Amit Anand

Amit Anand is presently working as an Assistant Professor at School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bengaluru. He has completed his PhD (Law) from Lancaster University, U.K. in 2022 on the topic ‘Unheard and Unnoticed: Violence Against Women in India (A Study of Practice of Witch-hunting, Honour Killing and Devadasi System)’. He holds LL.M (Human Rights) from the University of Reading, U.K. (2015) and B.A.LL.B. (Honours.) from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (2014). He has presented several oral statements to separate United Nations Treaty Bodies. His joint submission on ‘Measures to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children in Residential Care Homes in India’ to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), September 2021 has been cited by the UNCRC. He has also submitted written evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament on ‘Women’s reproductive health in the UK’, October 2023. He has several paper publications in both national and international peer reviewed journals. He has also presented his research at national and international conferences including at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Publications

Intersections Between Rights and Technology
Intersections Between Rights and Technology
Amit Anand, Akanksha Madaan, Alicia Danielsson. © 2024. 475 pages.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is swiftly reshaping global regulatory frameworks, and current discussions on privacy have been thrust into the limelight. The virtual spaces we...
Temple Prostitution in India: An Exploitative Practice in the Name of Religion
Temple Prostitution in India: An Exploitative Practice in the Name of Religion
Amit Anand. © 2024. 19 pages.
The practice of ‘marrying' young girls of lower castes to gods and goddesses is one of the oldest cultural practices in India. This practice is called the devadasi system in...