Currently working as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Public Interest Law at O.P. Jindal Global University in India. The Expert teaches courses on international law, human rights, and citizenship. Their work addresses issues of asylum, refugee status, nationality/citizenship, and statelessness. Their latest engagement has been in the case of R v Budlakoti (Superior Court of Ontario, Canada) where they provided a legal brief on Indian citizenship, immigration, and human rights law.
The Expert is a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille where they teach a Master’s course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and a guest lecturer at the University of Edinburgh where they teach a module on citizenship law in India. The Expert also serves on the Advisory Group of the organisation Nationality for All to form a regional alliance on nationality and statelessness.
Prior to this, they assisted Afghan refugees in New Delhi with the UNHCR asylum applications and worked with human rights organisations.
Asylum, immigration, citizenship, nationality, statelessness, and general human rights related work in Indian and Canadian courts on issues of determination of Indian citizenship, citizenship revocation/deprivation, illegal detention, due process violations, refugee status, persecution, exile, political dissidents, vulnerable persons, sexual and gender-based violence, sexuality, human trafficking, visa fraud, modern slavery, rule of law, and civil liberties.
- ‘Refugee Laws, Politics, Aesthetics: A Southern Reader’ (Editor; forthcoming book with Routledge)
- ‘Reconceptualising “Genuine Link”: a way to claim the right to nationality in Assam’ – forthcoming book chapter in ‘Nationality Struggles in the 21st Century and its Social Costs in Asia’ (project led by Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne and Centre for Asian Legal Exchange, Nagoya University)
- ‘Kiran Gupta v The State Election Commission & Ors Letters Patent Appeal No. 139 of 2020 in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case no. 19109 of 2019, Patna HC’ Jindal Global Law Review, Vol. 12(1), 2021
- ‘On the verge: Revocation and denial of citizenship in India’ in ‘Revocation of Citizenship: The New Policies of Conditional Membership’ EUI Working Papers (January 2021)
- Research Supervisor on ‘International Law and Due Process: Evaluating the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam’ project
- ‘The NRC in Assam doesn’t just violate human rights of millions – it also breaks international law’ Scroll.in (January 2021)
- ‘What India Legally Owes 1.9 Million People Held As Non-Citizens’ Article-14.com (January 2021)
- ‘Securing Citizenship: India’s legal obligations towards precarious citizens and stateless persons’ (September 2020; Research Supervisor and co-author)