Mayur’s research interests include law and ethnography, socio-legal studies, emergency regimes, legal theory, and ordinary language philosophy.

His doctoral research is based on ethnographic fieldwork involving terrorism cases that took place in Delhi’s trial courts. His book Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts (Fordham University Press, 2023) is derived from this research. More broadly, his research seeks to bring an anthropological perspective to the study of legal processes.

In 2023, he was awarded the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for a project titled The Social Life of Law in Authoritarian Contexts. With this award, he plans to build a research team to do ethnographic and quantitative research into how authoritarian States use law to reconstitute society.

Mayur is a Reader in Law at SOAS, University of London. He holds a BA LLB (Hons) from NLSIU, Bengaluru, an LLM from Columbia Law School, and a PhD in law and anthropology from Birkbeck, University of London.