Profile
PhD, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Neha Mishra is Assistant Professor in the international law department of the Geneva Graduate Institute. She researches international legal issues in the digital economy, focusing on international economic law, data flows/governance, and digital trade, and the interface of international law and emerging digital technologies.
She was previously Lecturer in law at the Australian National University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Neha holds a doctorate degree from the University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis, which investigates how international trade agreements apply to cross-border data flows, was awarded the 2019 Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize for the best thesis in Melbourne Law School, and the 2020 University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis. Neha has also held visiting research positions at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg and the World Trade Organization. She completed her undergraduate degree in law from National Law School Bangalore (India), LL.M. in Public International Law from London School of Economics (UK), and Master’s in Public Policy from National University of Singapore (Singapore). Neha is a dual-qualified lawyer (UK and India) and has previously practiced law with Herbert Smith Freehills LL.P. in London and Economic Laws Practice in Delhi. She also worked with the Government Relations Teams at eBay Singapore and Microsoft Singapore on a wide variety of legal and policy issues related to internet and digital trade regulation. Neha also consults international organisations, the private sector, as well as governments on digital trade and data regulations.
THEMATIC EXPERTISE
- Digital technologies
- Technology governance
- Artificial intelligence & big data
- Trade, WTO & regulation
GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE
- India
- Australia
Selected publications
Monograph
- International Trade Law and Global Data Governance: Aligning Perspectives and Practices (Hart Publishing, 2024), Available open access.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- International Community in the Global Digital Economy: A Case Study of the African Digital Trade Framework (with K Kugler) (2024) 73(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 853-89.
- Data governance and digital trade in India: Losing sight of the forest for the trees? in Anupam Chander and Haochen Sun ed, Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State (Oxford University Press, 2023) 240-63.
- Digital services and digital trade in the Asia pacific: an alternative model for digital integration? (with AMP Valencia), (2023) 31(2) Asia Pacific Law Review 489-512.
- When International Trade Law Meets Data Ethics: A Brave New World, 23(1) NYU Journal of International Law Policy 305-79 (2021).
- Privacy, Cybersecurity and GATS Article XIV: A New Frontier for Trade and Internet Regulation?, 19(3) World Trade Review 341-64 (2020).
- Building Bridges: International Trade Law, Internet Governance and the Regulation of Data Flows, 52 (2) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 463-509 (2019).