B.A., LL.M., Ph.D.

Specialization - Constitutional Law, Environmental Law and Jurisprudence

He did his LL.B. (Allahabad) and LL.M. securing the top rank of his batch in the year 1993 from BHU. He received a UGC Merit Scholarship for his LL.M and the BHU Researcher Scholarship at the Ph.D. level. He started his teaching career in 1996 as a lecturer at Agra College and joined BHU in 1997.

His areas of specialization and interest include Environmental Law, Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence. He has participated and presented papers in more than 26 National and International seminars/workshop. Dr Gupta has contributed articles in many journals and books.

He is life member of the Environmental and Consumer Protections Foundation, New Delhi and of Academique, a discussion group at Varanasi. He has attended two refresher courses at NLSIU, Bangalore and at ILI, New Delhi on Environmental Law and one advanced training course at NLSIU, Bangalore.

He has also worked as the Secretary of the Departmental Council during 2004-05. He has played an active role as member of the committee which designed and executed a prestigious World Bank project namely “The Environmental Law Management Capacity Building Project” at Law School, BHU. At present, he is the Executive Director of the Clinical Legal Education Programme (CLEP).