Real path · from public sources

D. Y. Chandrachud

Law student to Chief Justice of India · now: Judge

Every turn on one road

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D.'s road

College1979 – 1986

School1983 – 1986

WorkAfter 1986 – 2024

Honours degree at St Stephen's CollegeHonours in economics, graduated 1979

Planned economics, chose lawCampus Law Centre lectures changed hi…

Law degree at Campus Law CentreDelhi University, 1982

Inlaks scholarshipWon before his LL.M. at Harvard

LL.M. at Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School, 1983

Doctorate at Harvard Law SchoolS.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science),…

Works at a law firm in the United StatesA stint at a US law firm after Harvard

Enrols as an advocateWith the Bar Council of Maharashtra

Practises as an advocateBombay High Court and the Supreme Cou…

Designated a senior advocateBy the Bombay High Court, June 1998

Additional Solicitor General of IndiaFrom 1998 until he became a judge in…

Judge of the Bombay High CourtFrom 29 March 2000

Chief Justice of the Allahabad High CourtFrom 31 October 2013

Judge of the Supreme Court of IndiaAppointed 13 May 2016

Chief Justice of IndiaThe 50th, 9 November 2022 to 10 Novem…

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