Satya Prasoon is an Assistant Professor of Law at the NALSAR University of Law. His interests and work lie at the intersection of constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism.
Prasoon’s current writings and research focus on the affective dimensions of constitution-making, the theory of religious minority rights in the constitution, discrimination and structural injustice in democracy, and belief systems and national identity formation through the institutional lens of the Supreme Court in India.
His latest essay – ‘A Tragic Photograph: Emotional Journey of a Political Spectator’ due for publication in Polemos questions the inattention to cognitive emotions by examining a photograph of lynching to argue for seeing emotions as evaluative judgments in addition to being political, which shapes the political belief system of our polity.
His writings have regularly appeared in a wide variety of popular media, including The Caravan, Deccan Herald, Scroll.in, The Print, and The Wire. He has presented at national and international conferences, and his most recent presentations were at the Critical Legal Studies Conference 2024: Speculation(s) at Lund University, Sweden, and the 10th Asian Constitutional Law Forum (ACLF) at the University of Hong Kong, China.
Prasoon teaches core courses on Constitutional Law I & II and elective courses titled ‘Supreme Court in Search of a Nation: A Guide to Rights Protection in India’ and ‘Religious Freedom For Minority Religions and Denominations in India’.
He holds an LL.M. from the University of Melbourne, where he was an Alex Chernov Scholar, and a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS).
As an undergraduate, he served as an Editor of the Journal of Indian Law and Society (JILS), an Associate Editor of the NUJS Law Review, and the Convenor of the Constitutional Law Society (CLS).
Before coming to NALSAR University of Law, he was an Assistant Professor of Public Law at BML Munjal University (2021-2024) and an Associate Editor with the Supreme Court Observer at Centre for Law and Policy Research (2017-2019)