Mr R.V.K. Dandamudi

Raja Dandamudi is a PhD candidate and Cambridge International Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. His PhD research seeks to develop a conceptual and historical account of the development of constitutionalism in late colonial India (1857-1947).

Raja read for a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) at Jindal Global Law School, India from 2014 to 2019. During law school, Raja worked as a human rights researcher (including as a research associate at the Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University, Delhi) and taught modules on constitutional law to undergraduate law students. Following his graduation, he went on to work as a Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant to Justice L. Nageswara Rao, then a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and worked on a variety of cases involving constitutional, human rights, administrative and labour laws. After the clerkship, Raja completed his LLM in Legal Theory at the New York University School of Law as a Dean's Graduate Award Scholar, where he wrote a dissertation conceptualising the dignity of labour under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy Waldron. During his time at NYU, Raja also worked as a graduate research assistant to Prof. Philip Alston, which involved working in the fields of the anthropology of human rights, social welfare laws, and law and political economy.