Biography

Sidharth Chauhan is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University. He is the Director of the Cyril Shroff Centre for AI, Law and Regulation. He also serves as Program Director for several postgraduate programmes at JGLS.

He read law at Harvard Law School (LL.M.), where he focused on corporate, antitrust, and technology law. While at Harvard, he received the Dean's Award and worked as a Research Assistant at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He completed his first law degree (B.L.S., LL.B.) with First Class Honours from Government Law College, Mumbai. 

Before joining academia, Sidharth worked in the corporate law practice of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. and the competition law practice of WilmerHale, gaining experience in leading corporate transactions and complex global antitrust matters.

Sidharth has taught short-term courses at several leading international institutions. He was a Visiting Scholar at Singapore Management University in January 2026. He also taught a course on Indian Competition Law in the Digital Economy, with a comparative focus on the European Union and India, at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, under the Erasmus+ Scholar Programme. In 2025, he served as a Board Member of the Indian chapter of the George Washington Competition & Innovation Lab, a research institution focused on market innovation and competition.

At JGLS, Sidharth teaches corporate law, competition law, merger control, and technology regulation. His teaching is strongly practice-oriented, with a focus on bridging the gap between legal education and contemporary corporate legal practice. His research lies at the intersection of corporate governance, competition and antitrust law, merger control, digital markets, data-driven acquisitions, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.

As Director of the Cyril Shroff Centre for AI, Law and Regulation, Sidharth works on questions at the intersection of technology, law, and public policy, with a particular focus on AI governance, digital regulation and emerging regulatory frameworks. He has contributed to academic and policy discussions on AI governance and digital markets and has been involved in interdisciplinary and international initiatives concerning the regulation of emerging technologies.