Kevin James
UCL Doctoral Student
Bio:
Kevin is a PhD student at UCL’s Faculty of Laws. His doctoral project looks at federalism through the lenses of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law and explores its normative potential in fostering more inclusive, plural, and resilient constitutional orders in diverse postcolonial settings such as South Asia. He hopes to contribute to the Centre’s focus on constitutional resilience by highlighting how norms associated with federalism interact with other values in plural democratic systems. He has an LLM degree from Harvard Law School (USA), where he received a Dean's Scholar Prize in American Legal History, and a BA LLB (Hons) degree from Hidayatullah National Law University (India), where he was awarded the University Gold Medal in Jurisprudence & Legal Method. Professionally, he has worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress and as a Research Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, two of India’s leading think tanks.
Representative publications:
Co-Author, ‘The Judicial Journey of Indian Federalism’ in Manisha Madhava (ed), Continuities and Discontinuities: Politics and Society in Contemporary India (Orient BlackSwan, forthcoming)
Co-Author, Hamin Ast? A Biography of Article 370 (Navi Books 2022) (link)
Co-Author, ‘Fiscal Federalism and Centrally Sponsored Schemes: Rethinking Article 282 of the Constitution’ Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, 2021 (link)