Thiruvengadam, Arun Kumar
Professor of Law
National University of Singapore

Arun Thiruvengadam is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches courses on constitutional and administrative law in Singapore, as well as a seminar on contemporary legal issues in India .

He obtained his formal legal education from the National Law School, Bangalore (B.A., LL.B (Hons.), 1995; LL.M, 2001) and New York University School (NYU) of Law (LL.M, 2002, J.S.D., 2007).

He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice A.M. Ahmadi at the Supreme Court of India and later practiced for two years in the fields of administrative, constitutional and commercial law before the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. He has been a Research and Teaching Fellow at the National Law School (1999-2001), and at the Global Public Service Law Project at NYU School of Law (2003-05).

In recent years, he has delivered academic papers at conferences at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, the Faculty of Law, Hong Kong University and the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia. In 2007, he taught intensive courses on Indian constitutionalism and constitutional theory at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and presented papers based on his doctoral thesis at Faculty workshops at both institutions.

His published articles have appeared in the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the Chinese Journal of International Law.

His research and teaching interests are in the areas of comparative constitutional law and theory, Indian constitutional and administrative law, comparative public interest law, law and development, and legal education.