Adi Radhakrishnan is a Supervising Attorney and Fellow at the Global Human Rights Clinic. His practice and research focuses on socio-economic rights, areas of armed conflict and justice, and the right to a healthy environment. 

Before joining the University of Chicago Law School, Radhakrishnan worked at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law on projects related to access to health care, disability rights, and the rights of health and care workers, and at Human Rights Watch conducting research and advocacy on access to education, children’s rights, and the human rights impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Radhakrishnan brings experience in rights-based fact finding, participatory research, investigations, litigation, and advocacy worldwide. He works in collaboration with communities to challenge inequality and push for systemic change to address the structural drivers of human rights violations. 

Radhakrishnan holds a JD from Columbia Law School where he received the Edwin Parker Prize for excellence in international and comparative law, and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is admitted to practice law in Washington, DC.