Anmol Jain

Academic Year: 
2023-24
Direction: 
From Yale
Exchange Partners: 
University of Melbourne
Project Title: 
Reforming Political Parties: Developing Mechanisms for Strategic Democratisation

Anmol Jain is a lawyer by training and holds an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School and a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from National Law University, Jodhpur (India). His research interests revolve around constitutional governance, institutional design, democratic backsliding, and party systems. He has written extensively on the Indian legislative bodies and how, as a consequence of partisanship, they have failed to check the overshadowing influence of the ruling executive. His works have appeared in a Routledge Handbook and leading journals like the Indian Law Review. He also regularly contributes to online discussion forms and has published several short pieces on blogs like Verfassungsblog, IACL-AIDC blog, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law blog. Before coming to Yale, he worked as a policy lawyer in India. He assisted the central Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in exploring constitutionally feasible ways of developing policies and laws about online content moderation, e-commerce regulation, online gaming, and digital antitrust.