Assistant Professor @BMLUniv | Assistant Editor @IndianLawReview | Courts, constitutions, legal history.

New Delhi, India
Joined October 2022
Please join us for the inaugural lecture of the Delhi Public Law Forum, jointly organised by the School of Law, @BMLUniv and @CPR_India! The event will be take place in hybrid mode today, 4 pm onwards, at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.
When a platform is designed to hold your attention, where should the law draw the line? The School of Law, BML Munjal University, in collaboration with The Centre for Policy Research, invites you to the inaugural lecture of the Delhi Public Law Forum, a new series of conversations on law, society and public discourse. The inaugural discussion, “The Addictive Design of Social Media Platforms: Law and Policy Challenges,” will examine the legal and policy questions emerging around the architecture of social media and its impact on users. The conversation will feature Mr. Apar G., Founder Director, Internet Freedom Foundation, with Prof. Vikas Kathuria and Prof. Lawrence Liang as discussants, moderated by Mr. Shardool Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, School of Law, BML Munjal University. 📅 25 September 2026 ⏰ 4:00 PM IST onwards 📍 Hybrid | CPR Conference Room + Zoom Register to be part of the conversation. Google Form: forms.gle/bPDogTjWsJzeLmfa9 Zoom Link : zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_… #BMU #BMLMunjalUniversity #SchoolOfLaw #DelhiPublicLawForum
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Please do join us for what promises to be an interesting discussion!
At a time when conversations around constitutional values are more important than ever, the Centre for Constitutional Values, School of Law, BML Munjal University presents the 3rd Constitutional Cultures Lecture, bringing together some of India’s most respected legal and academic minds. The event will feature a keynote address by Justice Abhay S. Oka, Retd. Judge, Supreme Court of India, followed by a panel discussion on “Political Legitimacy and the Place of Courts.” The panel includes: Justice S. Muralidhar, Former Chief Justice, High Court of Orissa, and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India Professor Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor, Chanakya National Law University Professor Gurpreet Mahajan, Former Professor of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University Date: 22 November 2025 Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Venue: CD Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre Join us for an evening of insight and dialogue that strengthens the understanding of India’s constitutional foundations. #BMU #BMLMunjalUniversity #SchoolofLaw
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Thanks! Copies available in India now
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Excited to be a part of the new team!
The ESCLH Blog Team has been reshuffled. We thank @FBatsele @P_Alexandrowicz, Priyasha Saksena, Kamila Staudigl-Chiechowicz and Arthur Barrêto, to welcome Michael Reichenthaler, @ShardoolKulk, Ida Ferrero and Armando José Santana Bugés ⬇️ esclh.blogspot.com/2024/03/e…
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Join us for the next exciting PACT Book Panel on 4 March 10am 📚💭 This time we discuss Nazmul Sultan's 'Waiting for the People' 📕 Register for FREE here 👉pactproject.net/2024/02/15/b…
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Volume 1.1 is now live!! We are beyond excited and proud. All articles available open access until the end of the year at elgaronline.com/view/journal…
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How do we critically re-examine the consequences of 'hypercarceral laws'? @pkotiswaran and Shardha Rajam author a critique of the Indian Trafficking in Persons Bill 2021, through an examination of the constitutionality of hypercriminalization. Read their latest piece in the ILR:
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Call for Proposals: Special Issue ILR is inviting proposals from Guest Editors in all areas of law to publish a special issue in 2024. Deadline: 30 September 2023 Please email your proposals to: indlawrev@gmail.com Further details below.
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Looks like our book is out in the world!! A quantitative study of the Supreme Court of India, with @skalantry and William Hubbard. Published by the good folks at @PenguinIndia Grab your copy today! penguin.co.in/book/court-on-…
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It's out! Student groups from 36 Indian law schools collectively condemn and stand in solidarity against the BCI's regressive, ignorant, and harmful Resolution on marriage equality. #LawStudentsAgainstBCI Links & more below!
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📖 An important new paper by Fred Schauer on "Unoriginal Textualism," suggesting that we should (1) disentangle textualism from originalism; and (2) develop a theory of contemporary meaning originalism. Well worth reading! Full text: gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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NLUD is proud to launch the 1st Doctoral Colloquium on Law & Contemporary Issues in India to be held on 16-18 March 2023. Submit your abstracts along with your CV at nludphdcolloquium@nludelhi.ac.in by 30 Jan, with the subject “NLUDPHDCOLLOQUIUM2023 Submission - [your name]”
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📚 Our two papers on constitutional conventions are now free to read in the International Journal of Constitutional Law. We show that courts *do* enforce conventions: academic.oup.com/icon/articl…. And we theorize limits on when courts may properly do so: academic.oup.com/icon/articl….
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