Professor Manoj Mate is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Whittier Law School, and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science at Whittier College. Mate’s research centers on comparative law, judicial politics, constitutional law, law and society, election law, law in India and South Asian politics. At Whittier, Professor Mate teaches international law, constitutional law, and election law, and serves as a faculty advisor to the Jessup International Moot Court team. 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.

Professor Mate previously served as a Fellow in Comparative Law at Berkeley Law School, and as a Mellon-Sawyer Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley. Before that, he was in private practice, primarily in the area of commercial litigation, at O’Melveny & Myers. Mate also served as Senior Policy Advisor to Mayor Julian Castro in the City of San Antonio , where he worked on the development of sustainability and green jobs policies, and health and fitness initiatives.

Mate received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as student body president, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Mate also received his B.A. in Political Science (with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded the Departmental Citation in Political Science, awarded to the top student in the graduating class in the department.

• High Courts and Electoral Reform in the U.S. and India (work in progress)

• Public Interest Litigation and the Transformation of the Supreme Court of India, forthcoming in CONSEQUENTIAL COURTS: NEW JUDICIAL ROLES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, Robert Kagan, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013).

• Priests in the Temple of Justice: The Indian Legal Complex and the Basic Structure Doctrine, forthcoming in FATES OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM IN THE BRITISH POST-COLONY: THE POLITICS OF THE LEGAL COMPLEX (Terence Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm Feeley, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).

• 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 JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 262 (Fall 2010).

• The 2000 Presidential Election Controversy, in PUBLIC OPINION AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROVERSY (N. Persily et al., eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) (with Matthew Wright).

• The Judicial Response to Electoral Reform in the U.S. and Indian Supreme Courts, presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Hollywood, California, March 2013.

• “Protecting the Ability to Openly Challenge Government Policies Crucial for Democracy,” India Abroad, November 30, 2012 (interviewed for article).

• Public Interest Litigation and the Expansion of Judicial Power in India, presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2012.

• 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 Indi_a, presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado, May 2009.

• Rights, Governance, and the Expansion of Judicial Power in India, presented at Indian Democracy: Justice & the Law, FDRI/Berkeley Seminar on Indian Democracy, co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley and the Foundation for Democratic Reforms in India, September 26-27, 2008.

• 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, Human Rights section).

• 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,