Academic

I am an interdisciplinary scholar trained in legal studies as my home discipline. My research interests include Constitutional and Admininistraive Law, Public International Law, Legal Philosophy and Theory, Law, Colonialism and Imperialism, International Organisations, Social Movement Studies, Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS), Education, Comparative Theory and Philosophy, Development Studies focusing on resource conflicts, and Art and Politics. My reasearch approaches these fields from the perspectives of Third World peoples and histories. I have published across these disciplines.

I am Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the School of Law, University of Westminster. Before joining the University of Westminster in early 2007, I taught Law at University of Waikato in New Zealand in the School of Law and Development Studies in the School of Social Sciences. Earlier I taught law in the School of Law, and sociology and human geogropahy in the Departments of Sociology and Geography at the University of Auckland.

Before moving to academia, I was admitted as member to the Bar Council of Maharastra. I practiced law in the High Court of Mumbai specialising in labour rights, constitutional and administrative law, public interest litigation and human rights.

I read philosophy at Elphinstone College, Mumbai,  Law at New Law College, University of Mumbai and PhD in Geography and Law at the University of Auckland.