Gaurav Mukherjee 

Professor Gaurav Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Law. He teaches Constitutional Law and other courses in public law, law and religion, law and democracy, and legal theory. 

Mukherjee’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law, law and religion, remedies, education law, and comparative constitutional studies. His work focuses on how courts mediate conflicts over public goods such as housing and education, how constitutional law structures the boundary between public and private power, and how judicial remedies respond to democratic stress and institutional failure. His most recent article, Private Disestablishment, explored how governments facilitate religious governance in ostensibly secular spaces like K-12 education and healthcare services. His work has appeared in the California Law Review, BYU Law Review, International Journal of Constitutional Law, American Journal of International Law Unbound, South African Journal on Human Rights, Indian Law Review, the Oxford Handbook of Economic & Social Rights, and the Oxford Handbook on Comparative Human Rights. 

Mukherjee has held previous positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, a Hauser Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Law, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He has also held visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the University of Melbourne.

Mukherjee received the 2026 Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and South Asian Studies Scholarship Award for his chapter The Right to Education: Reconciling Liberty & Equality. He also won the Indian Law Review Early Career Prize in 2018. He serves as co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Social Rights, is assistant editor of the International Association of Constitutional Law Blog, and serves on the advisory committees of the Association of Law and Political Economy, Verfassungsblog, and the Social & Economic Rights Associates–Law & Society Association Grants Program. Mukherjee’s doctoral work received a Social & Economic Rights Associates–Law & Society Association Dissertation Grant, awarded for work that substantially advances the field of social and economic rights. He was also a Social Rights Research Fellow on the University of Stirling’s Nuffield Foundation-funded project on access to justice for social rights in the UK. 

Mukherjee earned an S.J.D., magna cum laude, and an LL.M. from Central European University in Vienna, and a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from NALSAR University of Law in India. Before entering academia, he worked as an associate at Trilegal LLP in Mumbai and later represented clients before the Supreme Court of India in education law and constitutional litigation. Mukherjee is admitted to the Bar in India.