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    ABHINAV CHANDRACHUD

    abhinavc@stanford.edu

    EDUCATION

    J.S.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School

    J.S.M. ’12, Stanford Law School

    LL.M. ’09, Harvard Law School

    LL.B. ’08, B.L.S. ’06, Government Law College, Mumbai: won the Honourable Justice D.P.
    Madon Prize in Constitutional Law (Mumbai University) (2006), and the Yashwant Dalal
    and Ranganath Rao prizes for best student (2007-08). Mumbai University rank-holder
    (2008). Obtained First Class honours every year between 2003-2008.

    PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

    Associate Attorney, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Los Angeles and Singapore offices), 2009-
    2011

    Paralegal (Student Associate), AZB & Partners (Mumbai office), 2005 – 2008

    Trainee Law Clerk, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, August – September 2006

    BOOKS

    Due process of law (Lucknow: Eastern Book Company, 2011)

    The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria for Selecting and Appointing Judges to the
    Supreme Court of India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2014)

    PAPERS

    “‘Due Process of Law’ and the Indian Constitution”, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the
    Indian Constitution (2014)

    “Wednesbury reformulated: proportionality and the Supreme Court of India”, Oxford University
    Commonwealth Law Journal (2013)

    “Diversity and the International Criminal Court: does geographic background impact decision-
    making?”, Brooklyn Journal of International Law (2013)
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    “Does life tenure make judges more independent? An empirical study of judicial appointments in
    India”, Connecticut Journal of International Law (2013)

    “Speech, structure and behaviour on the Supreme Court of India”, Columbia Journal of Asian
    Law (2012)

    “The emerging market for corporate control in India”, Washington University Global Studies Law
    Review (2011)

    “An empirical study of the Supreme Court’s composition”, Economic and Political Weekly (2010)

    WORKS IN PROGRESS

    “An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court During the British
    Raj, 1862-1947”, doctoral dissertation

    “From Hyderabad to Harvard: How U.S. Law Schools Make Clerking on the Supreme Court of
    India Worthwhile”, research paper

    “Justice Jayakar’s New Clothes: Colonial Judges’ Court Attire in British India”, research paper

    NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS:

    “My dear Chagla”, Frontline magazine, February 7, 2014

    “Age, seniority, diversity”, Frontline magazine, May 3, 2013

    “Book review: Voice of a bygone era”, Frontline magazine, February 8, 2013

    “The need to have a uniform retirement age for judges”, Economic and Political Weekly,
    November 17, 2012

    “Supreme Court’s Seniority Norm: Historical Origins”, Economic and Political Weekly, February
    25, 2012

    “New York Times, Now”, Outlook magazine online, November 28, 2011

    “The age factor”, Frontline magazine, October 21, 2011

    “Inconsistent Death Sentencing in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, July 23, 2011

    “Regional Representation on the Supreme Court of India”, Economic and Political Weekly, May
    14, 2011

    “Freedom, faith, fear”, Indian Express, January 26, 2011

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    “The Bigg Debate”, Indian Express, November 24, 2010

    “Dowry, bribery, crime and punishment”, The Hindu, November 3, 2010

    “Protecting the lawgivers”, Times of India, September 29, 2010

    “Of constitutional ‘due process’”, The Hindu, May 24, 2010

    “The Insulation of India’s Constitutional Judiciary”, Economic and Political Weekly, March 27,
    2010

    “Supreme, but not superior”, Indian Express, February 23, 2010

    “Some points about rights”, Indian Express, January 8, 2010

    “Don’t mind your language”, Indian Express, November 11, 2009

    “Assets and liabilities”, Indian Express, August 28, 2009

    “Dialogic judicial activism in India”, The Hindu, July 18, 2009

    “Secularly swearing”, Indian Express, May 26, 2009

    “Tongue tied in fear of retribution”, Daily News and Analysis, May 3, 2009

    “From culture to cow urine: The moral paradoxes of India’s Hindu right”, Harvard Law Record,
    May 19, 2009

    “Overseas citizen: A horse with no name”, The Hindu, April 15, 2009

    “Not above the law”, Times of India, April 7, 2009

    “Deliver us from fear”, Indian Express, January 27, 2009

    TEACHING, RESEARCH, CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

    Visiting Professor, Nalsar University of Law (Hyderabad, India), Winter 2014: taught a 2-credit
    seminar titled “History of India’s Legal Profession: An Introduction”

    “An Independent, Colonial Judiciary”, doctoral dissertation presented at the K.R. Cama Oriental
    Institute (Mumbai, India), November 2013

    Research Assistant, Stanford Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, September 2013
    onwards

    Research Assistant, Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reform in India, Planning
    Commission, Government of India, 2007-2008

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    ABHINAV CHANDRACHUD

    Guest Lecturer, Government Law College, Mumbai; K.C. Law College, Mumbai; Maharashtra
    Judicial Academy, Uttan.

    BAR MEMBERSHIPS

    State of New York, U.S.: since 2010

    India (Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa): since 2008

    LANGUAGES

    Hindi (fluent), Marathi (fluent), French (basic)

    INTERESTS

    Contributor to the blog “Law and Other Things”

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