Madhav Khosla

Madhav Khosla is the B.R. Ambedkar Professor of Indian Constitutional Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he also directs the B.R. Ambedkar Program in Global Constitutionalism at Columbia Law School. His research focuses on the theory and practice of constitutions, with a particular emphasis on South Asia and India. Khosla is the author of India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy, named an Economist Best Book of the Year of 2020 and co-winner of the 2021 Order of the Coif Book Award, and co-editor of volumes, including Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law. 

His work has been cited by courts in India and Pakistan and has appeared in leading academic journals as well as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic. Before joining Columbia, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.