Ayan Gupta

I am currently reading for the DPhil in Law under the supervision of Carolyn Hoyle and Lucia Zedner. I read for the BCL before the DPhil, having obtained my undergraduate qualifications in India from the National Law University Delhi. My studies are funded by the Rhodes Scholarship.

My research examines the rise and use of ‘Life Imprisonment without Remission’ in India, hoping to understand what its evolution and use can tell us, more generally, about the manner in which states lay claim to the authority to punish. I am also currently interested in exploring the ‘publicness’ of criminal law, trying to uncover what is public about criminal law, if there anything particularly unique about criminal law's publicity. My interests generally include Criminal Law, Philosophy of Criminal Law, and Constitutional Theory.

I previously worked at Project 39A (now Square Circle Clinic, NALSAR) as an undergraduate Death Penalty Research Fellow. I also served as the Editor in Chief of the National Law University Delhi Journal of Legal Studies.