About Us

Sudhir is a co-founder and trustee of CLPR. He is currently the Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India University(NLSIU), Bengaluru. Previously he was a professor at the Azim Premji University. He was also the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Visiting Professor of Indian Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School. He graduated from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore (B.A. LL.B). He read the BCL and obtained a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He has been a Teaching Fellow in Law at the Pembroke College at Oxford University, an Assistant Professor at NLSIU and a Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

In the past, Sudhir has also worked in the Prime Minister’s Committee on Infrastructure and the Kasturirangan Committee on Governance of Bangalore. He has authored a book titled ‘Democracy and Constitutionalism in India’ which was published by the Oxford University Press in 2009. His main areas of interest are constitutional law, legal education, legal theory, intellectual property law and administrative law.

Vineeth graduated with a B.A. from St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Bangalore. He completed his MA in Development (Law and Governance) at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Vineeth is interested in studying Indian constitutionalism through the lens of political theory and intellectual history.

Varsha graduated with a Masters in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2017 and subsequently, completed her MPhil from the University of Hyderabad. She was previously a Sahapedia-UNESCO Research Fellow. Her research interests lie in the intersections of religion and politics.

Siddharth graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2017, and went on to complete his Master’s degree in Modern Indian History from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2022. As part of the Constitutional Culture team at CLPR, his work focusses on the historical background of the Constitution-making process. Siddharth is further interested in the politics of decolonisation and the histories of identity formation.