Gaurav Mukherjee

Associate Professor of Law gamukher@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Gaurav Mukherjee joins the College of Law in Fall 2026 as an associate professor of law. He will teach Constitutional Law and other courses in public law, education law, and legal theory.

Mukherjee is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and the Stuart F. Smith Teaching Fellow at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He was previously 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.

Mukherjee’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law, law and religion, remedies, education law, and comparative constitutionalism. His work examines 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 recent article “Private Disestablishment”, forthcoming in the BYU Law Review, explores how governments facilitate religious governance in ostensibly secular spaces. He is also the author of “Anti-Democratic Harm in Constitutional Law”, forthcoming in the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and is the co-author of “The New Homelessness”, published in the California Law Review in 2025.

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 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” published in The Oxford Handbook on Economic and Social Rights (2025). 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 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.