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SOHEIL GHASEMI

PhD Researcher in International Law
Teaching Assistant in International Law
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Spoken languages
Persian, English, French
Areas of expertise
  • History and Theory of International Law
  • Critical and Postcolonial Theory
  • Sociology of Law
  • International Law and Political Economy
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • Middle East

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 and a teaching assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), where he also completed his Master’s degree in International Law. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B.) from the University of Tehran, Iran. He is currently affiliated with the Graduate Institute’s Center for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism. He has previously been a visiting researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute of the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests range from public international law to 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.
 

Publications and Works

 

  • Ghasemi, Soheil & Eghbalizarch, Mohammadreza (2023) “Of Capitulations, Capital, and Collateral: Russian Imperial Banking in Late Qajar Persia (1891-1921).” German Yearbook of International Law, vol. 66 (forthcoming).
  • Ghasemi, Soheil (2025) Review of “Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82, written by Umut Özsu.” Asian Journal of International Law vol. 15 (forthcoming).
     

WORK EXPERIENCES 

 

  • Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute’s International Law Department (2024-2025)
  • 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
 

  • Graduate Institute PhD Scholarship (2022-2026)
  • Vahabzadeh Foundation Scholarship (2020-2022)