He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India in May The second child of India's longest-serving chief justice, Y. He has been part of benches that delivered landmark judgments such as the electoral bond scheme verdict, Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute , privacy verdict , decriminalisation of homosexuality , Sabarimala case , same-sex marriage case and on revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
He has visited the universities of Mumbai , Oklahoma , Harvard , Yale and others as a professor. Dhananjaya Chandrachud was born in the Chandrachud family on 11 November Columba's School, Delhi , he graduated with honours in economics and mathematics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in He was awarded an Inlaks Scholarship, offered to Indian citizens pursuing graduate education abroad, and received the Joseph H.
Beale Prize at Harvard. Chandrachud studied law at Delhi University in at a time when few jobs were available to young law graduates, although his father was the Chief Justice of India at the time he was studying the law. He worked for a while, as a junior advocate assisting lawyers and judges, including drafting some briefs for Fali Nariman. After graduating from Harvard , Chandrachud first worked at the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell.
He described this experience as "sheer fluke" due to the strong pecking order that existed at that time, and a strong bias against hiring Indians and men from developing countries. That year, he was appointed an Additional Solicitor General of India , a role he held until his appointment as a Judge.
During this time, he was also Director of the Maharashtra Judicial Academy. On 17 October , he was nominated the chief justice of India designate and after the retirement of the then chief justice, Uday Umesh Lalit , he was sworn in as the 50th chief justice of India on 9 November Apart from his judicial service, Justice Chandrachud was also a visiting professor of comparative constitutional law at the University of Mumbai and University of Oklahoma College of Law in the United States.
