Professor Manoj Mate is an Assistant Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Whittier. Professor Mate’s teaching and research examines international and comparative law, judicial politics, constitutional law, law and society, and law and politics in India.

Professor Mate’s most recent publications include Public Interest Litigation and the Expansion of Judicial Power in India, forthcoming in Consequential Courts: New Judicial Roles in Comparative Perspective, (Kapiszewski et al eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012), Priests in the Temple of Justice: The Indian Legal Complex and the Basic Structure Doctrine, in The Legal Complex in Post-Colonial Struggles for Political Freedom, (Halliday, Karpik, Feeley, eds., Cambridge Univ Press, 2012), and The Origins of Substantive Due Process in India: The Role of Borrowing in Preventive Detention and Personal Liberty Cases, 28 Berkeley J. of Int’l Law 216 (2010)). He is currently working on a book manuscript analyzing the extraordinary expansion of the power of the Supreme Court of India in the post-Emergency era.

Prior to joining Whittier, Professor Mate served as a Fellow in Comparative Law at Berkeley Law School, and as a Mellon-Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley. Mate has been awarded fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the University of California. At Whittier, Professor Mate teaches international law and constitutional law, and also serves as a faculty advisor to Whittier’s Jessup International Moot Court team. Mate also served as Senior Policy Advisor to Mayor Julian Castro in the City of San Antonio, where he worked on the development of policies and initiatives in the areas of sustainability and renewable energy, and coordinated the development of health and fitness initiatives, in conjunction with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign.

• Public Interest Litigation and the Transformation of the Supreme Court of India, forthcoming in CONSEQUENTIAL COURTS: JUDICIAL ROLES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, Kapiszewski, Silverstein, and Kagan et al. , eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press 2012).
• Priests in the Temple of Justice: The Indian Legal Complex and the Basic Structure Doctrine, in FATES OF POLITICAL FREEDOM: THE LEGAL COMPLEX IN THE BRITISH POST-COLONY, Terence Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm Feeley, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012) .
• THE VARIABLE POWER OF COURTS: THE EXPANSION OF THE POWER OF THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA IN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE CASES (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2010).
• The Origins of Due Process in India: The Role of Borrowing in Personal Liberty and Preventive Detention Cases, 28 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 216 (2010).
• Two Paths to Judicial Power: The Basic Structure Doctrine and Public Interest Litigation in Comparative Perspective, 12 San Diego Int’l L.J. 175 (2010)).
• State Security and Elite Capture: The Implementation of Anti-Terrorist Legislation in India (with A. Naseemullah), 9 J. Hum. Rts. 262 (2010)).
• The 2000 Presidential Election Controversy in PUBLIC OPINION AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROVERSY, N. Persily et al., eds. ( Oxford Univ. Press, 2008).

• The Expansion of the Power of the Supreme Court of India in Governance, presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
• Learning from the Mistakes of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA): The Mumbai Terror Attacks and the Future of Anti-terrorist Law in India, presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado, May 2009.
• Priests in the Temple of Justice: Judicial Independence, the Basic Structure Doctrine and the Legal Complex in India, presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado, May 2009.
• State Security and Elite Capture: The Implementation of Anti-Terrorist Legislation in India (with A. Naseemullah), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 29, 2008 (Winner, Best Paper Award, APSA Human Rights Section).
• Public Interest Litigation and the Transformation of the Indian Supreme Court, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 2008.
• Two Paths to Judicial Power: The Basic Structure Doctrine and Public Interest Litigation, presented at the Andrew W. Mellon-Sawyer Seminar: The Dilemmas of Judicial Power in Comparative Perspective, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, January 31, 2008.
• Bush v. Gore and the Microfoundations of Public Support for the U.S. Supreme Court, (with Matthew Wright) presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 31, 2006.
• The Origins of Substantive Due Process: The Role of Borrowing in Personal Liberty and Preventive Detention Cases, presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 2006.