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Upendra Baxi (born 9 November 1938) is a legal scholar based in New Delhi, India.

At present, he is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Universities of Warwick and Delhi.

Upendra Baxi born in Rajkot, Saurashtra, graduated from Rajkot (Gujarat University), and read law at the University of Bombay. He went on to study at the Law School at University of California at Berkeley. In 1972, after having earned Doctorate in Juristic Sciences from the University of California, Baxi taught at the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at Sydney Law School (1969-1973). In 1973, he joined the University of Delhi. He was one of the youngest professors to have joined the Faculty of Law.

Subsequently, he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (1975-1978). He continued teaching in the University of Delhi until 1994 (and Professor Emeritus since 2010). During this period, he also served as the Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University (1990-1994), as well as the Vice-Chancellor, University of South Gujarat, Surat (1982-1985), the Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute (1985-1988), and the President of the Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995). In 1996, Baxi joined at the Law School at the University of Warwick as a Professor of Law in Development until 2008, and has been emeritus professor since 2009.

He has been an honorary professor of the National Law School of India University (Bangalore); the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR, Hyderabad); the National Law University (Delhi), the Gujarat National Law University (Gandhinagar); and the Jindal Global Law School (Sonepat). He has taught various courses in Law and Science, Comparative Constitutionalism, Legal Theory, and Comparative Social Theory of Human Rights, and Law and the Anthropocene.