Arpitha Kodiveri
Research Affiliate
Earth Rights Advocacy

Arpitha Kodiveri is a Research Affiliate in the Earth Rights Advocacy program and former research director at the Center. She is an environmental law and justice scholar and currently an assistant professor of political science at Vassar College. Her work focuses on the role of law in the context of redressing climate harms faced by indigenous communities in South Asia. Her previous research examines land conflicts and legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities in India. She has worked as an environmental lawyer supporting Adivasi and forest-dwelling communities in India. She is the recipient of the Hans Kelsen Fellowship at the EUI and the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship.

Arpitha received her Doctoral degree in law from the European University Institute as a Hans Kelsen Fellow. She has an LLM from UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Nehru Fellow and a BSL LLB from ILS Law College, Pune.