Rahul Singh

Education

BA LLB (Hons), National Law School of India University
LLM, Harvard Law School

Profile

Rahul Singh teaches Competition Law & Policy, Regulation, WTO and Jurisprudence at NLSIU. He has also been a visiting professor at numerous institutions including University of California at Berkeley (USA), University of Florida Levin College of Law (USA), Harvard University (USA), Deakin University (Australia), and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (India).

He is a member of the Competition Commission of India’a Advisory Committee on Regulation. His law review articles on Competition law are available on Westlaw and have been cited by the Chief Justice of the Australian apex Court. He is also a consultant for several law firms and corporations.

He graduated with a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School where he was a Myer Dana & Etta Dana Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts and Laws (BA, LLB Honors) degree from NLSIU where he was awarded four Gold Medals by the Chief Justice of India for exceptional academic excellence (including for being the ‘Best Student’). He was also a law clerk for Justice V. N. Khare, Chief Justice of India in 2003.

Publications

Authored publications:

• Law-and-Economics of Business Judgment Rule in India, Asian Journal of Law and Economics, January 9, 2024
• Start-ups vs Google: Action can be taken only as per law, The Hindu Business Line Podcast | April 24, 2023
• Why has the CCI levied multiple penalties on Google, The Hindu In Focus podcast | November 15, 2022
• The Supreme Court of India’s Respite to the State of Mizoram from Competition Law Proceedings | February 15, 2022
  The article argues that a synthesis of ‘exclusive legal positivism’ and ‘law-and-economics’ offers a workable model of Indian corporate jurisprudence. In another iteration of the utility of ‘The Meld Model’, this post uses the Indian Supreme Court’s judgment of 19 January 2022 in Competition Commission of India v State of Mizoram (CCI v Mizoram) as a test suite.
• The Meld Model: The Holy Grail of Indian Corporate Jurisprudence, National Law School Business Law Review | January 26, 2022
• Chilling competition? Trade associations & the Indian competition regime (Rahul Singh & Dhanendra Kumar) | October 31, 2020
• Law review articles on Competition law are available on Westlaw and have been cited by the Chief Justice of the Australian Apex Court.

Featured in the Press: 

Explained: The US antitrust ruling against Google and its implications for India, Indian Express | August 11, 2024

Why Big Tech Gets More Scrutiny in India Than Big Ports and Big Media, Bloomberg | March 28, 2024