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