Aniketh Rao
Assistant Lecturer
USP Statham Campus, Suva, Fiji
Email: aniketh.rao@usp.ac.fj
Bio
Aniketh Rao is an Assistant Lecturer in law and a University of London Worldwide Recognised Tutor. He has considerable legal academic experience, which includes over six years of higher education teaching in various academic capacities, and an emerging specialism in human rights law, public law and comparative constitutional studies. His research interests are specially focused in gender and law, anti-discrimination law, and digital rights, following socio-legal approaches of substantive equality, feminist legal theory and intersectionality. His teaching and scholarship also sits at the interface of constitutional and criminal jurisprudences.
He welcomes research supervision for projects that employ doctrinal, theoretical and/or empirical methods, as well as involving interdiscriplinary and/or socio-legal methodologies.
Research Interests:
Human Rights; Reproductive Rights
Anti-discrimination Law; Gender and Law
Feminist legal approaches; Decolonisation of Law
Data protection
EU Law
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Laws
Master of Laws
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (complemented by University of London Worldwide Recognised Tutor Status)
Doctor of Philosophy in Law (awaiting viva voce)
Research works and publications:
Aniketh Rao, “Depathologisation of self-determination of gender identity in European law” London School of Economics and Political Science Researching Sociology, 4 December, 2023 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchingsociology/2023/12/04/depathologisation-of-self-determination-of-gender-identity-in-european-law/
Aniketh Rao, ‘Tackling Menstrual Poverty: A Substantive Approach for Right to Education?’ (2023) 25 Journal of International Women’s Studies 4 https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3104&context=jiws .
Aniketh Rao, “FemTech Apps’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: A Rights-Perspective on Privacy” Oxford Human Rights Hub, 13 December, 2022, https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/femtech-apps-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services-a-rights-perspective-on-privacy/ .
Aniketh Rao, “The Matua Program in Fiji: A ‘Sustainable’ Precedent for Right to Education For ‘All’?” London School of Economics and Political Science Human Rights, 27 July, 2022, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/humanrights/2022/07/27/the-matua-program-in-fiji-a-sustainable-precedent-for-right-to-education-for-all/.
Aniketh Rao, “New Zealand bans conversion therapy and incorporates rights-based mechanism” Oxford Human Rights Hub, 9 June, 2022, https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/new-zealand-bans-conversion-therapy-and-incorporates-rights-based-mechanism/ .
Aniketh A. Rao, One region, two regimes: an analysis of cross-national contrasts amongst legal approaches to dissolution of marriage in the South Pacific (LLM thesis, University of the South Pacific, 2021).
Current projects:
• Feminist legal abortion
• Concept of sensitive data and anti-discrimination law in Fiji