Anurag Bhaskar

Anurag Bhaskar is a legal scholar whose work spans constitutional law, social justice, access to justice, and court administration. He is also Affiliate Faculty at the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. He previously served as Additional Registrar and Director of the Centre for Research and Planning at the Supreme Court of India. At NALSAR, he also oversees the activities of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair on Constitutional Law & Social Inclusion. Previously, he taught at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat.

He has held research fellowships at Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford and has presented his research at Melbourne Law School. A recipient of the Bluestone Rising Scholar Award from Brandeis University, his scholarship has been cited in three judgments of the Supreme Court of India. He is a co-founder of the Community for the Eradication of Discrimination in Education and Employment (CEDE), which has arranged more than 500 internships for law students from marginalized communities since 2021.

Bhaskar is the author of The Foresighted Ambedkar: Ideas That Shaped Indian Constitutional Discourse (Penguin, 2024), which was among the final recommendations for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2025 and on the final shortlist for the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards 2025 in the English Debut category. He is also co-editor of Justice for the Nation: Reflections on 75 Years of the Supreme Court of India (Thomson Reuters, 2024).

Bhaskar is Associate Editor for Law of CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion. He previously served as an Associate Editor of Indian Law Review and has reviewed articles for several academic journals. His opinion pieces have appeared in The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Wire, Scroll, ThePrint and LiveLaw. He has delivered guest lectures at institutions including the University of Melbourne, IIT Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University and several law universities. He also submitted an expert opinion on Indian law concerning reciprocity and locus standi in Teja Ravi v. United States, which the United States Court of Federal Claims relied upon in its March 2022 judgment. His work has been quoted in newspapers and magazines.

Education

Select Publications

• “Education”, in Niraja Jayal et al, Cambridge Companion to the Indian Constitution (forthcoming)
• “The Social Life of Free Speech: Who Gets to Speak?”, NLSIR, Vol 36(2).
• “Reservation as a Fundamental Right: Interpretation of Article 16(4) of the Indian Constitution”, Indian Journal of Constitutional Law (Oct. 2021), Vol. 10.
• “‘Ambedkar’s Constitution’: A Radical Phenomenon in Anti-Caste Discourse?”, Caste: A Journal of Social Exclusion, Brandeis University, April 2021, Vol. 2(1), pp. 109-131.
• “The Myth of Collective Conscience: Revisiting Death Penalty in India”, Economic & Political Weekly, 55, Issue No. 15 (11 April 2020).