Papers

The Unintended Consequences of Judicial Valiance, Law & Social Inquiry (2026), doi: 10.1017/lsi.2025.10122

Interpreting Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments, in Constitutional Interpretation (Sujit Choudhry, Catherine O’Regan & Carlos Bernal-Pulido eds., Edward Elgar, 2025) (with Yaniv Roznai) (link).

The Institutional Failings of India’s Chief Justice in the Age of Modi, 23 International Journal of Constitutional Law(I•CON) 160 (2025) (with Surbhi Karwa) (link).

Basic Structure as a Means for Judicial Self-Dealing or Self-Preservation? Placing Malaysia in the Broader Asian Context, in The Basic Structure Doctrine in Malaysia (Kevin Tan & H.P. Lee eds., Hart, 2025) (link).

The Precarious Position of Courts and Fundamental Rights in Indonesia’s Constitutional Democracy, 57 World Comparative Law/VRÜ 133 (2024) (link).

Economic and Social Rights in South Asia, in Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (Malcolm Langford & Katharine Young eds., Oxford University Press, 2024) (link).

South Asia, in Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Mathias Siems & Po Jen Yap eds., Cambridge University Press, 2024) (link).

Political Courts and Judicial Pushback: A Response to Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat, 2 Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (DPCE) Online 2219 (2023) (link).

Turbulent Democracies, in Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (Po Jen Yap & Rehan Abeyratne eds., Routledge 2023) (link).

Introduction: Parliaments in Asia, in Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (Po Jen Yap & Rehan Abeyratne eds., Routledge 2023) (with Po Jen Yap) (link).

Constitutional Dismemberments, Basic Structure Doctrine, and Pragmatic Justifications in Context: A Rejoinder, 20 International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) 905 (2022) (with Po Jen Yap) (link).

Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: The Latest Legal Iteration of a Political Crisis, 12(2) Journal of Indian Law and Society 104 (2021) (link). 

Global Constitutionalism Reconfigured Through a Regional Lens, 10 Global Constitutionalism 331 (2021) (link).

Judicial Review in Hong Kong, in Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China (Ngoc Son Bui, Stuart Hargreaves & Ryan Mitchell eds., Routledge, 2022) (link).

Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments as Constitutional Politics, in The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia (Rehan Abeyratne & Ngoc Son Bui eds., Routledge, 2021) (with Ngoc Son Bui) (link).

Basic Law, Hong Kong Bill of Rights and the ICCPR, in Law of the Hong Kong Constitution (3rd edition, Johannes Chan & C.L. Lim eds., Sweet & Maxwell, 2021) (with Dinusha Panditaratne). 

Introduction – Towering Judges: A Conceptual and Comparative Analysis, in Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Rehan Abeyratne & Iddo Porat eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021) (with Iddo Porat) (link).

PN Bhagwati and the Transformation of India’s Judiciary, in Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Rehan Abeyratne & Iddo Porat eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021) (link).

Judicial Self-Dealing and Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in South Asia, 19 International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) 127 (2021) (with Po Jen Yap) (link).

Book Review: Yvonne Tew, Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts (Oxford University Press 2020), 16 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 373 (2021) (link).

Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights in Neoliberal India, 29 Minnesota Journal of International Law 1 (2020) (link).

More Structure, More Deference: Proportionality in Hong Kong, in Proportionality in Asia (Po Jen Yap ed., Cambridge University Press, 2020) (link).

Uncertain Sovereignty: Ceylon as a Dominion 1948-72, 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) 1258 (2019) (link).

Ordinary Wrongs as Constitutional Rights: The Public Law Model of Torts in South Asia, 54 Texas International Law Journal 1 (2018) (link).

Privileging the Powerful: Religion and Constitutional Law in India, 13 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 307 (2018) (link).

Judicial Appointments in Sri Lanka: A Politicized Trajectory, in The Most Powerful Court in The World: Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India (Arghya Sengupta & Ritwika Sharma eds., Oxford University Press, 2018) (link).

Socioeconomic Rights, Human Dignity, and Constitutional Legitimacy in India, in Human Dignity in Context (Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer & Christoph Mollers eds., Nomos/Hart, 2018) (link).

Separation of Powers and the Potential for Constitutional Dialogue in India, 5(2) Journal of International and Comparative Law 363 (2018) (with Didon Misri) (link).

Upholding Judicial Supremacy in India: The NJAC Judgment in Comparative Perspective, 49 George Washington International Law Review 569 (2017) (link).

Giving Structure to the Basic Structure Doctrine, 1(2) Indian Law Review 182 (2017) (link).

Judicial Independence and the Rise of the Supreme Court in India, in Asia-Pacific Judiciaries: Independence, Impartiality and Integrity (H.P. Lee & Marilyn Pittard eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017) (link).

Al Maqaleh and the Diminishing Reach of Habeas Corpus, 95 Nebraska Law Review 146 (2016) (link).

Rethinking Judicial Independence in India and Sri Lanka, 10 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 99 (2015) (link). 

Asia as the Laboratory of the Superior Responsibility Doctrine, in Trials for International Crimes in Asia (Kirsten Sellars ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015) (link).

Centralising Authority: Executive Power in India and Sri Lanka, in Reforming Sri Lankan Presidentialism: Provenance, Problems and Prospects (Asanga Welikala ed., Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2015) (link).

How to Produce a More Effective Memorial or Written Submission, in Moot Courts & Mooting (Abhinandan Malik ed., Eastern Book Company, 2015). 

Insular and Inconsistent: India’s Naz Foundation Judgment in Comparative Perspective, 39 Yale Journal of International Law Online 74 (2014) (with Nilesh Sinha) (link).

Socioeconomic Rights in the Indian Constitution: Toward a Broader Conception of Legitimacy, 39 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 1 (2014) (link).

Domestic Violence Legislation in India: The Pitfalls of a Human Rights Approach to Gender Equality, 21 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 333 (2013) (with Dipika Jain) (link).

Superior Responsibility and the Principle of Legality at the ECCC, 44 George Washington International Law Review 39 (2012) (link).