Dr.Pathakji Neha Amit is an Associate Professor at NALSAR University of Law, where she teaches taxation law. She also heads the Centre for Tax Laws at NALSAR, a research centre that engages in critical thinking on questions of tax justice and deepens the discourse on the policy and regulatory aspects of taxation.
Dr.Pathakji researches and writes extensively on taxation laws, regulatory theories, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Her work was cited in a major taxation judgement by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2020. Her more recent book, titled ‘Principles of Taxation’ by Taxmann, serves as a reference for those pursuing tax laws. She has revised the 2nd Edition of HALSBURY’s Laws of India: Direct Tax.
Beyond taxation laws, Dr.Pathakji is deeply interested in researching corporations as private authorities and the profound influence they have on several human rights issues. Her doctoral thesis, which offered a regulatory strategy to secure corporate compliance and create an accessible virtual world for people with disabilities, has been published by Oxford University Press.
While at the University, Dr.Pathakji continues to deepen her passion for taxation law through collaborative research and policy work.
She also aspires to identify and develop meaningful corporate interventions to create a better world through her research and writing.
Currently, she has completed a project titled ‘Making the Invisible Visible in Law Practice and Legal Education’, funded by the United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA). The project involved exploring gendered legal education and critically examining commercial law courses, including Law of Contracts, Company Law, and Tax Law, through a gender lens.