Justice Dy Chandrachud

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DY Chandrachud is the 50th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. He has served as the Judge of the Supreme Court of India (2016-2022). From 31 October 2013 to 12 May 2016, he served as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, and from 29 March 2000 to 30 October 2013, he served as the Judge of the Bombay High Court.After his LLB in 1982, he worked as a junior prosecutor for a while during which he assisted various lawyers and judges. He also drafted some briefs for advocate Fali Sam Nariman.Thereafter, he moved to the US, where he worked at the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell LLP following his graduation from Harvard.After returning to India, he started practising at the Supreme Court of India and the Bombay High Court.In June 1998, he was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Bombay High Court.Thereafter, he appeared in several important cases involving public interest litigation (PIL), rights of bonded women workers, rights of HIV-positive workers, contract labour and rights of religious and linguistic minorities. He has represented several public bodies including the Reserve Bank of India, Port Trusts, Municipal Corporations, and Universities.He was also appointed by Supreme Court to submit a report on the state of Bombay Benches.He taught International Law at Oklahoma University, USA. Besides, he also worked as visiting professor of comparative constitutional law at the University of Bombay from 1988 to 1997. Apart from that, he has delivered lectures at the Australian National University, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.He started serving as a judge at the Bombay High Court on 29 March 2000 until his appointment as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on 31 October 2013. During this time, he also held the position of Director of the Maharashtra Judicial Academy.He became the executive chairman of the National Legal Services Authority in 2022.