[ He is the author or co-author of numerous books on legal and human rights topics, and is a regular columnist in the leading newspapers in India.[2][3]]Career
Rajeev Dhavan studied law at Allahabad University, then at the University of Cambridge and London University.
He has taught at Queen's University Belfast, the University of West London, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Texas at Austin.
He is an Honorary Professor at the Indian Law Institute.
Dhavan is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India and was designated in 1994.
He runs the Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre, which tries to make youth aware of constitutional and legal subjects.[7]
Dhavan was elected to the International Commission of Jurists in 1998, and was a member of the Executive Committee between 2003 and 2007, and from 2009.
He was appointed chairperson of the Executive Committee in 2009.
In March 2003 Dhavan was a signatory to a statement that condemned the US-led invasion of Iraq, calling it "unprovoked, unjustified and violative of international law and the United Nations Charter". Other signatories included Rajinder Sachar, Shanti Bhushan, Pavani Parameswara Rao, Kapil Sibal and Prashant Bhushan. {{citation needed|date=August 2012}}
Dhavan has represented the Babri Masjid Action Committee before the Allahbad High Court over the title to the land on which the mosque stood before being destroyed by a mob in 1992.[7]
When the Allahbad High Court ruled that the site should be divided between Hindus and Muslims, Dhavan said: "This is panchayati justice which takes away the legal rights of Muslims and converts the moral sentimental entitlements of Hindus into legal rights".[4]
Bibliography
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|title=Juristic Techniques in the Supreme Court of India 1950-1971 in Some Selected Areas of Public and Personal Law
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|year=1972 |pages=1454}}
|title=Black People in Britain, the Way Forward: A Report of a Conference Held [In Bloomsbury Hotel, London] 17-19 January 1975
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=The Committee |year=1976 |ISBN=0950565903 |pages=227}}
|title=The Supreme Court of India and parliamentary sovereignty: a critique of its approach to the recent constitutional crisis
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=Sterling Publishers |year=1976 |pages=404}}
|title=The Supreme Court of India: A Socio-legal Critique of Its Juristic Techniques
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=N. M. Tripathi |year=1977 |pages=524}}
|title=Selection and appointment of Supreme Court judges: a case study
|author1=Rajeev Dhavan |author2=Alice Jacob |publisher=N.M. Tripathi |year=1978 |pages=125}}
|title=The amendment: conspiracy or revolution?
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=Wheeler |year=1978 |pages=235}}
|title=The Supreme Court under strain: the challenge of arrears
|author=Rajeev Dhavan, P. Kalpakam, Indian Law Institute
|publisher=Tripathi |year=1978 |pages=164}}
|title=Censorship and obscenity
|author1=Rajeev Dhavan |author2=Christie Davies |publisher=Rowman and Littlefield |year=1978
|ISBN=0847660540
|pages=187}}
|title=President's rule in the states
|author=Rajeev Dhavan, Indian Law Institute
|publisher=N. M. Tripathi |year=1979 |pages=240}}
|title=Justice on trial: the Supreme Court today
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=Wheeler |year=1980 |pages=292}}
|title=Contempt of Court and the Press
|author=Rajeev Dhavan, Indian Law Institute, Press Council of India
|publisher=N.M. Tripathi |year=1982 |pages=280}}
|title=Judges and the judicial power: essays in honour of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer
|author1=V. R. Krishna Iyer |author2=Rajeev Dhavan |author3=Salman Khurshid |publisher=Sweet & Maxwell |year=1985 |ISBN=0421288604 |pages=340}}
|title=Litigation explosion in India
|author=Rajeev Dhavan, Indian Law Institute
|publisher=N.M. Tripathi |year=1986 |pages=179}}
|title=Public Interest Law
|author=Jeremy Cooper
|editor1=Jeremy Cooper |editor2=Rajeev Dhavan |publisher=Basil Blackwell |year=1986 |ISBN=0631142991 |pages=482}}
|title=Only the Good News: On the Law of the Press in India
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=Manohar Publications |year=1987 |ISBN=818505438X |pages=514}}
|title=Access to legal education and the legal profession
|author1=Rajeev Dhavan |author2=William L. Twining |author3=Neil Kibble |publisher=Butterworths |year=1989 |ISBN=0406700656 |pages=343}}
|title=Law and Society in Modern India
|author1=Marc Galanter |author2=Rajeev Dhavan |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1989 |ISBN=0195622944 |pages=329}}
|title=Refugee Law and Policy in India
|authors=Rajeev Dhavan, Public Interest Legal Support & Research Centre (New Delhi, India)
|publisher=PILSARC |year=2004 |pages=164}}
|title=Reserved!: How Parliament Debated Reservations 1995-2007
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=Rupa & Company |year=2008 |ISBN=8129113694 |pages=319}}
|title=Publish and be Damned: Censorship and Intolerance in India
|author=Rajeev Dhavan
|publisher=Tulika Books |year=2008 |ISBN=8189487450 |pages=312}}{{refend}}References
1. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main51.asp?filename=hub250212Rajeev.asp |title=Q&A Rajeev Dhavan, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India - ‘Our policy is to ban first and hear later’ |journal=Tehelka Magazine |volume=9 |issue=08 |date=25 Feb 2012 |accessdate=2012-04-26}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://indiandemocracy08.berkeley.edu/speakers.html |title=Speakers: Rajeev Dhavan |publisher=The Center for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley |accessdate=2012-04-26}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/rajeev-dhavan/|title=Rajeev Dhavan|website=The Indian Express|access-date=2016-12-01}}
4. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article805552.ece |date=1 October 2010 |title=Panchayati justice that takes away legal rights of Muslims: Rajeev Dhavan |journal=The Hindu |author=J. VENKATESAN |accessdate=2012-04-26}}
5. ^1 2 {{cite journal |url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2721/stories/20101022272102000.htm |journal=Frontline |volume=27 |issue=21 |date=9–22 Oct 2010 |title=‘Seriously flawed' |first=V. |last=VENKATESAN |accessdate=2012-04-26}}