of Gopal Subramanium Scholarship by the OICSD Somerville College to pursue DPhil (Law) at University of Oxford starting October 2019.
• Awarded Modern Law Review Scholarship 2021.
• Awarded Mike Redmayne Award for research into Criminal Law and the Law of Evidence (MLR) 2022.
• Awarded Best Doctoral Student Prize at the Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference 2023.