This book, edited by Ginsberg, Huq and Tarun Khaitan, includes contributions by legal scholars to the discussion about the relationship between constitutional law and democracy. Open access: cambridge.org/core/services/…

Kudos to the National Law School for commissioning its long-overdue statutory review. This scrupulously independent, thoroughly consultative & visionary School Review Commission Report is a must-read for anyone interested in legal education in India. nls.ac.in/wp-content/upl…

Any assessment of academics, universities, journals etc must be done by their academic peers, not by state officials. With all due caveats that any journal ranking entails, very pleased to see the Indian Law Review setting a high benchmark of quality for Indian legal scholarship.

Prof Cane's new book challenges the use of US constitutional practice as the default comparator in constitutional studies. I have long criticised the distorting gravitational pull of US practice on our field. Look forward to reading & learning. bloomsbury.com/uk/distorting-…

Delighted to have my book on Indian constitutionalism in Hindi--co-authored with Surbhi--just published by Vani Prakashan. You can order it here: tinyurl.com/38jwd98p

New report documents how #Assam’s citizenship trials overseen by Foreigners’ Tribunals routinely violate due process, leaving thousands stateless. By Mohsin Alam Bhat, Arushi Gupta & Shardul Gopujkar of @NLSIUOfficial & Queen Mary University of London article-14.com/post/unmaking-…

Off to Brazil for the ICON•S annual conference. Some thoughts for first time attendees:

Monday 4th August, SOAS Gallery 5pm (In person only). This event is FREE to attend but please register by e-mailing [email protected] 📨

Today's reading suggestion: Meera Nanda's new book "Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism: The Wages of Unreason", telling the story of two strange bedfellows, the Postcolonial Left and the Hindu Right. taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

Delighted to be on this excellent plenary panel ICON•S 2025 Conference at the gorgeous Museu Nacional da República, Brasilia. I argued that the virtue of *verity* demands breaking the nexus of knowledge institutions not only with political power but also with economic power.

In Indian Law Review, I argue that the current crisis of institutional autonomy perpetuated by the UGC in Indian universities should be understood through the political elite’s instrumentalist idea of a university entrenched in the legal framework at the nation-state’s founding.

Anyone interested in academic freedom in India should read this excellent paper by my former student Siddharth Saxena:

An Excerpt from "हम भारत के लोग", co-authored with Surbhi Karwa . "हम भारत के लोग" का एक अंश, सुरभि करवा के साथ सह-लिखित। vaniprakashan.com/blogs/post/%E0…

#Constitutions are founding texts, forged through debate & discussion, outlining best practices for a nation. Tarun Khaitan LSE Law School discusses #India's Constitution, & arguments for change. blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2025… LSE Government LSE Human Rights pactproject

Civilising the Hindu Rashtra: Decoloniality’s Tryst with Nativist Palingenesis blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2025…

A timely response to decolonial constitutionalism.

What an excellent piece! Decolonization is often premised on a Manichean view of the “colonizer” and the “colonized”. Tarun Khaitan reveals a key intellectual flaw in decolonial thought from within, reminding us to think more deeply about improving conditions in the postcolony.

Comprehensive response to the so called "decolonial" constitutionalism

While I believe that the sentient hate crime is best not engaged with, Prof Tarun Khaitan takes him down with forensic precision.

In this paper, forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism, edited by Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman, and Mark Tushnet, I shed light on the nature and structure of authoritarianism in Africa. All comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…