Prashanta Augustine is a Bingham Fellow at the Institute for Justice.
Prashanta received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2023, where he was a Notes & Comments Editor for the Yale Law Journal and a teaching assistant for constitutional law. He received his B.A. magna cum laude in Financial Economics and Political Science from the University of Rochester.
After his fellowship year, Prashanta will clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He comes to IJ from a clerkship with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He previously worked for a law firm in New York.
Prashanta 's Cases
Commercial Speech | First Amendment
Equine Body Work Teachers Sue Wisconsin for Violation of First Amendment Right to Occupational Speech
Jim Masterson has been working with animals for almost 30 years. But Wisconsin said he can’t teach without subjecting Jim’s school to an all-encompassing review of everything from Jim’s curriculum to intrusive inquiries into his…
Prashanta 's Podcasts
May 15, 2026
Short Circuit 428 | Shopping With Roy Moore
You may remember Roy Moore’s 2017 campaign in Alabama for the U.S. Senate in which a controversy arose as to his behavior at the Gadsden […]
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