Shaurya Upadhyay
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.
“Remoteness and Foreseeability of Damages under Indian Law” in G Pachnanda SA and K Mahajan (eds), Damages, Expert Evidence and Valuation in Commercial Disputes in India (Thomson Reuters 2023) pp 65–79 (co-authored with G Pachnanda SA, V Srinivasan, A Sharma).
“Limitation of Liability Clauses” in G Pachnanda SA and K Mahajan (eds), Damages, Expert Evidence and Valuation in Commercial Disputes in India (Thomson Reuters 2023) pp 220–248 (co-authored with Justice Manmohan and K Mahajan).
“Issues Involving Expert Evidence in Arbitration and Indian Civil Procedure” in G Pachnanda SA and K Mahajan (eds), Damages, Expert Evidence and Valuation in Commercial Disputes in India (Thomson Reuters 2023) pp 329–343 (co-authored with K Mahajan, R Ahuja, T Karanjawala).
“Through the Looking Glass: Locating Litigation Privilege Under the Indian Evidence Code”, The International Journal of Evidence and Proof (Vol 29, Issue 3, 2024).
“Confidentiality in Investment Arbitration”, Jus Mundi (2020).
“The UK Supreme Court and International Commercial Arbitration” (with Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp), in A van Hooft and J Tossens (eds), Belgian Review of Arbitration (Issue 2, 2019) pp 501–521.
“To Extend or not to Extend – The New Indian Approach to Extension of Arbitration Agreements to Non-Signatories”, ICA Arbitration Quarterly (Vol 200, Jan–Mar 2019) pp 18–36.
“The Internet Never Forgets? – Locating the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ within the Indian Constitutional and Legal Framework”(co-authored with S U Lalit), Delhi Law Review (Vol V, 2016–17) pp 72–103.