Majumdar, Abhik

Biography

Abhik gained his first degree in law from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. He followed it with a thesis-track LLM from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he did research in jurisprudence and legal theory. He has also worked extensively on areas like constitutional law, intellectual property and international trade law. Prior to joining NUS, he was associated with several research bodies, NGOs, law firms, and even a music archive as legal officer for a project partnered with the Smithsonian Institution.Abhik’s main research interests relate to jurisprudence and legal theory. His LLM dissertation explored the capacity of positivistic accounts to generate comprehensive accounts of legal phenomena. Abhik has also worked on other aspects of jurisprudence, such as the relationship between rights and teleology, and the validity of Hohfeldian matrices.Abhik’s involvement with non-theoretical aspects of law extends to constitutional law, administrative law, law and religion, and cyber-law. He is presently conducting research in several areas including law and AI, personal laws, and sedition. In the past, his involvement extended to the right to die, the theory of terrorism law, and WTO law.Law and legal theory aside, Abhik also admits to a deep involvement with Indian classical music. His publications on the topic include Bhimsen Joshi: A Passion for Music (Rupa & Co., 2004) and numerous book and concert reviews

Research Interest

Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Cyber-Law, Human Rights, Law and Religion