Tarunabh Khaitan
Qualifications
BA LLB (Hons), BCL (distinction), MPhil (distinction), DPhil
Role or position
Penningtons Student in Law
E-mail address
Academic background
Tarun Khaitan is the Penningtons Student in Law at Christ Church and a Visiting Fellow at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He is also one of the faculty members on the Executive Committee of the Oxford Pro Bono Publico. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA LLB Hons) at the National Law School (Bangalore) between 1999-2004. He then came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed his postgraduate studies (BCL with distinction, MPhil with distinction, DPhil) at Exeter College. Before joining Christ Church, he has served as the Lecturer in Law at Queen's College and St Hilda’s College.
Tarun is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Autonomy, Dsicrimination and the Law'.
Undergraduate Teaching
Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Jurisprudence
Graduate Teaching
Comparative Equality Law (BCL & MJur); supervisor for Ms Farrah Ahmad (DPhil) and Mr Christopher McConnachie (MPhil)
Research Interests
Public law, human rights law, discrimination law, jurisprudence
Publications include
* (forthcoming) Dignity as an Expressive Norm: Neither Vacuous nor a Panacea (2012) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
* 'Reforming the Pre-Legislative Process' (2011) Economic and Political Weekly 27
* 'Reading Swaraj into Article 15: A New Deal for all Minorities' (2009) 2 NUJS Law Review 419
* 'Transcending Reservations: A Paradigm Shift in the Debate on Equality' (2008) Economic and Political Weekly 8
* 'Beyond Reasonableness: A Rigorous Standard of Review' (2008) 50 Journal of Indian Law Institute 177
Links
http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/tarunabh.khaitan