Sangeetha is an award-winning international human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers, a two-time TEDx speaker, an immigration Judge, and a Senior Scholar at both Yale and Oxford Universities. Sangeetha is also Director of the Institute for Law and Policy on Climate Mobility at the University of Oxford. She has two decades of experience specialising in asylum, immigration and international human rights matters and is a thought leader in the fields of global migration, climate and international human rights.
About
In her practice, Sangeetha specialises in international human rights and public law. She has acted in several landmark cases over the course of her career. Sangeetha also spent several years living and working ‘on the frontline’ advising on rule of law and justice sector development issues. Sangeetha’s academic appointments ensure she remains at the forefront of legal scholarship on human rights. All of her work is dedicated to improving access to rights for the most vulnerable members of our global community.
Alongside her practice and her academic appointments, Sangeetha also sits as a part-time Judge of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
About
Sangeetha is an award-winning international human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers, a two-time TEDx speaker, an immigration Judge, and a Senior Scholar at both Yale and Oxford Universities. Sangeetha is also Director of the Institute for Law and Policy on Climate Mobility at the University of Oxford. She has two decades of experience specialising in asylum, immigration and international human rights matters and is a thought leader in the fields of global migration, climate and international human rights.
In her practice, Sangeetha specialises in international human rights and public law. She has acted in several landmark cases over the course of her career. Sangeetha also spent several years living and working ‘on the frontline’ advising on rule of law and justice sector development issues. Sangeetha’s academic appointments ensure she remains at the forefront of legal scholarship on human rights. All of her work is dedicated to improving access to rights for the most vulnerable members of our global community.
Alongside her practice and her academic appointments, Sangeetha also sits as a part-time Judge of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Sangeetha is committed to pro bono work and this is a central pillar of her practice. Much of her pro bono work involves combatting the human rights abuses of asylum seekers arriving at the ‘first shores’ of Europe. She sits as President of the Board of Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid, a legal NGO in Lesvos. She also sits on the Global Advisory Board of SAHR, a feminist legal NGO seeking to end impunity for crimes of sexual and gender based.
Sangeetha is a published writer, having written on a broad range of human rights, rule of law and migration issues. A seasoned public speaker, she regularly gives keynote speeches, participates in expert panel discussions and gives trainings and lectures on a variety of human rights issues. She also regularly appears on the television, radio and in print media as a human rights expert. Sangeetha’s first TEDx talk is on the erosion of migrant’s rights. Her second TEDx talk will be on climate mobility.
Sangeetha is currently harnessing her expertise and experience as a seasoned advocate, practitioner, humanitarian, scholar, public speaker and adjudicator to promote a rights-based approach to climate-related migration. She is co-leading a project on climate mobility with the University of Oxford, where she serves as a Senior Scholar.
Sangeetha was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and is a Diplock Scholar of Middle Temple.