South Asian University, Rajpur Road, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, 110068
Profile
Ravindra Pratap is Professor and Dean, Faculty of Legal Studies, and Professor Incharge, Legal Affairs Division, South Asian University.
Qualifications
PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2002.
Postgraduate Course, International Trade Law, jointly from the University Institute of European Studies, Turin, University of Turin, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT and ILO, 2000.
LLM, European Business Law, jointly from the Universities of Barcelona, Bologna, Essex, Konstanz, LUISS Guido Carli, Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Nijmegen, 1999.
MPhil, International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1998.
MA, Political Science and International Relations, Allahabad University, 1995.
LLB, Allahabad University, 1991.
Teaching Interests
International Law
International Trade Law
International Dispute Settlement
Law of International Organizations
Legal Interpretation
Legal Systems of South Asia
Select Publications
"Facilitating the Participation of African Countries in WTO Dispute Settlement: Exploring the Possibility of Awarding Litigation Costs" (2024) 12 AALCO Journal of International Law 47.
“Geography and Legal Culture of ICJ judges in their Consideration of Erga Omnes Obligations” The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence2022 (Oxford, 2023) 197.
“The Settlement of the Rohingya Dispute: Implicating Provisional Measures” (2022) 20 Bangladesh Journal ofLaw 37.
“WTO’s Engagement with National Law: Three Illustrations from India” (2021) 18 Brazilian Journal ofInternational Law 193.
“Cow vigilantism and India’s evolving rights framework” (2020) Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 1.
“The Role of ICJ Procedure in the Emergence and Evolution of Erga Omnes Obligations” The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence2019 (Oxford, 2020) 211.
“Building Peace over Water in South Asia: The Watercourses Convention and SAARC” (2018) 4 Athens Journal of Law 7.
“Provisional Measures in the “Enrica Lexie” Case’ (2017) 16 Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 413.
“The First WTO Appellate Body Report on Regional Adaptation under the SPS Agreement”, 13 Manchester Journal of International Economic Law (2016) 81.
“Affirming Cambodia’s sovereignty over “stones” that “express” “our essence”: ICJ’s interpretation of its Judgment in the Temple of Preah Vihear Case”, 3 Cambodia Law and Policy Journal (December 2014) 79.
“Clean air, federalism and democracy”, XLIX Economic and Political Weekly (2014) 20.
“DSU Reforms: The Soto Report”, 51 Indian Journal of International Law (2011) 438.
Interpretation of Statutes: A Reader (New Delhi, 2010), pp 322+xii, ISBN 978-81-7831-228-6.
“The Implementation of Child Labour Standard in Asia: Overview and Selected Issues”, in Giuseppe Nesi, Luca Nogler and Marco Pertile, eds., Eliminating Child Labour: The Plight of the ILO in a Globalized World (London/Burlington: Ashgate, 2008) 369.
“India and DSU Reform Negotiations: A Critical Appraisal”, in Byttebier & Van der Borght, eds., WTO Obligations and Opportunities: Challenges of Implementation (London: Cameron May, 2007) 367.
“International Humanitarian Law: India’s Attitude”, in Mani, ed., International Humanitarian Law in South Asia (Oxford, 2007) 70.
“WTO IPR Jurisprudence: The First Decade”, 2 Indraprastha Technology Law Journal (2006) 152.
Narmada Bachao Aandolan v Union of India, Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, 2005.
“Sovereign Economic Freedom and Interests of Other States”, in Patel, ed., India and International Law (The Hague: Brill, 2005) 127.
India at the WTO Dispute Settlement System (Foreword by Professor Petros C. Mavroidis) (New Delhi, 2004), pp 499+xxviii, ISBN 81-7827-100-1.
“Trade and Environment: Trends in International Dispute Settlement”, 42 Indian Journal of International Law (2002) 451.
“Nuclear Arms Control Treaties and Non-Parties”, 39 Indian Journal of International Law (1999) 626.
