Biography
Shaurya Upadhyay is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Andrew Higgins. His doctoral research examines public interest immunity and closed material proceedings in England and India. He is affiliated with the Institute of European and Comparative Law.
At the Faculty of Law, he assists Professor Higgins in delivering the FHS Civil Dispute Resolution course, and teaches Contract Law at Hilda’s. Shaurya has served as a Research Assistant to Professor Sandy Steel on the Foundations of State Liability in Private Law project and to Professor Andrew Higgins on the Civil Justice in the 21st Century project. He has also been a research visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, under the supervision of Professor Stefan Vogenauer.
Before coming to Oxford, Shaurya was Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Dean (Research) at Jindal Global Law School, where he taught International Commercial Arbitration, Commercial Contract Law, and Trial Advocacy. He has trained with the international disputes and arbitration groups at Debevoise & Plimpton and WilmerHale in London, and has been a visiting associate with Kleinheisterkamp Arbitration in Brussels since 2020. He holds an LLM from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Tata Scholar, and BA degrees in Law and History (Hons) from the University of Delhi.
Positions
- Lecturer in Law (Contract)
Subjects
- Law
