Bhupinder CHIMNI

Professor Dr. B.S.Chimni retired in 2017 as Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He served as Vice Chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (2004-2006). He has been a visiting professor at Brown and Tokyo Universities and held visiting positions at Harvard, Cambridge, Minnesota, and York universities. He is an associate member of Institut de Droit International, and a Member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. He sits on the editorial board of several international journals including the American Journal of International Law. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of International Law. He is associated with the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), a network that articulates a critique of contemporary international law and institutions from the perspective of the Global South. His areas of research interest include international legal theory, international economic law, and international refugee law. His most recent publications include the second edition of his book International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and a co-edited book (with Siddharth Mallavarapu) International Relations: Essays for the Global South (Pearson, 2012).