Dr. Raeesa Vakil studied law at the National Law School of India University, and
practised law for several years in Indian courts, including the Supreme Court of India.
She researched constitutional issues concerning local government at the Centre for
Policy Research in New Delhi before earning an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law
School, where her doctoral thesis analysed judicial review over Indian administrative
and regulatory tribunals. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal
Studies, National University of Singapore, and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of
Law, National University of Singapore, where she also taught constitutional and
administrative law. She has previously published on subjects including constitutional
court jurisdiction, regulation and the states, constitutional and statutory interpretation,
judicial review, and administrative adjudication in the International Journal of
Constitutional Law, Studies in Indian Politics, and the Oxford Handbook of the Indian
Constitution.