Raju Ramachandran (born 1954) studied economics at St Stephen's College and law at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He joined the Bar in 1976, and worked in the chambers of Late Shri M K Ramamurthi, Senior Advocate and Shri S K Dholakia, Senior Advocate before starting his own practice in the Supreme Court. He became an advocate on record of the Supreme Court in 1981, and was designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in 1996. He has, throughout his practice been associated with legal aid. He has argued important cases in the fields of constitutional, administrative, civil, administrative and copyright law in the Supreme Court and different High Courts in India. He was Additional Solicitor General of India from 2002 to 2004. He was appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court in the Gulberg Society and the Ajmal Kasab cases, and is currently assisting the Supreme Court as amicus curiae in the Sabarimala and Nirbhaya cases. He is the author of Changing Profession, Changing Ethics (2003), revising author of B R Agarwala's Supreme Court Practice and Procedure (2002) and co-editor of Supreme but not infallible: Essays in Honour of the Supreme Court of India (2000).
