Akriti Gaur is an Indian lawyer currently pursuing a J.S.D. at Yale Law School where she served as a Tutor in Law from 2022-2024. She obtained her LL.M. degree from YLS in 2022. During her LL.M. year, she assisted the International Refugee Assistance Project Clinic and served on the editorial board of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. Currently, Akriti is a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, Senior Fellow at the Yale Genocide Studies Program (Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era Project) and Senior Director’s Fellow at the Yale Digital Ethics Center. Akriti was awarded the Robina International Human Rights Fellowship in 2024 to spend a year at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France where she clerked for Judge Darian Pavli and assisted the Jurisconsult of the Court. Before coming to Yale, Akriti was a policy advisor and an independent researcher focusing on technology and human rights in India. She was a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India, where she established the Applied Law and Technology Research Centre (ALTR) in 2019. She has worked with think tanks and advised the Indian Government and the Supreme Court of India on contemporary technology policy reforms.
Her most recent publications include Shapeshifting Speech (Mitchell Hamline Law Review, Vol 52, forthcoming, 2025) and Tech, State, and Social Media in Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024 (Anmol Jain & Tanja Herklotz (eds.), Verfassungsbook, 2025).
Akriti researches and writes on digital speech and authoritarianism. Her J.S.D. dissertation focuses on constitutional resilience and the distortion of the democratic public sphere in the age of social media platforms, particularly in the Majority world.d.
Doctoral Committee
Jack Balkin (chair), Robert Post, Samuel Moyn, and James Whitman
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School (2022)
B.A. LL.B., National Law University, Jodhpur (2015)
Contact information
akriti.gaur@yale.edu