Jayanth Krishnan is the Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He teaches courses in property, comparative law, and immigration. In 2015, he received the Law School's highest teaching honor, the Leon Wallace Teaching Award, and in 2012, he earned the Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award. He was named director of Indiana Law's Center on the Global Legal Profession in 2014.

Krishnan's academic research focuses on the legal profession, the behavior of lawyers, law-and-globalization, and legal education, with a special emphasis on how these areas intersect in India. He has written extensively on these subjects and his work has appeared in both highly reputed law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.