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- jkrishna@iu.edu
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Jayanth Krishnan is the Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the director of the Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. He teaches courses on property, the legal profession/legal ethics, immigration, and comparative law. Krishnan has been the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Law School's highest teaching honor, the Leon Wallace Teaching Award (2025, 2015), the Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award (2023, 2012), and the IU Black Law Students Association’s Most Outstanding Interactive Professor Award (2023). He was named director of Indiana Law's Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession in 2014.
Krishnan is a socio-legal researcher who focuses on the legal profession, immigration, law and globalization, access to justice, and legal education. Much of his work has examined how these areas intersect in the U.S. and in India, but he has also written on the ways these issues operate in places such as Anglophonic Africa, Brazil, the Middle East, and other parts of Asia. His work has appeared in both highly reputed law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and in academic press books.
As director of the Stewart Center, Krishnan has led a range of research, pedagogical, service, and public events initiatives. The Center’s website has a detailed archive describing all the work that has transpired during his tenure as director.
Krishnan was also co-director of the Law School's Center for Law, Society & Culture from 2011–2014. In October 2017 he was named the Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law.
In addition to having a law degree from Ohio State University, Krishnan holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to coming to Bloomington, Krishnan was a Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he received the Teacher of the Year award for the 2003–2004 academic year. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Iowa's College of Law, as the British Academy Visiting Professor at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University's College of Law.
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