Sangh Rakshita Rakshita

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Rakshita is a lawyer by training and a law and technology researcher. She is a PhD candidate at Tilburg Law School where she focuses on comparative study of regulatory approaches to algorithmic discrimination and teaches Comparative Administration Law and Regulation.

Previously a she worked as a researcher on Algorithmic Management at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford for the project ‘iMANAGE - Rethinking Employment Law for a World of Algorithmic Management’. Her research focused upon law and policy frameworks for regulation of algorithmic management using principles from data protection law, labour law and equality law, specifically from a comparative lens of Europe and Global South. Rakshita has also taught Regulation of Internet Technologies for Stanford University. She has consulted with RegGenome on matters of automation of data protection and cyber security law compliance.

She completed her master’s in law (BCL) from the University of Oxford. Before joining Oxford, she worked as a law and technology researcher at the Centre for Communication Governance, India and as a legislative assistant in the Parliament of India (LAMP fellow) where she drafted and submitted legislative interventions focused on digital rights and internet shutdowns. Rakshita has extensively researched the landscape of internet shutdowns, online censorship and information control in India and South Asia as the author of the Freedom on the Net report for India, 2020 and 2021; and a part of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom. She has also led discussion panels on encryption and freedom of speech at the UN IGF 2020.

She collaborated and consulted with various international organisations and research groups such as the United Nations Development Programme, Freedom House, , Internet Society, Oxford Pro bono Publico, Human Rights Watch , UN IGF  and ISOC on issues of online speech, internet shutdowns, data protection, digital identity, content moderation, and regulation of AI.

Rakshita's research interests lie at the intersection of public law, regulatory theory, public policy, human rights and technology.