I completed my undergraduate degree in law at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, from where I graduated in 2017 with Gold Medals for Criminal Law; being the Best Orator; and also received the Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for the Best Male Graduate with Proven Leadership Qualities. After graduating from NALSAR, I worked briefly in the disputes practice of S&R Associates, where the lessons learnt in the practice of law were to prove valuable tools for a future career in academia.

The fact that academia was my true calling was a realisation first shaped by my own stint as a Teaching Assistant as a final year student at NALSAR, and then further on as an externally hired TA after graduation. I then went on to pursue my Master of Law at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, where I cultivated my research interests in the intersection of constitutional law and criminal law, and more specifically, in the practice of the death penalty in India. Thereafter, I joined NALSAR as an Assistant Professor in 2021, which in many ways marked a return to my home institution, and I couldn’t have asked for a better start for a career in academia. In my teaching responsibilities, I believe in an active engagement between both, what the law is, and what it ought to be, to nurture the critical analytical abilities in my students, that I credit my own NALSAR education much for.

In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I serve as the Faculty Supervisor of the University’s flagship Lecture Series on Constitutionalism, which aims to bridge the gap between scholarship and practice in the field of constitutionalism, and provide a space for deliberation on cutting-edge issues of constitutional law. My other non-teaching responsibilities also include coordinating the University’s social media outreach programs.

Apart from teaching, I enjoy writing and more so on contemporary themes in public law and criminal justice. Not known as much of a sports person, I do, however, enjoy swimming and occasional jogs to keep up with my fitness travails.

Qualifications:

Master of Law, University of Cambridge (2020–2021)

B.A., L.L.B. (Hons.), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (2012–2017)

Research:

My research interests lie in exploring the intersections between constitutional law and criminal law, and particularly in the field of death sentencing in India.

Publications:

• Presented a paper titled ‘GMR-Maldives Fiasco: Lessons for South Asia’ at the ‘International Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation in SAARC: Problems and Prospects for Investments’ (organised by NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad).
• Authored the article ‘Critiquing the Corporate Social Responsibility Provisions Under the Companies Act, 2013’, N.L.U. Odisha Student Law Journal, ISSN 2350-062X, Vol. 2, (2014).
• TheWire.in; ‘Brokering Justice in Uttarakhand’ (18 May 2016).
• TheWire.in; ‘Delhi Power Tussle: LG is Flirting Dangerously Close to Contempt of Court’ (21 August 2018)
• Law and Other Things; ‘Of Law and Politics in Delhi: A Recipe for Contempt of Court’’(14 September 2018)
• TheWire.in; ‘The Lathi and India’s Colonial Cure for the Coronavirus’ (2 April 2020, co-authored)
• The Hindu (Op-ed), ‘Reaffirm Cooperative Federalism’ (13 May 2020, co-authored)
• TheWire.in; ‘The State Can’t Ignore Legal Safeguards Meant to Protect Citizens from Itself’(13 July 2020)
• Deccan Chronicle, and The Asian Age (Op-ed), ‘A Controversial Judge with A Tumultuous Legacy’ (7 September 2020, co-authored),
• The Hindu (Op-ed), ‘An Unconstitutional Harvest’ (6 October 2020, co-authored),
• TheWire.in; ‘Supreme Court’s Role Is to Dispense ‘Justice’, Not to Arrive at Negotiated Settlements’ (18 January 2021)
• The Hindu (Op-ed), ‘Master and roster’, 02 March 2021,
• The Inevitable Inconsistency of the Death Penalty in India’, Cambridge Law Review (2021) Vol. VI, Issue ii, 27-65

Courses:

The Death Penalty in India: Law, Practice, And A Search For Consistency; Law of Evidence; Jurisprudence, Criminal Law