Mahek Anil Bhatia

I am a PhD candidate in the Law School, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). I read for the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford (Somerville College) as the Cornelia Sorabji Scholar, where my dissertation on marital rape litigation won the Best Dissertation Prize. Before this, I graduated with a first-class law degree from Warwick Law School, where I was the Global Excellence Scholar. Broadly, my work sits at the intersection of criminology and feminist legal theories.

My research will explore victim and lawyer engagements in cases involving marital rape and sexual violence, drawing from feminist and critical theories. It focuses on the role of lawyers as key intermediaries and stakeholders in legal processes.