Shaurya Upadhyay

DPhil in Law

Biography

Shaurya Upadhyay is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Andrew Higgins. His doctoral research focuses on public interest immunity and closed material proceedings in England and India. At Oxford, he teaches Contract Law at St. Hilda's College, is a Junior Dean at Wadham College, and is affiliated with the Institute of European and Comparative Law. Shaurya has worked as a Research Assistant to Professor Sandy Steel on the Foundations of State Liability in Private Law Project and to Professor Andrew Higgins on the Civil Justice in the 21st Century project. He has also spent time as a research visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt under the supervision of Professor Stefan Vogenauer. 

Prior to Oxford, Shaurya was Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Dean (Research) at the Jindal Global Law School where he taught courses on International Commercial Arbitration, Commercial Contract Law, and Trial Advocacy. He has trained with international disputes and arbitration groups of Debevoise & Plimpton and WilmerHale in London, and has been a visiting associate with Kleinheisterkamp Arbitration in Brussels since 2020. Shaurya holds a Masters in Law from the London School of Economics as a Tata Scholar and Bachelors degrees in Law and History (hons) from the University of Delhi.

Research Interests

  Civil Procedure, evidence law, international arbitration, dispute resolution, contract law.