South Asian University ,Rajpur Rd, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110068
Profile
Associate Professor- Research at the Centre for Studies in Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Industrial training consultancy with the KAF Foundation wing of the PHD Chambers of Commerce, New Delhi and its offices in India.
Qualifications
PhD from Osmania University Hyderabad , in 2006
Ll.M. from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam , in 1994
Research Interests
Legal theory
Private International Law
International Economic Law
International Arbitration
Social Exclusion Studies,
Feminist writings, theories and commentaries on gender rights regimes with reference to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora
Recent Publications
Choice of Court Agreements: Selected Common-Law Jurisdictions and Indian Laws Compared—Time for the Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements? (2021) 30 Journal of Transnational Law and Policy 1 (co-author: Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit)
Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and the Public Policy Exception – Revisiting the New York Convention (Springer, 2021) (with Bruno Zeller & Gautam Mohanty)
The Faux Pas of the Automatic Stay Under the Indian Arbitration Act, 1996 – The HCC Dictum, Two Cherry Doctrine, and Beyond (2021) 21(1) Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 195 (co-author: Gautam Mohanty)
“CISG, Article 42 – Third Party IPR Claims in Transnational Commerce – Addressing the Indeterminacy” in Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit & Sai Ramani Garimella (eds)CISG 30 Years On: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (A Commemorative Volume Celebrating 30 Years Of The CISG (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019) (with Dharmita Prasad)
“India” in Anselmo Reyes (ed.) Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters in Asia (Hart-Bloomsbury, 2019)
Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (A Commemorative Volume Celebrating 30 Years Of The CISG (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019) (Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit, co-editor)
Interrogating International Law and Scholarship for the Missing Narratives on Religious Misogyny in South Asia (2019) 10(2) Jindal Global Law Review 223 (co-author: Parthiban B)
Interrogating Third Party Funding in Investment Arbitration – The Need for Regulation in the UK and India (2019) 16(2) Manchester Journal of International Economic Law 213
The Emergence of International Commercial Courts in India: A Narrative for Ease of Doing Business? (2019) 12(1) Erasmus Law Review 111 (co-author: MZ Ashraful)
“Emergency Arbitrator Awards: Addressing Enforceability Concerns through National Law and the New York Convention” in Katia Fach Gómez and Ana Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez (eds.) 60 Years of the New York Convention: Key Issues and Future Challenges (Wolters Kluwer, 2019) 67- 83 (with Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit)
Private International Law (Central Law Agency, Allahabad, India (2014) Revised 2017.
Intervention Against Marginalization in the Subaltern Space, (2014) 2(1) Journal of the Forum for EthnoGeoPolitics 7
Normative structure for Criminalizing Corruption – the South Asian experience, (2014) 2(1) International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 46
Private International Law, ISBN 9789382676447, Central Law Agency, Allahabad, India. Sai Ramani Garimella (2014)
The BALCO Rationale – A Shift to the Territoriality Principle in International Commercial Arbitration, (2014) 4 CNLU Law Journal 26
Third Party Funding in International Arbitration – Issues and Challenges in Asian Jurisdictions, (2014) 3(1) AALCO Journal of International Law 45
Emerging Public Policy Contours: Is Indian Arbitration moving closer to the Asian scenario? (2013) 2(1) AALCO Journal of International Law 55
International Normative Regime against Corruption and India’s Compliance, (2013) 21(2) Review of Politics, 58
The Bangladesh War Crimes Trials Strengthening the Normative Structure, (2013) 13 Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization 27
“Hinduism as a Philosophy of life and its Relationship to Violence” in Andrew Gluck (ed) Religion, Fundamentalism and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Study (University of Scranton, PA, 2010) Library of Congress Catalog Number 9781589662049
Arbitration Reforms in India – The Case for Third Party Funding of Arbitral Claims (2018) 15(2) Transnational Dispute Management 1 https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=2558
Caste-based Violence – The Indeterminacy of the Law, (2016) 58(2) Journal of the Indian Law Institute, 234
Enforcement of Multi-tier Dispute Resolution Clauses: Contemporary Judicial Opinion, (2016) 24(1) IIUM Law Journal 157 (co-author: Nizamuddin A. Siddique) https://journals.iium.edu.my/iiumlj/index.php/iiumlj/article/view/228/193
Environmental Dispute Resolution, ADR Methods and the PCA Arbitration Rules, (2016) 3 ILI Law Review, 201
International Parental Child Abduction and India–Attempting Engagement with the Hague Convention, (2018) 19(1) Australian Journal of Asian Law 1-20 (co-author: Stellina Jolly)
International Parental child abduction and the fragmented law in India – Time to accede to the Hague Convention? (2017) 17 Macquarie Law Journal 37 http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MqLawJl/2017/3.html
Private International Law: South Asian State Practice (Springer, 2017) (Stellina Jolly, co- editor)
Seat-centric Arbitration: Decoding the Indian Law on the Choice of a Foreign Seat (2017) 6 Young Arbitration Review 29
United Nations Convention Against Corruption, 2005 and India – Mapping India’s Compliance, (2018) 7 International Journal for Legal Studies and Research 158 (co-author: Ashfaquzzaman Chowdhry) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S5_5RJ9bIt4_7dF-rZaJIjP7Mxi2HvHU/view
“Balancing Conflicting Interests – the Judicial response” in G.Manoher Rao (ed.) Constitutional Development through Judicial Process (Asia Law House, 2006) 214
“Commercial Courts in India – All for Ease of Doing Business” in Xandra Kramer and Jon Sorabji (eds.) International Business Courts (Eleven International Publishing, 2019) (with MZ Ashraful)
“Issues of Jurisdiction, Choice of Law and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: An Indian Perspective” in Sai Ramani Garimella & Stellina Jolly (eds.) Private international law: South Asian State Practice (Springer, 2017)
“OBOR and the Syncretic Private International Law Rules in India: Time for accession to harmonised legal regimes” in Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit & Sai Ramani Garimella (eds) China’s One Belt One Road Initiative and Private International Law (Routledge, 2018)
“The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption – Successes and Challenges” in Thomas John, Rishi Gulati and Ben Koehler (eds.)Elgar Companion on the Hague Conference on Private International Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) forthcoming
Awards & Honours
Open Banking in a Fragmented Data World: The Complexity of Jurisdiction The University of Sydney, Australia – India Development Fund (IDF) (2020-2021) Mapping the challenges of privacy and security protection in data outsourcing from Australia to India and the jurisdiction-related concerns in cross-border digital transactions often claimed to be “de-territorialized”. Grant value – 10,000 AUD (co-awarded research grant with Prof. Jeanne Huang)
Visiting Senior Research Associate, Research Centre on Private International Law in Emerging Countries, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. November 2020 – October 2023. https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/law/Pages/Institute-for-Private-International-Law-in-Africa.aspx
Research Consultancy for University of Portsmouth- IMC Worldwide project on Impact of Covid-19 on Modern Slavery in Bangladesh and India, University of Portsmouth, UK (DFID, UK funded project)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Fellow, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Observer, Phase II, Project on Asian Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Asian Business Law Institute, Singapore
Educational Grant for Capacity building – Civil Society Laws in South Asia, Global Civil Society Legal Enabling Environment Project 2 (LEEP II) Grant value – 10,118 USD (co-lead investigator)
Subject Expert – Private International Law, Lecture Database on different aspects of private international law, especially issues affecting the diaspora Government of India, MHRD-NME’s ICT- e-Content Development Project with Osmania University, Hyderabad and EMMRC, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
