Kushagr Bakshi 

Kushagr Bakshi joins Tulane Law as a Murphy Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. He is currently completing his S.J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also received his LLM. He holds a B.A. and LL.B. from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.

Bakshi's research and scholarship focuses on constitutional law, comparative law, and international law. He is currently interested in theories of transformative constitutionalism and structural themes in constitutional law. His previous work has focused on Indian federalism, equal rights for gender and sexual minorities and statelessness and detention. 

He comes to Tulane with experience as a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, a lecturer at Jindal Global Law School and a transactions associate at a major law firm in India.