Dr. G. Mohan Gopal is a jurist "who focuses on representative democracy, the Cinderella of India's democracy, stifled by the oligarchs that rule India in the name of merit". He is a former director of the national judicial academy of the Supreme Curt of India and a former vice-chancellor of the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Dr. Gopal is currently an advocate in the Supreme Court of India focusing on select constitutional law cases. Dr. Gopal holds a doctorate in law from Harvard University.