Education

• BBA LLB, Symbiosis Law School, Pune – 2013
• MA (Law and Politics), Ashoka University, Sonepat – 2016
• LLM (Law and Development), Azim Premj University, Bangalore – 2017
• Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia – 2023

Profile

Rahul’s academic interests lie in empirical legal studies and the applications of AI technology in the legal field. His ongoing research centres on adjudication in the Supreme Court of India, heuristic biases in judicial decision-making and the evaluation of AI-tools for legal tasks. He teaches courses on Empirical Legal Studies, Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Research Methodology and Jurisprudence.

Rahul has previously practised as a litigator with Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys and taught at the Tamil Nadu National Law University, Tiruchirappalli. He received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina, where he was a Thurmond–Atwater Fellow and was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant.

Research Interests

• Empirical Legal Studies
• Artificial Intelligence and the Law
• Comparative Public Law
• Legal Education

Publications

• Hemrajani, R. and Hobert, A.W. (2026) Judging at a Distance: The Effects of Remote Hearings during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Law & Social Inquiry, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2025.10133.
• Hemrajani, R et. al. (2025) ChatGPT Goes to (National)Law School. Indian Journal of Law and Technology: Vol. 20: Iss. 2, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.55496/RZKH7712.
• Hemrajani, R. and Hobert, A. (2024). The Effects of Decision Fatigue on Judicial Behavior: A Study of Arkansas Traffic Court Outcomes. Journal of Law and Courts. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlc.2023.21
• Singh, R. Hemrajani, R. and Ahuja, A. 2023. Preventive Repression: Protest Policing in New Delhi. Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2147075.
• Case, C. Eddy, C. Hemrajani, R. Howell, C. Lyons, D., Sung Y and Connors E.C. 2021. The Effects of Source Cues and Issue Frames During COVID-19. Journal of Experimental Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2021.3.
• Hemrajani, R. 2020. The Empty Court: A Quantitative Analysis of Vacancies in the Supreme Court of India. 35 Delhi Law Review 55-73.
• Hemrajani, R and Agarwal, H. 2019. A Temporal Analysis of the Supreme Court of India. Indian Law Review. 10.1080/24730580.2019.1636751.

Links to his other publications can be found at https://rahulh.com/