Welfare at the Cost of Welfare

Sneha Priya Yanappa is a Senior Project Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, where she currently works on legal and institutional frameworks for urban heat resilience and climate governance. Her current work focuses on identifying legal and institutional solutions to the impacts of extreme heat across sectors including urban governance, public health, labour and education, with the aim of embedding climate resilience into laws and policies. Formerly the Team Lead for Vidhi Karnataka, she has advised the Government of Karnataka on legislative drafting and regulatory reforms across urban governance, climate change, environmental governance, education and rights-based policy. Her work examines how law, governance and institutional reform can make cities more equitable, liveable and sustainable. Her interests span climate change, urban governance, constitutional law, public international law and public policy. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford and a B.A. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune.

Avinash was a Project Fellow with the Education team. He graduated from National Academy of Legal Studies And Research (NALSAR) University of Law, Hyderabad with a B.A.,LLB. (Hons.) and completed his Advanced Masters (LLM) in International Children Rights from Leiden University. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Trustee of DEVISE – Developing Inclusive Education, through which he focuses on English language education, climate change education and experiential learning. He has previously interned with UNICEF and Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) to conduct legal research studies based on the Juvenile Justice Act and its implementation. He has written on rights of minorities and socio-economic rights for blogs such as LSE Human Rights Blog, LSE South Asia Blog and Völkerrechtsblog.