Professor Yuvraj Joshi Appointed as New Dean’s Research Scholar

Professor Yuvraj Joshi, shown here speaking at the 2024 Convocation, was appointed as a Dean’s Research Scholar.  

Professor Yuvraj Joshi, who joined the faculty in the fall of 2023 and teaches and writes on constitutional law and issues of equality, has been appointed as a new Dean’s Research Scholar.  

“Since joining our faculty last year, Yuvraj has cemented his reputation as one of the country’s most productive and innovative scholars of constitutional law,” President and Joseph Crea Dean David D. Meyer said. “He has published more than a dozen influential articles and chapters on equality and anti-discrimination law in some of the country’s most prominent journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal, and he has two additional pieces forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review and UCLA Law Review.” 

Joshi’s scholarship, which he has presented at numerous schools including UC Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, and Yale, has drawn strong national notice, including plaudits from the Association of American Law Schools.  This fall, Joshi co-chaired a prominent symposium at Northwestern University on “Racial Justice After SFFA v. Harvard.”   

In addition to his work as a scholar, Joshi has established himself as a passionate and innovative classroom teacher and a sought-out mentor to dozens of our students, Meyer added.  His Law and Inequality course next semester will introduce Brooklyn Law School students to a host of prominent equality scholars and a pathbreaking federal judge. His Constitutional Law course will feature litigators involved in Lawrence v. Texas, Obergefell v. Hodges, and SFFA v. Harvard. 

The Dean’s Research Scholar title was initiated in 2022 as a special form of faculty recognition and carries a three-year term. The appointments place Joshi among an esteemed group of faculty researchers that also includes Professor Robin Effron and Professor Alexis Hoag-Fordjour.