Professor Jayanth K. Krishnan
Bloomington, IN
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law
Ohio State University, B.A.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D.
Ohio State University College of Law, JD
Jayanth Krishnan is the Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the director of the Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. He teaches courses on property, the legal profession/legal ethics, comparative law, and immigration. In 2015, he received the Law School's highest teaching honor, the Leon Wallace Teaching Award, and in 2012, he earned the Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award. He was named director of Indiana Law's Center on the Global Legal Profession in 2014.
Krishnan is a socio-legal researcher who focuses on the legal profession, law and globalization, access to justice, and legal education. Much of his work has examined how these areas intersect in India, but he has also written on the ways these issues operate in places such as Anglophonic Africa, Brazil, the Middle East, and other parts of Asia. His work has appeared in both highly reputed law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and in academic press books.
