Mr Zaid Deva

BA LLB (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, India
LLM, SOAS University of London
MPhil in Law, University of Oxford

I am a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law, where my doctoral thesis examines federal imaginaries of the state and sovereignty in the Indian constitution-making project. Prior to commencing my DPhil, I practised before the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, having previously completed an LLM at the SOAS University of London, and an MPhil in Law at Oxford. During my DPhil, I have served as a Lecturer at Trinity College and currently I am a Research Officer with the Oxford Pro Bono Publico.

I will be teaching EU law and Administrative law to undergraduate law students.

My research focuses on the law and politics of constitution-making in postcolonial contexts. I specialise in constitutional law and theory, with research interests in public law, international law, legal history, and political theory.

'Article 370' in Niraja Jayal, Aparna Chandra, and Gautam Bhatia (eds), Cambridge Companion to the Indian Constitution (Cambridge University Press 2026) [forthcoming]

“The tyranny of the singular”: In Re Article 370 and the problem of Indian constitutional history, Vol. 10(1) Indian Law Review 89-105 (2026)

‘Justifying Privacy: The Indian Supreme Court’s Comparative Analysis’ in M. P. Singh and Niraj Kumar (eds), The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2018 (Springer Press 2019).

‘Article 370 judgment is a case of constitutional monism’ (The Hindu, 14 December 2023)