Professor Prabha Kotiswaran is Professor of Law and Social Justice at the King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law. Her main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies and sociology of law. She is the author of Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India, published by Princeton University Press (2011) and co-published by Oxford University Press, India (2011), which won the SLSA-Hart Book Prize for Early Career Academics and has been extensively reviewed by several law and inter-disciplinary journals. Her research has been funded by the AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, ESRC, European Research Council, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. She was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2014.
Arushi Gupta
Legal Researcher
Arushi has been trained as a lawyer and graduated from the Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai in 2022. She has worked as a litigator and legal researcher focused on increasing access to justice for marginalized groups. Currently she works as a legal researcher at the Laws of Social Reproduction project where she has undertaken the empirical analysis of recognition of women’s unpaid labour by courts in family law cases.
Ashwin Belur
Volunteer Quantitative Researcher
Ashwin is a budding development economist. He holds an MSc in Economics from UCL (Merit) and a BA in Mathematics (Honors) from Johns Hopkins University. His interests lie in applied microeconomics and program evaluation applied in the context of development economics. His Master's dissertation at UCL entitled ‘The Heterogeneous Treatment Effect of the Kenyan Cash Transfer Program (The Impact of Risk and Time Preferences)’ earned a distinction. He continues to devote time to quantitative research methods including those related to the estimation of treatment effects. In the Laws of Social Reproduction project, Ashwin helped investigate the impact of regional cash transfers aimed at empowering women from rural backgrounds in Karnataka.
Dr. Rebecca Hannah is a social worker with more than 20 years of experience in development and research in the health sector. She has a strong commitment to serving the needs of disadvantaged, marginalized, and vulnerable communities. Her skills lie in building community support, key coalitions, and strategic inter-agency partnerships. She has extensive experience on projects with international organisations as well as national and state governments. Rebecca is also a passionate counsellor and an advocate for gender equity and social justice. Her work on the project has involved research on unpaid care and domestic work of women and education of young women in Tamil Nadu.
Gale Andrew
Researcher
Gale completed her undergraduate law degree from National Law University Delhi in 2018, during which she worked on the Death Penalty India Report. She read for the LL.M. in Human Rights, Conflict, and Justice at SOAS University of London in 2019. She then worked as a Senior Associate at Project 39A, undertaking research on the death penalty, legal aid, bail, and custodial violence. She recently graduated from the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford. In the Laws of Social Reproduction project, she assisted with the preparation of various outputs based on the findings of the study.
Harini Raghupathy
Legal Researcher
Harini is a lawyer by training. She graduated from Symbiosis Law School, Pune in 2018, after which, she practiced as a lawyer in Delhi representing victims of gender-based violence, with her focused on human rights and criminal justice issues. Currently she works as a legal researcher at the Laws of Social Reproduction project where she has undertaken the empirical analysis of recognition of women’s unpaid labour by courts in family law cases.
Jehosh Paul
Lawyer and Qualitative Research Consultant
Jehosh Paul is a lawyer by training, with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from CHRIST University, Bengaluru and an LL.M in Law and Development from Azim Premji University. His work in the Project focuses on women’s unpaid domestic and care work, including the monitoring and evaluation of key government initiatives in Karnataka aimed at supporting and empowering women.
Madhusree holds a PhD in Social Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research focuses on how displacement reshapes gender relations and impacts women’s reproductive rights; spanning the areas of women’s informal work, reproductive labour, sexual and reproductive health rights, and forced displacement. With extensive fieldwork experience, she has worked with surrogates, egg donors, and displaced women across India. Her empirical work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. In the Laws of Social Reproduction, she researches surrogacy and egg donation in India’s Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) sector as well as gender and mobility.
Nidhi C
Qualitative Researcher
Nidhi C completed her MSc in Economics from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar School of Economics University. Her areas of interest include gender and caste discrimination as well as development programmes. She is a qualitative researcher on the Laws Her work on the Project focuses on women’s unpaid domestic and care work, including the monitoring and evaluation of key government initiatives in Karnataka aimed at supporting and empowering women.
Priyadharshini S
Qualitative Researcher
Priyadharshini S is graduate in economics with two years of undergraduate teaching experience. Her work centres on studying the sociopolitical forces shaping society and helping to promote social justice. As a certified urban practitioner, she has deepened her understanding of urban development and its social impacts. She is currently a qualitative researcher with the Laws of Social Reproduction project, examining how public policy affects women’s access to resources, economic participation, and social mobility. Her research aims to inform policymakers and support grassroots advocacy.
Vasundhara Thoyakkat
Quantitative Researcher
Vasundhara Thoyakkat is an economist interested in evaluating inefficiencies arising at the intersection of gender, development, and institutions. She completed the B.A. (Honours) in Economics (First) from Miranda House, University of Delhi, and MSc in Economics (Merit) from University College London. Currently, she works as a Quantitative Research Associate on the Laws of Social Reproduction project investigating the impact of regional cash transfers aimed at empowering women from rural backgrounds in pursuing higher education.
Arihant (he/him) is a software engineer and fiction writer. He keeps marvelling at parallels between software engineering and writing. He likes to make accessible websites. He obsesses over rich text editors and read other people's code as often as other people's books. His favourite voice to write in is first, especially in writing slipstream fiction.
Mrinalini (she/they) is a social impact design consultant, graphic designer, and illustrator working at the intersection of inclusivity, design and pedagogy. Her practice centres on feminist projects that advocate for women's and LGBTQIA+ rights, and her work prioritises accessibility, education, and visual storytelling to drive meaningful change.
