School of Law, Gender and Media
Professor Sundhya Pahuja
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Key information
- Roles
- School of Law, Gender and Media Professorial Research Associate Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law Member
- Department
- School of Law, Gender and Media
- Email address
- s.pahuja@unimelb.edu.au
Biography
Sundhya’s work engages with the practice, and praxis, of international law through critical history, political philosophy, political-economy and postcolonial theories. Sundhya's most recent book, Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was awarded the 2012 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit. She has also recently published two edited collections; Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations (Routledge, 2012) (with Ruth Buchanan and Stewart Motha); and Events: The Force of International Law (Routledge, 2011) (with Fleur Johns and Richard Joyce). She is currently working on International Development, a monograph with Luis Eslava and Laura Griffin in the Routledge series, Critical Approaches to Law. Sundhya concurrently holds a Chair in International Law at the University of Melbourne.
Research interests
International law, Law and Development, Law and Globalisation, Legal Theory, International law and History, International law and the Cold War, International Economic Law, International Monetary Fund, World Bank
