Gautam Bhatia on Law, Life, and Other Things | Letter of Law Interviews | Ep. 23

In the 23rd episode of Letter of Law Interviews, I am delighted to host Dr. Gautam Bhatia for a freewheeling conversation on law, books, writing, courts, and everything in between. Tune in for an incredible conversation!

Time stamps:

Introduction: 00:00
Completion of Dphil and publication of books: 00:20
How The Wall & The Horizon have been received: 01:33
Being taken seriously as a Spec.Fic writer: 04:00
Misplaced reviews: 05:20
Celebrity status: 06:27
Time as a law student: 08:11
Writing The Wall in law school: 10:33
Doing more in law school: 11:15
'What I didn't want to do': 12:33
Figuring out: 14:14
Rhodes and going abroad: 15:11
Value of UG law school for Rhodes: 15:45
Writing papers in law school: 18:53
How to publish papers in law school: 20:08
On pursuing M.Phil and going to Yale: 21:39
Interest in Constitutional Law: 22:38
Developments with The Wall: 23:17
'Shed enough tears': 24:45
Joining Strange Horizons: 26:04
Success of others: 26:52
Changing career plans and returning to India: 28:55
Practical experience for academics: 30:24
On trolls and the practise of law: 33:28
If you didn't tweet, did you even argue: 37:11
Live tweeting: 38:00
Publish or perish: 39:07
Arguments in law and Science Fiction: 40:28
Experience as a lawyer in India: 42:13
Finding time in litigation: 43:09
Getting into the mindset: 45:40
Getting involved in important constitutional matters: 47:50
Filing an amicus brief in Kenya: 49:45
Approach towards reading: 52:35
Making notes of books: 53:29
Starting the ICLP Blog: 54:00
Pressure in writing after a large readership of ICLP: 55:03
Presenting the 'other view' on the Blog: 56:42
On articles influencing judgements: 01:00:38
Legal debate has gone soft: 01:03:07
On writing articles quickly: 01:04:24
On feeling inefficient and insecure: 01:07:32
Managing time: 01:09:56
No social life: 01:11:49
Unwinding and relaxing: 01:12:47
Rapid fire!: 01:13:48
Oxford over Yale: 01:15:03
Racism and discrimination abroad: 01:16:13
Consti. law or Science Fiction: 01:19:00
Favourite book: 01:19:39
Favourite author: 01:20:00
Ronald Dworkin and old writing: 01:20:23
Book recommendations: 01:21:03
Returning to India: 01:23:28
Conclusion: 01:23:58

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Credits:
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Video Editing: Vaibhav Gangian

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