Rohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and a historian of South Asia and the British common law world. His most recent book Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History (2025), co-authored with Ornit Shani examines how thousands of ordinary Indians, read, deliberated, debated and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing . He is the author of A People's Constitution:  The Everyday Law in the Indian Republic (2018) which won the Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association. Supported by a Carnegie Fellowship he is currently working on a history of human rights and civil liberties lawyering across the decolonizing world. Rohit completed his PhD from Princeton University and has law degrees from Yale Law School and the National Law School of India.