Academic Writing

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Blog: Courting International Law

This blog is an attempt to examine the manner in which Governments around the world treat International Law standards. The ambition is to shed light on the inconsistent treatment of commonly agreed yardsticks, while also appreciating where States take active steps toward complying with their obligations under International Law.

Books:

• William Nunes and Tejas Rao, eds., Referendums in International Law: An Analysis, Ruby Press Co. (2019)

Journal Articles:

• Crimes of Aggression: The Path Forward [co-authored with Ujval Mohan] (Selected Essays on the Law of Criminal Aggression: Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, Punjab, 2016)
• Space Debris Mitigation, Nuclear Resources & Challenges of the Environmental Law of Outer Space (Lex Terra, 2016)

Book Reviews:

• Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger et al. (eds.), Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation. Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions (Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, 2021)

Casenotes:

• Sharma v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. (Oxford Reporter on International Law, 2020)

Columns and Blogposts:

• Opinio Juris, Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Querying #ILTwitter as a Tweetling [co-authored with Raghavi Viswanath] (2022)
• University of Waterloo, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change, At COP26, experts make a commitment to scale-up climate law and governance tenfold by 2024 (2021)
• Balsillie School of International Affairs, Leading Experts at COP26 Commit to Scale-Up Climate Law & Governance Capacity Worldwide Tenfold from 600 to 6,000 by 2024 (2021)
• Bennett Institute for Public Policy, CoP26 Outcomes and Reasons for Hope [co-authored with Freedom-Kai Phillips] (2021)
• Manupatra, Playing The Devil’s Advocate: How the Government may just pass a Test Under Article 21 while Mandating the Aarogya Setu Application [co-authored with Radhika Parthasarathy] (2020)
• Livelaw.in: Coordinating Judgements: Ensuring Certainty In The Law [co-authored with Kartikeya Sharma] (2020)
• Livelaw.in: Court & Contempt: Dissent From The Bar [co-authored with Kartikeya Sharma] (2020)
• Ikigai Law, 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 [co-authored with Aakash Khatri and Sushma S. Babu, under supervision from Pushan Dwivedi] (2018)

Research Acknowledgments:

• Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Indigenous Peoples and Identity (Cambridge International Law Journal, 2021)
• Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Exploring the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resources Management for Development (2021)
• Dr. Nilufer Oral, Common Areas, Global Commons, and Common Concern (The Protection of General Interests in Contemporary International Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry, 2021)
• Dr. 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)
• Dr. Pavel Sturma, International Law Commission, Fourth Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Succession of States in respect of State Responsibility (2020)
• Dr. Justin Rose, Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, and Dr. Jessica Miranda, Primal Scene to Anthropocene: Narrative and Myth in International Environmental Law (Netherlands International Law Review, 2019)
• Professor 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:

• Managing Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal Blog (2021-Present)
• 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

Teaching Experience and Course Materials:

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Masters in Public Policy, Case Study Seminars (February 2022)
• Convenor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, International Law and Global Governance in the Commons (December 2021 – February 2022)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom, International  2021 Environmental Law (October – December 2021)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom, Family Law (October – July 2022)
• Guest Lecturer, Jilin University, China, Summer Course on Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (July 2021)
• Lecturer, Inventure Academy, Bangalore, India, Constitutional Values and Civics (February – July 2020)