I fondly recall my first formal interaction with NLS back in 2019, while I was still an Associate at the Centre for Law & Policy Research. I was struck by how well-read the students were. Not only were they conversant with the latest Supreme Court judgments, but they would also critically engage with these judgments by locating them within overarching debates in the academic literature. I am thrilled to now be part of this vibrant intellectual community at NLSIU, five years after my initial interaction.

Prior to joining NLS, I pursued an LLM from the University of Cambridge as a fully-funded Trinity Singhvi Scholar, where I wrote a dissertation examining the limits of legal transplantation through an analysis of Indian anti-discrimination doctrine. I also had the opportunity to enroll in Prof. Alison Young’s class on contemporary debates in constitutional theory and Prof. Lars Vinx’s foundational course on jurisprudence.

I am currently working on two projects. The first arose out of my Cambridge dissertation on the Indian Supreme Court’s borrowing of Canadian indirect discrimination doctrine. I examine whether anti-discrimination law possesses unique features that make it less compatible with legal transplantation. My second project, which is still in its infancy, revolves around questions of (in)determinacy in the law.