Aniketh Rao

Assistant Lecturer

USP Statham Campus, Suva, Fiji

Email: aniketh.rao@usp.ac.fj

Bio

Aniketh Rao is an Assistant Lecturer in Law in the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of the South Pacific, and a University of London Worldwide Recognised Tutor. His research interests involve human rights law, public law and comparative constitutional studies, with a special focus in gender and law, anti-discrimination law, and data protection, following socio-legal approaches of substantive equality, feminist legal theory and intersectionality.

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” 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’?” LSE 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