Rupavardhini Balakrishnan Raju, 'Constitutional Identity in the Times of Nationalism'

Rupavardhini Balakrishnan Raju, will present her paper 'Constitutional Identity in the Times of Nationalism'.

Rupavardhini Balakrishnan Raju is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL's Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism. She recently completed a DPhil in Law on nationalism, language, and constitutional identity at the University of Oxford. Her broad research interests lie in the intersection of public law and politics, federalism, constitutional democracy, the civil service, and accountability institutions. 

She was previously a Stipendiary Lecturer in Administrative Law at Trinity College, Oxford and has taught Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at various other colleges. She is the founding co-convenor of the Law and Democracy Network at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. 

She has worked as a civil servant in the Government of India, and was the Director of the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, India where she trained newly recruited civil servants.