Executive

Profile

Shyam Divan, photo

Current LAWASIA President

Mr Shyam Divan

Senior Advocate | Supreme Court of India (INDIA)

Shyam Divan is a senior advocate and practices before the Supreme Court of India. His areas of practice cover constitutional law and most branches of civil litigation including banking, securities law, arbitration, administrative law, and environmental law.

In 2021 he received the International Privacy Champion Award from the Electronic Privacy Information Center for his role in a set of privacy protection cases.

He is the co-author of Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases and Materials (3rd Ed, Oxford, 2022) and has authored chapters on Public Interest Litigation in the Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (2016) and on The Environment and the Constitution in the Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (forthcoming, 2024).

Mr Divan was elected President of LAWASIA in November 2023.