Justice Chandrachud, whose father, YV Chandrachud, was India’s longest serving Chief Justice, was born on November 11, 1959.
He graduated from Delhi’s St Stephen’s College in 1979 before completing his LL.B. from Delhi University in 1982 and LL.M. from Harvard University in 1983. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Juridicial Sciences (SJD) from Harvard in 1986.
Justice Chandrachud served as an Additional Solicitor General for India from 1998 to 2000. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1998 and appeared in several important cases involving public interest litigation, rights of bonded women workers, rights of HIV positive workers in the work place, contract labour and the rights of religious and linguistic minorities.
He was appointed by the Supreme Court to submit a report on the state of Bombay beaches. The judge taught International Law at Oklahoma University, USA in 1983 and was Visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at University of Bombay from 1988 to 1997. He was the paper setter and Chairman of the Board of Examiners for LL.M. examinations.
Source: Barandbench
