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Yadav, Aashish

Legal expert on citizenship, statelessness, immigration, asylum and human rights in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh 

I am a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. My research examines how cross-border displacement affects nationality in the context of climate change and disasters. 

Before my PhD, I worked for five years as Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Public Interest Law at Jindal Global Law School in India where I taught courses on international law and human rights. In 2020-21, I taught India’s first ‘Legal Clinic on Citizenship and Statelessness in India’. As the Assistant Director, I collaborated with national and international experts to conduct research on citizenship and statelessness in India.

I am a Guest Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh where I teach an annual seminar on citizenship in India. From 2021-2024, I was a Visiting Professor at Université Catholique de Lille in France where I taught an in-person intensive LLM course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

I also serve on the Advisory Group of the regional coalition Statelessness & Dignified Citizenship (Asia-Pacific) where independent… Read more

Occupation: PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School
Countries of expertise: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan

Yildiz, Ali

Turkish-Belgian lawyer specializing Turkish law, human rights, and political issues, with expertise in transnational repression, persecution of dissidents, prison conditions, and torture in Turkey.

Occupation: Lawyer
Countries of expertise: Turkey