Biography

Prabhash Ranjan is a Professor and Vice Dean at the Jindal Global Law School. He holds a PhD in law from King’s College London, where he studied on a King’s College London doctoral scholarship. Prabhash studied for an intercollegiate LLM programme in London at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and University College London (UCL). He read for his LLM as the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship recipient. Prabhash is also a Visiting Professor at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, and an International Fellow at the National Institute of Military Justice, Washington DC. Previously, Prabhash taught at South Asian University – a university established by the SAARC nations, National Law University Jodhpur and NUJS. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Brookings India; a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University; and a Transnational Summer Law Institute Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

Prabhash sits on the editorial boards of the following international journals: Journal of World Investment and Trade (Brill); Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press); Asia Pacific Law Review (Routledge); and Journal of International Trade Law and Policy (Emerald). He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Indian Law Review (Routledge); one of the editors of the Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law (Springer), and AsianSIL Voices – a blog of the Asian Society of International Law (Cambridge).  

As an external consultant, Prabhash has handled various projects from key UN organisations like the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNSCAP), and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); and also from other prestigious organisations like the Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT; Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; Trade Impact BV; Linklaters – an international law firm; and University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for Advanced Study of India.

Prabhash was a member of the team that drafted the 260th report of the Law Commission of India on the 2015 draft Model Indian bilateral investment treaty. Prabhash also deposed as an expert witness on ‘India and bilateral investment treaties’ before the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs. Prabhash teaches and publishes in international investment law and international trade law and has published close to 70 peer-reviewed research papers in several leading international journals and edited books published by leading global publishers like OUP, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing, Edward Elgar, Springer, Brill/Nijhoff, Kluwer International, etc. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited close to 600 times. He regularly contributes opinion editorials (OP-EDs) in India’s leading national newspapers like The Hindustan Times, The Hindu, and The Indian Express and has already published nearly 200 OP-EDs.

Consultancy

• Project on comparing India-EU Negotiations on Investment Protection, Funded by the Centre for WTO Studies: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, (Rs 3,50,000): 2022 
• Project on Supreme Court and International Law – Funded by the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, (Rs 2,00,000): 2020. 
• Project on Comparative Analysis of Provisions on Investment in US FTAs and India’s BITs – Funded by Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce (Rs 1,20,000): 2015; 
• Project on Comparing Bilateral Investment Treaties of BRICS by CUTS International – Funded by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva (US$ 2000): 2014; 
• Project on Multilateral Agreement on Investment and India – Funded by UN-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UN-ESCAP), Bangkok (US$ 5000): 2014; 
• Project on comparing Investment chapters in Indian and ASEAN FTAs – Funded by the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Ministry of Commerce (Rs 1,50,000 INR): 2012 [Sole Researcher]; 
• Project on understanding the Bilateral Investment Treaties of Six Asian Countries – Funded by United Nations Development Programme, Regional Centre in Colombo (US$ 10,000): 2008-2009 [Sole Researcher]; 
• Project aimed at Understanding the Implications of the SAARC and ASEAN Bilateral Investment Agreements on the policy space of these countries – Funded by United Nations Development Programme, Regional Centre in Colombo (US$ 3000): 2007 [One of Three Researchers]; 
• Project on studying the position of South Asian Countries in the on-going negotiations on the Anti-Dumping Agreement as part of the WTO – Funded by Oxfam GB in India (US$ 2000) (equivalent in Indian rupees): 2006 [Sole Researcher].