Academic Writing

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Blog: Courting International Law

This blog chronicles my courtship with international law as a discipline.

Edited Books:

• Referendums in International Law: An Analysis [with William Nunes] Ruby Press Co. (2019)

Book Chapters:

• Advancing the Legal Research, Capacity and Awareness for Climate Law and Governance [with Christina Voigt and Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger] in Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance (2024)
• UNFCCC CoP26: Key Outcomes for Soil Management [with Fabiano de Andrade Correa and Margret Vidar] in International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2022 (2024)

Book Reviews:

• Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation. Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions in the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law (2021)

Casenotes:

• Sharma v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. in the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (2020)

Columns and Blogposts:

• Bangladesh’s Vision for Climate Justice: Analysing its Submissions to the International Court of Justice, Indian Blog of International Law (2024)
• The Advisory Opinion Could Reshape Global Climate Governance, also available in German as Das IGH-Gutachten könnte die globale Klimagovernance grundlegend ändern [with Marie-Claire Cordonier and Markus Gehring], Verfassungsblog (2024)
• Remaining Tensions Between the “Global Souths” and the “Global Norths”: Reflecting on Some CBD COP16 Outcomes [with Renatus Otto Franz Derler], Volkerrechtsblog (2024)
• COPs as Emerging Subjects of International Law? Rethinking Legal Personality in Global Governance [with Sebastián Rioseco], EJIL:Talk! (2024)
• Navigating the Complex Interplay of Politics, Conservation, and Community in World Heritage Management [with Roger Negredo, Elisa Fallani, and Tatiana Rozochkina], Volkerrechtsblog (2024)
• Reflections on Spatiality in International Law [with Raghavi Viswanath], International Law and the Global South (2022)
• Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Querying #ILTwitter as a Tweetling [with Raghavi Viswanath], Opinio Juris (2022)
• At COP26, experts make a commitment to scale-up climate law and governance tenfold by 2024, University of Waterloo, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (2021)
• Leading Experts at COP26 Commit to Scale-Up Climate Law & Governance Capacity Worldwide Tenfold from 600 to 6,000 by 2024, Balsillie School of International Affairs (2021)
• CoP26 Outcomes and Reasons for Hope [with Freedom-Kai Phillips], Bennett Institute for Public Policy (2021)
• Playing The Devil’s Advocate: How the Government may just pass a Test Under Article 21 while Mandating the Aarogya Setu Application [with Radhika Parthasarathy], Manupatra (2020)
• Coordinating Judgements: Ensuring Certainty In The Law [with Kartikeya Sharma], Livelaw.in (2020)
• Court & Contempt: Dissent From The Bar [with Kartikeya Sharma], Livelaw.in (2020)
• Stakeholders’ responses to the TRAI privacy consultation paper (Part XI of XII): Parity in the data protection norms between TSPs and other communication service providers [with Aakash Khatri and Sushma S. Babu, under supervision from Pushan Dwivedi], Ikigai Law (2018)

Policy Briefs:

• The Global Stocktake’s Impact on Climate Governance, Transparency, and Transitions [with Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger], University of Waterloo Climate Institute (2024)

Research Presentations:

• PhD/ECR Workshop, The Climate Change Regime and Public International Law, Coping with the CoPs: International Environmental Lawyers as Communities of Practice, hosted by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge-Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne (2022).

Research Acknowledgments:

• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Indigenous Peoples and Identity (Cambridge International Law Journal, 2021)
• Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Exploring the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resources Management for Development (2021)
• Nilufer Oral, Common Areas, Global Commons, and Common Concern (The Protection of General Interests in Contemporary International Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry, 2021)
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, A human rights approach to energy: Realizing the rights of billions within ecological limits (Review of European, Comparative, and International Environmental Law, 2021)
• Pavel Sturma, International Law Commission, Fourth Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Succession of States in respect of State Responsibility (2020)
• Justin Rose, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, and Jessica Miranda, Primal Scene to Anthropocene: Narrative and Myth in International Environmental Law (Netherlands International Law Review, 2019)
• Tarunabh Khaitan, Constitutional Directives: Morally-Committed Political Constitutionalism (Melbourne Law Review, 2019)
• Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and DAKSH, Bengaluru, Litigation Landscape of Bengaluru Series 1: Bengaluru Rural Courts (2019)

Editorial Acknowledgments:

• Associate Editor, Review of European, Comparative, and International Environmental Law (2024-Present)
• Managing Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal Blog (2022-2024)
• Managing Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal (2022-2023)
• General Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal (2020-2021)
• Editor, Indian Journal of Constitutional & Administrative Law (2017-2020)
• Editor, GNLU Journal on Law, Development and Politics (2017-2020)
• Associate Editor, GNLU Law and Society Review, Volume I (2019)
• Alexis Group, Alexis Review Volume I (2016)
  • Student Editor, Part I
  • Constitutional Law Editor, Part II , Part III and Part IV

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