Prof. Aman

Select Articles & Book Chapters:

• Aman, Is the ‘smallest unit of time’ in Kashmir ‘a siege’? – An attempt to understand metrics to acknowledge, measure and address violence in international law in Kashmir under Siege: Life, Politics and Resistance after 2019 (Mirza Saaib Beg and Shubh Mathur Eds. : Rowman & Littlefield) [Forthcoming]
• Aman, “”Tuhindi Article”” (“”The Articles Were Yours””), VRÜ/World Comparative Law, Issue 4-2023 [Forthcoming]
• Aman, Thejesh GN, Krushna Ranaware, and Kanika Shama, Of Denial and Data: Deaths Due to India’s COVID-19 National Lockdown, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue No. 23 (2021)
• Aman, Shareholder Claims by Substitution for companies’- The Scope and Status in international law post Diallo, 2(2) NLUJ Law Review 113 (2014).
• Aman, Ashutosh Agarwal, Manufacturing Confusion: BPL Lists in Uttar Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XLIX No. 14 (2014).

Reports:

• Financial Inclusion of Refugees in India: A study on the practical access to banks and financial systems, December 2019 (assisted drafting as part of a study at MAP).
  International refugee and human rights law in application to refugee policy in Tanzania, July 2013 (assisted drafting as part of a study with the Oxford Pro Bono Publico, Oxford)

Short Commentaries:

• Aman: “Tuhindi Article” (“The Articles Were Yours”),VerfBlog (December 29, 2022)
• Aman, May it please [no moot] Court – Part I, International Law and the Global South (January 26, 2022)
• Aman, May it please [no moot] Court – Part II, International Law and the Global South (January 26, 2022)
• Aman, The Other Story – Part I, International Law and the Global South (July 7, 2021)
• Aman, The Other Story – Part II, International Law and the Global South (July 7, 2021)
• Aman, Thejesh GN, Krushna Ranaware, and Kanika Shama ,India’s Manufactured Amnesia Over Its Covid-19 Lockdown Deaths, Article 14, (March 23, 2021)
• Aman, The Right Law for the Wronged People, The Wire (August 17, 2020).
• Aman and Hamsa Vijayaraghavan, The Illusion of Consent – Voluntary Repatriation or Refoulement?, International Law Blog (September 25, 2019)
• Aman, Limited Vocabulary, Unlimited Jingoism: India’s Response to UN Report on Kashmir, The Wire (July 10, 2019). 10.
• Aman, Militant bodies in Kashmir: Finding humanity in a state of many exceptions, The Leaflet (October 15, 2018)
• Aman, Why Article 35A matters: Of demography and the right of self-determination in Indian-administered Kashmir, The Leaflet (August 15, 2018)
• Aman, India’s transformation to a cashless society: what does this mean for the financial inclusion of refugees?, Commonwealth Foundation (June 27, 2018)
• Aman, Five Myths and Misconceptions About the UN Report on Kashmir, The Wire (June 26, 2018). 14. Aman and Roshni Shankar, Identity in Exile, Indian Express, (May 23, 2018)
• Aman, Rohingya crisis: Indian Govt’s deportation plan is ethically egregious, reflects disregard for human rights, Firstpost (August 7, 2017).
• Aman, International Court of Justice to hear Kulbhushan Jadhav case today: Is India counting its chickens too early?, Firstpost (May 15, 2017).
• Aman, Kulbhushan Jadhav hearing at the ICJ: What to make of key arguments made by India, Pakistan, Firstpost, (May 16, 2017)
• Aman, Alignment of ‘Period of Investigation’ in AD and CVD investigations to avoid double remedy, at Lakshmisri.com (November 9, 2016)
• Aman, Monitoring of Steel Imports in USA – consistency under WTO laws, at Lakshmisri.com (April 5, 2016)
• Aman, Naz and Notional Equality, at Kafila.org (Decemeber 26, 2013)

• Aman is an Associate Professor of Legal Practice at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). He is currently on leave to pursue his doctoral studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. He has completed his undergraduate law degree from the National Law University, Jodhpur (2012) [recipient of ‘Trilok Chand Mangilal Sancheti Gold Medal’ for securing the highest CGPA amongst the students of B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) 2012 at NLU, Jodhpur], and subsequently read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford (2013). At JGLS, he is also a Senior Fellow at the “Centre for International Legal Studies.”
• Aman has also served as the Faculty Director, Moot Court Society. In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities, he has also been an advisor to several JGLS teams participating at Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
• Aman has previously worked with the Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji at the Trial Chambers at the International Criminal Court (on the Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme Award) [2013-2014]; in the WTO & International Trade Team at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys [2014-2017]; and has been involved as lawyer/researcher at several human rights organisations/initiatives in Delhi and Srinagar [since 2017].
• Building upon his previous experience and exposure with human rights work, Aman’s current work is situated at intersections of law, violence, power, and social movements. It primarily engages with, and draws direction from critical approaches to international law. Some longer forms of published work have found home in Economic and Political Weekly, NLUJ Law Review, World Comparative Law and an edited volume of essays by Rowman & Littlefield. Aman has also written for shorter commentaries that can be accessed on VerfBlog, International Law and the Global South, International Law Blog, The Indian Express, The Wire, Article 14, Firstpost, The Leaflet, and Kafila.

• Delivered the Core Lecture on “Introduction to International Human Rights Law” and lead seminar on the Right to Self-Determination in the online certificate course on “International Human Rights Law and Kashmir: Prospects and Challenges, 2022” by the Oxford Kashmir Forum.
• Presented paper on “Law’s Making and Breaking of Refugees: Lawfare and Rohingya Refugees in India” (co-authored) at 5th Annual Conference, Refugee Law Initiative (June 2021)
• Delivered lecture on “Limits of Constitutional Law: Kashmir and permanent emergencies” at NLUJ, organised by Constitutional Law Society, NLU-Jodhpur (October 2020)
• Panelist, Dispatches (Episode 10) – Polis Project on documenting of the lockdown deaths in India in 2020 (May 2020).
• Organised (at MAP) and participated in “The Emerging Narrative of Forced Migration in South Asia” (January 2019).
• Participated in the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), Short Course on Advocacy and Refugee Rights, Bangkok (November 2018).

• ‘JGU Research Excellence Award’ (2021)
•  ‘Global Justice Internship Programme Award’ from the Oxford Law Faculty (2013).
•  ‘Oxford Pro-Bono Publico Internship Fund Award’ from Oxford Pro Bono Publico (2013) [could not avail].
•  ‘Trilok Chand Mangilal Sancheti Gold Medal’ for securing the highest CGPA amongst the students of B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) 2012 at NLU, Jodhpur

Critical Approaches to International Law, Critical Legal Theory, Legal Education, Law and Violence, Law and Social Movements

• Core Courses – Public International Law [Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021 (Course Co-ordinator), Spring 2022 and Spring 2023 (Course Co-ordinator)]; International Trade Law [Spring 2020]; and Labour Law I [Spring 2020].
• Elective Courses – International Law of Disputed Territories [Fall 2020, Spring 2021] Kashmir, Counterinsurgency & International Law: Armed Conflict & Permanent Emergencies [Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023]; and Conflict and International Migration [Fall 2022, Fall 2023]; Hope in the Law Classroom [Fall 2023].