Contributors

Jelena von Achenbach is Junior Professor of Public Law at the University of Giessen. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg and an LL.M. at New York University. Her Ph.D. thesis on the legislative procedure of the European Union was awarded the Science Prize of the German Federal Parliament in 2017. Her research focuses on constitutional law, democratic theory, and military integration in Europe. Aditi is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, . She completed a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata. Thereafter she pursued an LL.M. from SOAS, University of London, where she worked extensively on South Asian public laws and politics. Her research primarily focuses on constitutional law, election law, and grassroots governance. Pritam Baruah is Associate Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School. His research and teaching interests are legal philosophy and constitutional theory. His current research examines how constitutional courts employ moral and political values in decision making, and how abstract values can be justi- fiably employed as justifications by authorities. Pritam has previously taught at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and held visiting posts in China and Canada. His work on human dignity, privacy and legal theory has been published in international journals and edited volumes. He was Felix Scholar at the University of Oxford (BCL), and Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar at University College London. He has an undergraduate degree in law from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Jürgen Bast is Professor of Public Law and European Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, speaker of the interdisciplinary ‘Research Group Migration and Human Rights’ at this University, and Academic Director of the Refugee Law Clinic, a clinical education programme at Giessen law school. Earlier he was a Full Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Bast holds a Ph.D. in law and degrees at master level in law and sociology. His main research interests are in migration law, including

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Philipp Dann and Arun K. Thiruvengadam - 9781789901573 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/29/2021 01:29:02PM via free access Contributors vii refugee studies and citizenship studies, and European constitutional law, in particular the institutional law of the EU and studies of the future of economic governance and the welfare state in Europe. Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer and legal scholar, presently reading for the D. Phil at the University of Oxford. He practised law for four years in India, and is the author of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution (OUP 2015) and The Transformative Constitution (HarperCollins India 2019). His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of India, and by various Indian High Courts. Sigrid Boysen is Professor of Public law, European and Public International Law at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg. Before joining Helmut Schmidt University, she was Associate Professor at Free University Berlin. Her research focuses on the theory of international law, transnational resource law and constitutional law. Her recent publications include journal articles on global public goods and various chapters on constitutional rights. She is editor-in-chief of the international law review Archiv des Völkerrechts. Aparna Chandra is an Associate Professor of Law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her teaching and research focus on constitutional law, human rights, gender and the law and judicial process reform. Aparna has previously worked at the National Law University, Delhi, the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and as a Tutor in Law at the Yale Law School, USA. She holds a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from National Law School, Bangalore and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School. Emilios Christodoulidis holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. He is also Docent of the University of Helsinki. He is author of many articles on constitutional theory, democratic theory, critical legal theory, and transitional justice, and his book Law and Reflexive Politics won the European Award for Legal Theory in 1996 and the 1998 Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Prize for ‘Outstanding Legal Scholarship’. He is editor of the Critical Studies in Jurisprudence series (Routledge), and is one of the editors of Social & Legal Studies and of Law & Critique. His work has appeared in English, Greek, French, Japanese and Spanish. Philipp Dann holds the Chair of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin. He has published three monographs and several edited volumes in the areas of public international, European Union and constitu- tional law and its respective theory. He is the editor-in-chief of Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law, a quarterly journal on comparative constitutional law and the Global South. His main research interests concern

Philipp Dann and Arun K. Thiruvengadam - 9781789901573 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/29/2021 01:29:02PM via free access viii Democratic constitutionalism in India and the European Union the global encounter between South and North as reflected in constitutional, international and transnational law and its theory. Michaela Hailbronner is a Professor of Public Law and Human Rights at the University of Giessen. She completed two German law degrees at the University of Freiburg and the Kammergericht of Berlin before doing an LL.M. and a J.S.D. (doctorate) at Yale Law School (LL.M. 2010 and J.S.D. 2013). Her analysis of German constitutionalism against a broader compara- tive background appeared in a paper that won the I.CON Inaugural Best Paper Award 2014 and in her first book Traditions and Transformations: The Rise of German Constitutionalism (OUP 2015). Her more recent work has been in the field of comparative constitutional law and human rights, appearing inter alia in the American Journal of Comparative Law and the University of Toronto Law Journal. She is currently working on a new book project examining judi- cial responses to institutional failure in a range of domestic and international legal systems. Smarika Lulz is a Doctoral Researcher at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University Berlin. Having studied in India and Germany, she holds a dual degree in law and arts from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal and an LL.M. in European and European Legal Studies from Europa-Kolleg, University of Hamburg where her studies were funded by a DAAD schol- arship. In the past, she has worked with the Bangalore-based human rights collective, Alternative Law Forum on the political economy of net neutrality and of freedom of expression; and with the Centre for Internet and Society on questions of internet governance and policy. She has also concluded an inde- pendent short-term research project with The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, , on the politics of legal governance of social media (2015), and was a Visiting Lecturer at the Indian Institute for Journalism and New Media, Bangalore (2014–15). Michael Riegner is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. in law from Humboldt University, an LL.M. from New York University School of Law and studied law in Germany and Switzerland. He has published a monograph on international institutional law, a co-edited volume on comparative constitutional law in Southeast Europe, and articles on international and comparative law in the Yale Journal of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory, International Organizations Law Review and other journals. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law and is currently co-leading a multinational research project on contestations of liberal constitutionalism.

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Naveen Thayyil is an Associate Professor of Law and STS (Science and Technology Studies) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. After earning a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India, Bangalore, he practised public law at the Supreme Court of India. He was a Felix scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, earned his LL.M. degree at the University of London (jointly from School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London) and his Ph.D. at the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University. He is interested in how legal and technological trajectories and rationalities co-shape each other and constitute society. His publications include Law Technology and Public Contestations in Europe: Biotechnology Regulation and GMOs (Edward Elgar UK 2014) and ‘Science and Social Movements’, Oxford Bibliographies (OUP USA 2018). Arun K. Thiruvengadam is a Professor of Law at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University. He holds B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M. degrees from the National Law School, Bangalore, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the New York University School of Law. He currently teaches and researches on comparative constitutional law, Indian constitu- tional and administrative law, law and development, and welfare rights in India. He holds current visiting teaching positions at the Central European University, Budapest, the University of Zurich, and the City University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He is the author of The (Hart/Bloomsbury 2017). He is the general editor of the Indian Law Review (Taylor and Francis UK) and an editor on the boards of the journals, World Comparative Law (Nomos Germany) and the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (Cambridge UK). Uwe Volkmann holds the Chair of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. He studied law from 1981‒87 at the University of Marburg. Following his second state examination, he practised law as an attor- ney for four years. In 1992, he earned his Ph.D. in law, with a thesis on public funding of political parties. From 1994‒98, he served as academic assistant in Marburg, where he also completed his habilitation thesis on solidarity as a con- stitutional principle. In 1999, he was appointed Professor at the University of Mainz, from where he shifted to Frankfurt in 2015. Uwe Volkmann’s main research interests focus on constitutional theory, on fundamental rights and on various topics of democracy. In the last years he published, among others, Grundzüge einer Verfassungslehre der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (‘Features of Constitutional Theory in the Federal Republic of Germany’, Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2013), and a textbook of legal philosophy (C.H. Beck München 2018).

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