Yuvraj Joshi

Biography

Professor Joshi is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches and writes on constitutional law and issues of equality.

Prior to joining Brooklyn Law School, Professor Joshi taught at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law. His career experience includes extensive work in human rights research and advocacy, including with Human Rights Watch and Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund. He practiced with Linklaters LLP in London, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt.

Professor Joshi’s research is in the areas of constitutional and comparative law, racial equality law, gender and sexuality law, and human rights. His scholarship has appeared in the California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the UCLA Law Review, among other journals.

His work has received recognition across scholarly, legal, and public spheres. His scholarship has been honored by the Association of American Law Schools, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, and the Law and Society Association, and has been cited by courts, legislatures, and international agencies. His public writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Slate, and his research has been translated into Chinese. He has held fellowships and affiliations at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, and Yale, and he regularly speaks on equality issues in the United States and internationally.

In addition to teaching first-year Constitutional Law, Professor Joshi developed the Law and Inequality and Comparative Constitutional Law courses at Brooklyn, which bring judges and scholars from around the world into the classroom. In 2026, Brooklyn Law students named him Professor of the Year.