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Professor & Associate Dean & Executive Director- Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence
B.S.L LL.B (ILS Pune);
B.C.L. (University of Oxford);
D.Phil (University of Oxford)
Prof. (Dr.) Swaminathan is Professor and Executive Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence at Jindal Global Law School. He got his undergraduate law degree from Indian Law Society, Pune before going on to read for B.C.L at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford; and D. Phil , at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a Clarendon Scholar. He has previously practised at the bar in the Bombay High Court, where he read in the chambers of Navroz Seervai, Senior Advocate. He works primarily in legal philosophy; and teaches Jurisprudence and Contract law. His papers have been published or are forthcoming in leading journals including Cambridge Law Journal, Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.
Prof. (Dr.) Swaminathan teaches Jurisprudence and Contract law. He has previously taught an elective, Genealogy of Central Doctrines of Indian Contract Law; and co-taught an elective, Common Law Mind.
Awards and Recognitions
Articles
‘Analogy Reversed’ Forthcoming in Cambridge Law Journal.
Book Review: ‘Legal Validity: The Fabric of Justice and A Short History of Legal Validity and Invalidity: Foundations of Private and Public Law’ (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal 203.
‘What the Centipede Knows: Polycentricity and Theory for Common Lawyers’ (2020) 40 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 265.
‘Contractual Unfairness: Another Way of Skinning the Cat’ (2019) 3 Indian Law Review 299.
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