Gautam Bhatia

Gautam Bhatia holds a BA/LLB degree from the National Law School of India University (2011), a BCL and MPhil from the University of Oxford (2012 - 2013) and an LLM from Yale Law School (2014). Since July 2014, he has been a practicing lawyer in New Delhi and has contributed drafting and research assistance in constitutional cases such as the criminal defamation challenge and the right to privacy hearing. He has taught constitutional law at the National Law School and the National University of Juridical Sciences. He has written one book, Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution (OUP 2015) and has contributed to The Oxford Handbook for the Indian Constitution, The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Global Constitutionalism, and The Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy among others. He also writes a blog on Indian constitutional law. Gautam Bhatia participated in the second Melbourne Forum 2017.