Staff profile

Karamvir is an Assistant Professor in Legal Theory at Durham Law School.

Before coming to Durham, Karamvir studied law, economics, and philosophy (variously) at the Universities of Manchester, North Carolina, Bologna, Hamburg, Bristol, Oxford, and Cambridge.

Research

Karamvir works at the intersection of philosophy and legal theory. His research is about how law and philosophy—​especially ethics and political philosophy—can help oppressed people to understand and combat their oppression. Karamvir's current research programme focuses on the moral and legal importance of consent, especially sexual consent. He is also beginning a parallel research programme focusing on what makes a group an ethnic group, whether Sikhs are an ethnic group, and how best to understand discrimination on the ground of ethnicity.

Teaching

• Introduction to English Law and Legal Method
• Jurisprudence

Website

www.karamvirchadha.com

• Consent
• Ethics
• Ethnicity
• Jurisprudence
• Legal Theory
• Normative Powers
• Political Philosophy

Chapter in book

• Chadha, K. (2022). Sex and Consent. In B. D. Earp, C. Chambers, & L. Watson (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003286523-19

Journal Article

• Chadha, K. (online). Criminalizing Sex: Is Consent all that Matters?. Criminal Law and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-024-09728-5
• Chadha, K. (online). Sexual Consent and Having Sex Together. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,
• Chadha, K. (2021). Conditional Consent. Law and Philosophy, 40(3), 335-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-020-09400-8