Gaurav Mukherjee

Last fall, the editors of the Harvard Law Review invited me to write the Foreword for this year's Supreme Court issue.

My working draft is below, and comments are most welcome.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I just posted a new paper on @ssrn.bsky.social, titled "The Chadha Presidency". Here's the link, and I'll post the abstract in the next post. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

... by GAURAV MUKHERJEE (@gauravmkjee.bsky.social) on the Right to Education and by Tom Gerald Daly (@democracytalk.bsky.social) on Scholarship!

Cover of the Verfassungsbook "Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024". The Cover is based an map created by Arun Ganesh.

Publication day! 💫

Our Verfassungsbook “Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024”, edited by ANMOL JAIN (@anmoljain-law.bsky.social) and TANJA HERKLOTZ (@tanjaherklotz.bsky.social) is now available in print and online! 📚

Check it out now! verfassungsblog.de/books/

Congratulations, David!

The recent history and future prospects of the UK welfare state Abstract. This article examines how the UK welfare state was significantly retrenched, reshaped, and selectively expanded in the era of austerity and Covid

New piece on the UK welfare state by me & @gavin-kelly.bsky.social for a special edition of @oxrepjournal.bsky.social We examine the economic, political & demographic forces reshaping our welfare state. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

A Terrible Idea Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

Erwin Chemerinsky on a little-noticed provision in the proposed spending bill that would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders

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An equally divided Supreme Court keeps in place the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the establishment of the nation's first religious charter school. A significant victory for the separation of church and state!

Wrote this thing in which I look backwards to the 1850s to try to explain why the very worst stuff that's happening should make us outraged, but also that outrage and optimism are closer cousins than you might expect.

Come work with me!
@nyulaw.bsky.social is hiring a clinical teaching fellow!

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 is a judgment that has triggered great public discussion about the position of trans people in Great Britain (for an interesting discussion of…

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/06/c...

Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an All-Out Assault on the Voting Rights Act. Now It’s Here. One hopes that a Supreme Court majority would reject this attempt to shut down the Voting Rights Act.

A great piece by Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social about how SCOTUS enabled/emboldened the lower courts assault on voting rights, the Voting Rights Act, and the enforcement of civil rights laws: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Coming up this afternoon - join us online for what looks set to be a great discussion!

📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC!

Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history.

Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15
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This is one of the best tributes to Justice Souter I've read, in part because it quotes at length from Justice Souter's own account of the processes of judging.

Congratulations, Jacob!

The New Homelessness is now out in print. Thanks to the hardworking editors at @califlrev.bsky.social and everyone who commented on previous drafts!

Keeping a keen eye out for this!

Gaurav Mukherjee on the stakes of today's argument:

"This case reflects the culmination of 'private disestablishment'— a legal phenomenon where entities that operate at the blurred boundary between public and private recast themselves as entirely private actors while performing public functions."

10/10. No notes.

America’s First Religious Public School? This past Friday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that concerns the first religious charter school in the United States. But this case is not merely about school choice or religious freedom…

With SCOTUS hearing arguments tomorrow in the St. Isidore case on the constitutionality of religious charter schools, re-plugging my earlier @lpeblog.bsky.social piece on the stakes in the case.

Longer article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

lpeproject.org/blog/america...

Enforcing the Law of Democracy

Sharp new piece on viewing the Marine Le Pen disqualification case through the lens of militant democracy by
@eleonorabottini.bsky.social & Camille Aynès verfassungsblog.de/marine-le-pe...

Help me share this opportunity!

The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.

Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

Delighted to see @esranuki.bsky.social on Bluesky! A must-follow for #eonomic and #socialrights fans and now added to this starter pack on #ESR!
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New DPUL Exhibit: Guatemala Atrocity Trials Princeton University Library (PUL) has published a new digital archive that documents the ground-breaking atrocity trials that occurred in Guatemala’s domestic courts after that country’s 36-year arme...

It’s hard to describe what it means to me to see this archive go live at Princeton. It is the culmination of two decades of research starting with my first research grant as an undergrad.

library.princeton.edu/about/librar...

Abstractb for 'Private Disestablishment'

Delighted that 'Private Disestablishment' is now forthcoming at the BYU Law Review. Looking forward to working with the editors!

SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On what's at stake with religious charter schools, see Linda Greenhouse in the NYT yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

I am excited to share that Yuvraj Joshi’s and my new article entitled “Infrastructure Equality” will be published in the Northwestern University Law Review. You can read a draft on SSRN.

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I'm thrilled to share that Every Court Everywhere All at Once--my essay on last summer's weirdest admin decision, Ohio v. EPA--is now forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal Forum. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Great seeing you, Rick; hope our paths cross again soon!