PHD THESIS

Title: Of Revolution and Reaction: The Decolonization-Era Third-Worldism and the Politics of Knowledge Production in International Law

PhD Supervisor & Co-Supervisor: Fuad Zarbiyev & Grégoire Mallard

Expected completion date: 2026

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Soheil Ghasemi is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), where he has also completed his Master’s degree in International Law. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B.) from the University of Tehran (Iran). His research interests range from public international law to the sociology and history of international law, with a focus on non-Western and peripheral histories of international law throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. His doctoral project constructs a historical sociology of the politics of knowledge production in the discipline of international law through the lens of the decolonization-era Third-Worldist international lawyers and academic institutions in the global periphery.

WORK EXPERIENCES 

Legal Assistant at International Law Commission (2023)

Intern, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2019-2020) Intern

United Nations Information Center (2018-2019)

Fellowships, grants and awards

Law Commission (2023)

Graduate Institute PhD Scholarship (2022-2026)

Vahabzadeh Foundation Scholarship (2020-2022)