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Ayan Gupta

Election Year: 2024

Election Constituency: India

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: India & New 2024

Ayan Gupta

Biography

Ayan is currently reading for the MPhil in Law. He completed his undergraduate qualifications in India from the National Law University Delhi, followed by the Bachelor in Civil Law at Oxford. His research examines the rise and use of ‘Life Imprisonment without Remission’ in India, hoping to understand what its evolution and use can tell us about the limits of the state’s power to punish. He is also currently working on exploring the ‘publicness’ of criminal law, trying to uncover what is public about criminal law.