Mr. Chandan Maheshwari

Assistant Professor (Law).
PhD Candidate, National Law University Delhi.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

UGC NET & Junior Research Fellow (Law). LL.M. (Constitutional Law), RGNUL-Punjab. B.A. LL.B. (Hons), Dr RMLNLU, Lucknow.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (Law) at Manipal University, Jaipur in 2020.
Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant at the Supreme Court of India with Hon’ble Mr Justice Uday U Lalit in 2018-19.
Legal Intern at the Supreme Court Commissioners Office in the Right to Food Case, and Human Rights Law Network, an NGO in 2015.

ACADEMIC OUTPUT

DOCTORAL THESIS

The Constitutional Dimensions of State Liability in Torts: A Jurisprudential Analysis.

PAPERS PUBLISHED

‘Amitabha Dasgupta’ on Product Liability, Unwarranted Remitting to Civil Court, and Lost Contents of Lockers, for International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice, Vol. 10 Article 9, 2022, pp. 157-64.
Dispute Resolution on Blockchain: An Opportunity to Increase Efficiency of Business Dispute Resolution?, by Shantanu Pachahara and Chandan Maheshwari, for Conflict Studies Quarterly, Issue 39, April 2022, pp. 63-80.
Tomorrow Sales v SBS Holdings: Delhi High Court’s rendezvous with third-party funding, by Chandan Maheshwari and Shantanu Pachahara, for Bar and Bench, 22^nd July, 2023.

PAPERS PRESENTED

Legal Personality for AI—Beyond Symbolic Recognition and its Effectiveness, for Two Day International Seminar on Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Constitutionalism and Rule of Law, 29-30^th March, 2024 @ UILS, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Post-Deprivation Due Process—A Constitutional Dimension of State Liability in Torts, for LDRN Research School, 17-18^th August, 2023 @ NLU-Delhi, New Delhi.
A Rejection of Legal Personhood for AI in Finding An Appropriate Liability Regime for Autonomous Machines, for II International Conference on Law and Technology: Moving Towards Digital Era, 3-4^th March, 2023 @ the NorthCap University, Gurugram.
Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya’s Concept of Historism, by Anurag Bhaskar and Chandan Maheshwari, for National Seminar in memory of the Founders of Socialist Movement in India, 23^rd-24^th October, 2013 @ the U.P. State Archives, Lucknow.
The Power of Tort Law and Understated Heroism in Dark Waters (2019), for 2^nd Article Writing Competition on Law and Film organised by Pro Bono India, March 2023.

GUEST LECTURES

Introduction to Judicial Clerkship at the Supreme Court of India, organised by Manipal University, Jaipur, on 20^th April, 2023.

AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST

Constitutional and Administrative Law, Torts, Jurisprudence, Property, Mental Health/Psychology, Legal Fiction.