Dr M. Mohsin Alam Bhat, BA LLB (Nalsar, India), LLM and JSD (Yale)Lecturer in LawEmail: m.bhat@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Mile EndProfileTeachingPublicationsSupervisionProfileMohsin Alam Bhat is a Lecturer in Law (Assistant Professor) at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in constitutional law and human rights. He is particularly interested in the study of minority rights, religious regulation and the law of democracy, from comparative, socio-legal and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Mohsin’s work has focused on several areas of contemporary interest at the intersection of law, religion and politics. His work on secularism interrogates the ways in which post-colonial dilemmas of national identity, state-formation and constitutional reform shape religious regulation. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the history of legal mobilisation for affirmative action among subordinated groups among India’s minority Muslims. The book draws from extensive field work among these vulnerable communities to show how the marginalised adopt equal and secular citizenship, and offers a dynamic picture of popular constitutional practices of ordinary citizens in Global South settings. Mohsin’s current research focuses on the threats to democracy, minority rights and the rule of law posed by authoritarian rule in democratic or quasi-democratic settings. He has also worked on democratic resilience, especially the role and potential of electoral commissions in India and comparable jurisdictions in protecting electoral integrity. Mohsin’s work emerges from a strong commitment in working and researching among marginalised communities. His work on minority rights—especially on hate crime, citizenship law, and housing discrimination—draws extensively from field research and legal clinical engagements in India. Mohsin also actively engages in non-universities spaces and collaborates extensively with non-academic colleagues. He is a co-founder of the legal aid initiative ‘Parichay’, which assists persons facing citizenship deprivation in India. He also serves on the editorial board of ‘Article-14’, a digital media platform covering civil liberties issues in India. Before joining Queen Mary, Mohsin taught at Jindal Global Law School (India) where he was the Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law and offered legal clinics on hate crime and statelessness. He is a visiting faculty at LLM in International & European Law programme at Faculté de Droit, Université Catholique de Lille. He read law at NALSAR University of Law (India) and received his LLM and JSD from Yale Law School.Undergraduate Teaching LAW4001 Public Law Postgraduate TeachingSOLM069 International Human Rights Law: Theory, History, PoliticsResearchPublicationsJournal Articles Conceptual experimentation through design in pedagogical contexts: lessons from an anti-hate crime project in India, 57(4) The Law Teacher 437 (2023) (co-authors Amanda Perry-Kessaris & Joanna Perry) ‘The Irregular’ and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India, Social and Legal Studies (accepted, forthcoming 2023). Available on SSRN. Authoritarianism in Indian State, Law and Society, 55 Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / World Comparative Law 460 (2022) (co-authors Mayur Suresh & Deepa Das Acevedo) 'Authoritarianism in Indian State, Law and Society' is also available on SSRN. Governing Democracy Outside the Law: India’s Election Commission and the Challenge of Accountability, 16 Asian Journal of Comparative Law (2021). Religious Freedom in Contest: Enforcing Religion Through Anti-Conversion Laws in India, 9 Journal of Law, Religion and State 178 (2021). 'Religious Freedom in Contest' is also available on SSRN. The Crime Vanishes: Mob Lynching, Hate Crime and Police Discretion in India, 11 Jindal Global Law Review (2020) (co-authors Vidisha Bajaj & Sanjana Kumar). Mob, Murder, Motivation: The Emergence of Hate Crimes Discourse in India, 16 Socio-Legal Review 76 (2020). The Constitutional Case against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 54(3) Economic and Political Weekly (2019). Available on SSRN. “Muslim Caste” under Indian Law: Between Uniformity, Autonomy and Equality, 20(4) Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica 165 (2017). '“Muslim Caste” under Indian Law' is also available on SSRN Constructing Secularism: Separating Religion and State under the Indian Constitution, 11 Australian Journal of Asian Law 29 (2010). 'Constructing Secularism' is also available on SSRN. Book Sections and Chapters Citizenship, in Cambridge Handbook to the Indian Constitution (Niraja Gopal, Aparna Chandra & Gautam Bhatia eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024). The Doubtful Citizen: Irregularization and Precarious Citizenship in India, in Statelessness in Asia (Michelle Foster, Jaclyn Neo & Christoph Sperfeldt eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). Between Trust and Democracy: The Election Commission of India and the Question of Constitutional Accountability, in Constitutional Resilience Beyond Courts: Views from South Asia (Swati Jhaveri, Tarunabh Khaitan & Dinesha Samararatne eds., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023). Available via SSRN. The Parliament and State Legislatures of India, in Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (Po Jen Yap & Rehan Abeyratne eds., Routledge, 2023) 178. Available via SSRN. Court as a Symbolic Resource: Indra Sawhney Case and the Dalit Muslim Mobilization, in A Qualified Hope: The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change (Gerald N. Rosenberg, Sudhir Krishnaswamy & Shishir Bail eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019). Available via SSRN. Equality in Secularism: Contemporary Debates on Social Stratification and the Indian Constitution, in Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges (J. Neo, A.A. Jamal & D.P.S. Goh eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019). Available via SSRN. Other Publications On the Verge: Revocation and Denial of Citizenship in India, in Revocation Of Citizenship: The New Policies of Conditional Membership (Emilien L. M. Fargues & Iseult Honohan eds., EUI RSC, 2021/23, Global Governance Programme-438, GLOBALCIT) (co-author Aashish Yadav). 'One the Verge' is also Available via SSRN. Twilight Citizenship, 729 Seminar Magazine (May 2020). Available via SSRN. Citizenship and the Mass Production of Statelessness in Assam, 4 India Exclusion Report 189 (Three Essays Collective & Centre for Equity Studies, 2020) (co-authors Harsh Mander & Abdul Kalam Azad). Available via SSRN. Securing Citizenship: India’s Legal Obligations towards Precarious Citizens and Stateless Persons (Center for Public Interest Law, Jindal Global Law School, 2020) (co-authors Aashish Yadav et al.). Purgatory in Kashmir: Violation of Juvenile Justice in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir (Yoda Press, 2019) (co-author Suroor Mander). Available via SSRN. Special Issue Editor Hate Crimes in India, 11 Jindal Global Law Review (2020). SupervisionMohsin welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in his research areas, particularly law and religion, minority rights, and democracy and authoritarianism.