SURESH Sabarish
Dr. Sabarish Suresh completed his JSD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, where he wrote a thesis on the partition of India and its affect on the making of the Indian Constitution. At NUS Law, he is working on British colonial cartography and its relationship to the development and expansion of the English Common Law in the Indian subcontinent.
Education
JSD, LLM in Comparative Legal Thought (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law); BBA. LLB (H) (Jindal Global Law School)
Current Courses
Criminal Law (G)
Criminal Law (H)
Dr. Sabarish Suresh’s doctoral thesis, ‘The Unconscious of the Indian Constitution: Traumatic Histories and Repetitions’, which used a psychoanalytic methodology to examine the role of the partition in the making of the Indian Constitution, won the prestigious 2023 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award, annually awarded by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (LCH) to most promising interdisciplinary dissertations on law. The thesis was also awarded the Jacob Burns Medal by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Sabarish has previously taught courses on psychoanalysis and law as a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Sabarish is currently working on a research project which examines how the cartographic operations of the British East India Company and subsequently the British Crown enabled the inauguration of British sovereignty and English Common Law in the Indian subcontinent. By studying colonial maps, memorandums, memoirs, rules, and regulations, the research aims to unearth the ways in which colonial maps played a critical role in the depiction of a continuous and uninterrupted possession of territory, which paved the way for legal claims of ownership and sovereignty. In addition to the project on cartography, Sabarish is also working on a book, titled The Trauma of the Indian Constitution: Partition and Repetition, forthcoming with the Edinburgh University Press. By closely examining the cartographic precursor to the making of the Constitution, the pictorial figures in the original ratified copy of the Constitution, and the archival and judicial histories of the provisions on language, federalism, citizenship, and emergency, The Trauma of the Indian Constitution will argue that the Partition of India, the originary scission, has been repressed and disavowed in traditional and contemporary constitutional law scholarship
- Sabarish Suresh, The Trauma of the Indian Constitution: Partition and Repetition (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press).
- Sabarish Suresh, ‘The Cartojuridism of the British East India Company’ Law and History Review, 1–30, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248024000051
- Sabarish Suresh, ‘The Cartographic Body in Crisis’ in Ishita Jain, Deepa Ganesh, and Latika Vashist (eds.), Seminar India (special issue on ‘The Body’, April 2023).
- Sabarish Suresh, ‘The Constitutional Memory of Violence’ in Shiv Visvanathan (ed.), Seminar India (special issue on ‘Fables of Violence’, July 2022).
- Sabarish Suresh, ‘Cartographies’ in Peter Goodrich et. al (ed). Research Handbook in Law and Literature (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, March 2022).
- Legal History,
- Legal Theory,
- Criminal Law,
- Constitutional Law,
- Law and Cartography,
- Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence