Dr. Nishant Singh Rawat

At Nyaya Pathshala

As Associate Editor, Dr. Rawat looks after the guides that matter most to working people. Convener of Lloyd Law College's 2026 Labour Law Conference and a researcher on the new Labour Codes, occupational safety and child labour, he reviews our guides on wages, gratuity, provident fund, wrongful termination, domestic workers and child labour. A criminal law specialist who also writes on judicial power and the separation of powers, he reviews our explainers on the courts and the Constitution, and brings the instincts of a social worker as founder of the NGO AADI – A Step towards Humanity.

Profile

Dr. Nishant Singh Rawat is an Assistant Professor of Law at Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, where he has taught since April 2023, and was Convener of the college's Labour Law Conference in 2026. He earlier taught at Asian Law College, Noida, Jagannath Vishwa Law College, Dehradun, and ICFAI University, Dehradun. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (2026), an LL.M. in Criminal Law from Himachal Pradesh National Law University, an LL.B. from Law Centre I, University of Delhi, and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from Kirori Mal College, and is UGC-NET qualified. He has presented papers on labour codes and occupational mental health, girl child workers, mediation in labour disputes, forensic evidence and privacy, judicial overreach, delimitation and Kautilya's Arthashastra, including at the Oxford Dharma Conference, 2025. He has written for the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Bar & Bench and Legal Wires, where he was an editor, and is the founder and chairman of the NGO AADI – A Step towards Humanity. A former NCC cadet honoured with the Kirori Mal College Blazer, he has also completed basic and advanced mountaineering courses.

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