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Praggya SURANA 11.2024

Praggya SURANA

PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Graduate Institute
Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School
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PHD THESIS

 

Title: Resisting Legally Entrenched Hierarchies

PhD Supervisor: Nico Krisch

Expected completion date: 2026

Her thesis studies the impact of the changing geopolitical global order on international legal norms. It uses an interdisciplinary approach drawn from sociology, international relations, and international law to explore the discursive possibilities available to smaller states to challenge legal inequalities. Her research interests include security law, environmental law, and power relations within international law.
 

Profile


Praggya Surana is a PhD candidate in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, a teaching assistant at the international law department, and a research associate with the Global Governance Centre. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School at OP Jindal Global University, India. Previously, she has been a research assistant for the SNSF Ambizione project, Law by Colour Code: Locating Race and Racism in International Law. 
Her perspective on the politics of international law has also been influenced by her research fellowship at the inter-disciplinary group, KFG- International Law? Rise or Decline, Berlin, and her research at the Indian army’s think tank, the Centre for Land Warfare Studies. She has been educated at National Law School of India University, Bangalore (B.A.-LL.B. honours), and Harvard Law School (LL.M).

 

Publications and Works
 

  • The expansion of constitutional protections through international law, in H.P. Aust, H. Kreiger and F. Lange (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373167.00019. 
  • Contributor, MSI Integrity, Not Fit-for-Purpose: The Grand Experiment of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Global Governance, July 2020. 
  • Occasional Paper: China Shaping Tibet for Strategic Leverage, 2018, Centre for Land Warfare Studies (‘CLAWS’) Manekshaw Paper No. 70/2018, Knowledge World Publishers, ISSN 23939729. 

     

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES 
 

  • Assistant Professor, OP Jindal Global University, India
  • Law and Society Association

 

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

  • Fellow, KFG- The International Rule of Law? Rise or Decline, Berlin Potsdam Research Group
  • Graduate Institute Scholarship
  • Michael and Shadia Schneider Scholarship  
  • Harvard Graduate Student Scholarship 

 

AFFILIATIONS
 

  • Practice of law in India
  • Practice of law in New York