SJD Student, University of Notre Dame
    Elinor Ostrom Fellow

Pavithra Rajendran is an SJD student in Law at the University of Notre Dame. She earned an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame, an LLM and an LLB in Law from the University of Colombo. Her research interests center around violence against women, in particular how economic vulnerability acts as a barrier to accessing the criminal justice system and how financial empowerment can protect women survivors.