Constitutional Law Personal Statement

The most important lesson I learned from my parents is to do something only if you really care about it and not because others want you to do it. Consequently, what drives my life is passion alone. Law is one such passion that I have carefully fostered in my life. My exposure to social science subjects like civics, democratic politics and history at my secondary school level is what primarily attracted me towards Indian legal and constitutional system. Moreover, my father being a leading constitutional lawyer, I was introduced to practical aspects of law in my childhood itself. In fact, my interactions with him about his cases gradually generated an academic curiosity within me specifically towards Constitutional Law even before I started my

My interactions with the Dean, Prof. I.P. Massey also considerably exposed me to other areas of general public law like administrative law. Interactions with such respectable professors in my first two years of law school not simply attracted me academically towards constitutional law; it also instilled a dream within me to become a professor of constitutional law in the future. It is at this stage that I conclusively understood that my interest in constitutional law had transformed into a passion.

Having learnt from professors and senior students that research and writing is the best way to learn a theoretical and doctrinal subject like constitutional law, I set out with an intention to solidify my dream. In the pursuit to advance my knowledge of Constitutional Law, I wrote more than 5 scholarly articles on issues that plagued India’s constitutional framework that got published in reputed national law journals. My paper titled ‘Judicial Activism in India: Is it against the Flow of Democracy?’ was selected as the only student-authored paper in the edited book titled ‘Democracy in India: Current Debates & Emerging Challenges (Primus Books, forthcoming). This achievement really motivated me and gave a boost to my self-confidence. Further, to ensure that my legal views are heard more