About Dr Gautam Bhatia

Dr Gautam Bhatia is a practicing lawyer at the Supreme Court of India, and a professor at the Jindal Global Law School. He read for the BCL, MPhil, and DPhil at the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and for the LLM at Yale Law School. 

As a practising constitutional lawyer, he has worked on significant cases involving civil rights, freedom of speech and expression, the federal structure, and the independence of fourth branch institutions, among other constitutional issues. 

As a legal scholar, his research focuses on comparative constitutional law, the theory and practice of horizontality, and law and political economy. His writing has been cited frequently by the Supreme Court of India, and he has twice served as amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of Kenya.

At UNSW, he intends to build on his existing work at the intersection of comparative constitutional law and the critique of political economy, while also developing a book project that examines key concepts of comparative constitutional law through a critical political economy lens.

I am delighted to be coming to UNSW as part of the inaugural cohort of Green Fellows. As a frequent visitor to the university, I have long been deeply impressed by the work done by the Faculty of Law and Justice, and their commitment to inclusive, open, and egalitarian scholarship. As a Martin Green Fellow, I hope to contribute to this wonderful tradition. 

– Dr Gautam Bhatia