Biography

Anshul Dalmia is a Lecturer at the Jindal Global Law School teaching Constitutional Law. He graduated in 2024 from the University of Oxford with the Bachelor of Civil Law degree as a KC Mahindra Scholar. He received the Oxford Law Faculty Prize for the course on 'Constitutionalism in Asia'. He has completed his undergraduate degree (BA LLB (Hons.)) from the WB National University of Juridical Sciences in 2022. He received the Professor Dr. Madhava Menon Gold Medal for securing Rank 1 in his cohort. Along with this, he received the University Gold Medals for securing the highest marks in Constitutional Law, Property Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, Family Law, Clinic I, and Clinic III. 

He has earlier worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Constitutional Law (Charkha) housed in the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, one of India’s premier independent think-tanks. He has undertaken non-commissioned projects surrounding the constitutional issues inflicting the impending delimitation of electoral constituencies. Moreover, he has advised various State governments and financial organizations on wide-ranging constitutional issues and policies. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Maharashtra and Delhi on identifying constitutional literature in regional languages to discern questions of constitutional accessibility. Prior to that he briefly worked with Khaitan & Co. as as Legal Associate in the General Corporate team, working on mergers, acquisitions, and conducting due diligence inquiries. 

He has received the Hansell Travel Grant and the Alice Horseman Scholarship from Somerville College, Oxford to pursue independent constitutional research projects. He has worked closely with the Oxford Pro Bono Publico, on research inquiries on global constitutional practices and cases. He was a part of the editorial boards of NUJS Law Review, Journal of Indian Law and Society, and the Indian Constitutional Law Review. He has around 50 publications (including book chapters, journal articles, blog-posts and newspaper opinion pieces) in several well-known international and national reviews, to his credit. He has published widely on public law, including on forums such as Constitutional Law and Philosophy Blog, Law and Other Things, Indian Constitutional Law Review, Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Journal, and Oxford Human Rights Hub. He has also taught as a guest lecturer and acted as external examiners for various law universities across India. He is extremely interested in studying public law and constitutional theory, examining the workings of judicial bodies, and deciphering global constitutional practices.