[Ed Note: As part of our blog round-table book discussion on Arvind Elangovan’s book Norms & Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau in the Making of the Indian Constitution, 1935-50, this is the last...
Arudra Burra
Arudra Burra is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IITD. He joined the department in December 2012, after post-doctoral fellowships at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and the Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr Burra holds a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University Arudra's primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy, as well as the philosophy of law. He also works in the area of legal history, studying the ways in which laws and legal institutions are able to survive drastic changes in the political regimes that support them. His recent publications include- Civil Liberties in the Early Constitution: the CrossRoads and Organiser cases In Satvinder Juss, ed. Human Rights in India (Routledge, 2019).