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F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 22, 2026 • 3 min read

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BirthplaceMumbai, Maharashtra, India

ProfessionLawyer; Author; Legal Scholar

NationalityIndian

Marital statusMarried

SpouseAparna

FamilyFather - D. Y. Chandrachud; Mother - Rashmi Chandrachud (deceased); Stepmother - Kalpana Das; Brother - Chintan Chandrachud; Foster sisters - Mahi and Priyanka

Abhinav Chandrachud Biography

Abhinav Chandrachud is an Indian lawyer, author and legal scholar from Mumbai. Trained at Government Law College, Harvard and Stanford, he has worked in顶国内

Early life and background

Abhinav Chandrachud was born and raised in Mumbai into a family with a long legal pedigree. His father is D. Y. Chandrachud, and his maternal lineage includes Y. V. Chandrachud, who served as India’s 16th Chief Justice. He grew up in an environment shaped by the law and pursued formal legal education in Mumbai and abroad.

Education

Chandrachud completed his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at Government Law College (GLC), Mumbai, studying there from 2003 to 2008. He went on to earn a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School in 2008–2009 and later obtained a Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.) from Stanford Law School in 2011–2012. During his student years he received academic recognition at GLC and was awarded a full Commonwealth scholarship for the BCL program at Oxford University, a scholarship he ultimately did not use because he chose to attend Harvard.

Early legal work

While still a student, Chandrachud gained practical experience in Mumbai. From 2005 to 2008 he worked as a paralegal (student associate) at AZB & Partners. In 2006 he served as a trainee law clerk under the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. He also contributed as a research assistant to the Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reform under the Planning Commission between 2007 and 2008.

Professional career

After completing his LL.M., Chandrachud joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and worked as an associate attorney in their Los Angeles and Singapore offices from 2009 to 2011. He was admitted to the State Bar of New York in 2010 and became a member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in 2008. In September 2013 he joined Stanford Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession as a research assistant.

Academic and writing work

Chandrachud has combined practice with scholarship and teaching. He authored the book Due Process of Law in 2011 and has been a contributor to the blog Law and Other Things. In November 2013 he presented a doctoral dissertation titled An Independent, Colonial Judiciary. He has taught as a visiting professor, delivering a two-credit seminar on the history of India’s legal profession at NALSAR University of Law in the winter of 2014, and he has guest lectured at Government Law College in Mumbai.

Several of his books have been published by major presses. In 2014 Oxford University Press (Delhi) published The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria for Selecting and Appointing Judges to the Supreme Court of India. Subsequent works include Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (2017), Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980–1989 (2018), and These Seats Are Reserved: Caste, Quotas, and the Constitution of India (2023).

Public profile

Chandrachud continues to appear in high-profile legal matters. On 18 February 2025 he represented content creator Ranveer Allahbadia before the Supreme Court of India in a case involving multiple FIRs. During the hearing he argued against arrest on the basis that multiple FIRs arising from the same remarks would make arrest unjust, and he maintained that offensive language by itself did not always amount to a crime. Chandrachud is fluent in Hindi and Marathi and has a basic knowledge of French.

Personal life

Abhinav Chandrachud is married to Aparna and the couple have two children. His mother, Rashmi Chandrachud, who was also a lawyer, passed away in 2007. He has a brother, Chintan Chandrachud, who is an advocate, and two foster sisters named Mahi and Priyanka, who are described as differently-abled. His stepmother is Kalpana Das, also a lawyer.

Latest updates

In early 2025 Chandrachud remained active both in litigation and public legal debate, continuing to represent clients before India’s highest court and publishing work on constitutional and legal questions in India.

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Recent Work

These Seats Are Reserved: Caste, Quotas, and the Constitution of India

Book on caste, reservation and constitutional law in India

2023
Representation of Ranveer Allahbadia in Supreme Court

Argued in the Supreme Court on 18 February 2025 against arrest in connection with multiple FIRs over controversial remarks

2025
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Career Highlights

  1. LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai (2003–2008)
  2. LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2008–2009)
  3. J.S.M. from Stanford Law School (2011–2012)
  4. Associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (2009–2011)
  5. Author of multiple books on Indian constitutional and legal issues
  6. Research assistant at Stanford Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession (2013)
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