Aman

Aman

PhD Candidate
B.A., LL. B (Hons) (National Law University, Jodhpur, India); Bachelor of Civil Law (University of Oxford, UK)

Aman is a PhD candidate at the School of Global and Public Law, Faculty of Law & Justice. His project is interested to find what limits appear in international law’s framing of debates and shaping of contexts; and what law could learn from a critical attention to demands of unrepresented groups and other political entities having stakes in such debates. He is situating the inquiry around the workings of international law in/on Jammu and Kashmir around questions of sovereignty and decolonisation between 1940-early 1960s. His previous training in law has been at the National Law University, Jodhpur, India [B.A., LL. B (Hons), recipient of Trilok Chand Mangilal Sancheti Gold Medal) and at the University of Oxford (BCL, 2013).

Aman is currently on leave from O.P. Jindal Global University [JGU], India where he is currently an Associate Professor of Legal Practice and a Senior Fellow at the “Centre for International Legal Studies”. At JGU, Aman has primarily taught a core course in Public International Law and a few elective courses interrogating law’s relation with counterinsurgency, contested sovereignties, and international migration. In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities, he has also been an advisor to JGLS teams participating at Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition from 2018-2022.

Prior to joining JGU in 2020 as full-time employee, Aman has contributed to work groups/organisations in Srinagar and New Delhi in their litigation, advocacy, research, documentation, and policy making efforts around human rights law, humanitarian law, and refugee law. Aman has previously also worked with the Customs, WTO & International Trade Team at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys; and with Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji at the Trial Chambers at the International Criminal Court (on the Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme Award).

Research Topic

Can the subaltern speak law: an exercise in and on international law

Supervisor/s: Prof. Fleur Johns (School of Global and Public Law, Faculty of Law, and Justice) and Prof. Ben Golder (School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice)

Areas of Interest: Critical Approaches to International Law; Critical Legal Theory; Critical Pedagogy; Human Rights Law; Law and Migration; Law and Violence; Law and Social Movements.