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Staff Profile

Dr Neha Vyas

Lecturer in Commercial Law

Background

Neha joined Newcastle University as a Lecturer in Commercial Law in December 2022. She completed her doctorate in law from Goethe University, Frankfurt in March 2022 with a full scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Law for around 3 years at Christ University in India where she taught competition law, corporate governance, international taxation, and legal language and writing. 


Qualifications

Doctor of Laws

LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Laws

P.G.Diploma in Intellectual Property Law

LL.B.

Bachelor of Commerce


Professional Memberships


Admitted to the Bar Council of India (2015)

Admitted to the Bar Council of Gujarat (2014)

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (2011)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2024)


Other Roles


Research Associate, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW), University of the Western Cape

Member, Women in Development Europe+ (Wide+)

Associate Member, Cornelia Goethe Centre (Frankfurt)

External Examiner, The Association of International Accountants


Doctoral Supervision


Dr Vyas invites expressions of interest from prospective PhD students who want to undertake research in the realm of digitisation and competition law, labour law and digital labour platforms, digitisation and international tax law.









Research


Research Projects


Principal Investigator, Alternative Platform Models for the Domestic Work Sector (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research/impact/altplatforms-domesticworkers/) - ESRC Impact Acceleration Fund. (March 2024 - February 2025)


Volunteer Researcher, Horizon EU Project, FINDHR - Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (https://findhr.eu/). (November 2022 - October 2025)




Research interests


Law and Technology

Regulation of Digital labour platform

Competition law and the digital economy

Algorithmic discrimination through the lens of intersectionality

Labourforce participation of women in the gig economy

The intersection of Competition law & policy and the labour market





Doctoral Supervision


Dr Vyas invites expressions of interest from prospective PhD students who want to undertake research in the realm of digitisation and competition law, labour law and digital labour platforms, digitisation and international tax law,



 

Teaching

LAW 8587 - Law, Digital Labour Platforms and Workers' Rights (LL.M.)

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/mobility/newcastle/study-abroad/LAW8587


LAW 1054 - Business Law



Doctoral Supervision


Dr Vyas invites expressions of interest from prospective PhD students who want to undertake research in the realm of digitisation and competition law, labour law and digital labour platforms, digitisation and international tax law,


Publications