Abhinav Chandrachud Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	• Lawyer • Author • Legal Scholar
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Personal Life
Birthplace	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Mumbai
College/University	• Government Law College (GLC), Mumbai • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts • Stanford Law School, California
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from GLC (2003-2008) • Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School (2008-2009) • Master of the Science of Law (JSM) from Stanford Law School (2011-2012)
Social Media	• Facebook • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse	Aparna
Children	2
Parents	Father- D. Y. Chandrachud (lawyer) Mother- Rashmi Chandrachud (lawyer) (deceased) Stepmother- Kalpana Das (lawyer)
Siblings	Brother- 1 • Chintan Chandrachud (advocate) Sister(s)- 2 (both are foster and differently-abled) • Mahi • Priyanka
Grandparents	Grandfather- Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (16th Chief Justice of India) Grandmother- Prabha Chandrachud (classical musician)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Abhinav Chandrachud

• Abhinav Chandrachud grew up in a family of lawyers in Mumbai.

• His father served as the 50th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, while his grandfather, Y. V. Chandrachud, served as the 16th Chief Justice of India; Y. V. Chandrachud is the longest-serving Chief Justice in India, having served for 7 years and 4 months (2696 days).

• Abhinav attended Government Law College (GLC) in Mumbai from 2003 to 2008, where he was a rank-holder and received the Honourable Justice D. P. Madon Prize for Constitutional Law.

• Abhinav later received a full Commonwealth scholarship for the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) program at Oxford University, but he chose to study at Harvard Law School instead, as he had always wanted to study there because his father and maternal grandfather did.
  

  Abhinav Chandrachud during his college days

• He worked as a paralegal (student associate) at AZB & Partners in Mumbai from 2005 to 2008.

• Abhinav served as a trainee law clerk under the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from August 2006 to September 2006.

• From 2007 to 2008, Abhinav worked as a research assistant for Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reform in India under the Planning Commission, Government of India.

• His mother, Rashmi Chandrachud, passed away due to cancer in 2007.

• In 2008, he became a member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, India.

• Abhinav worked as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles and Singapore from 2009 to 2011.

• In 2010, he was admitted to the State Bar of New York, USA.

• Abhinav has contributed to the blog ‘Law and Other Things.’ In 2011, he authored the book ‘Due Process of Law.’

• In September 2013, he joined Stanford Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession as a research assistant.

• In November 2013, Abhinav presented his doctoral dissertation, ‘An Independent, Colonial Judiciary,’ at the K. R. Cama Oriental Institue in Mumbai.

• In the winter of 2014, he taught a 2-credit seminar titled ‘History of India’s Legal Profession: An Introduction’ as a visiting professor at NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, Telangana.

• He has also been a guest lecturer at the Government Law College in Mumbai.
  

  Abhinav Chandrachud during a lecture

• In 2014, his book ‘The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria for Selecting and Appointing Judges to the Supreme Court of India’ was published by Oxford University Press, Delhi.

• Abhinav has written many other books including ‘Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India’ (2017) and ‘Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-1989’ (2018), and ‘These Seats Are Reserved’ (2023).
  

  Abhinav Chandrachud while signing the copies of his book ‘These Seats Are Reserved: Caste, Quotas, and the Constitution of India’ (2023)

• On 18 February 2025, Abhinav represented content creator and YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia in the Supreme Court regarding multiple FIRs filed against him over controversial remarks on India’s Got Latent.

• During the Supreme Court hearing, Abhinav argued that Ranveer should not be arrested because he faced multiple FIRs for the same issue, and arresting him would be unfair. While he admitted being “disgusted” by Ranveer’s remarks, he said that using bad language alone is not a crime.

• Abhinav is fluent in Hindi and Marathi and has a basic understanding of French.