Biography

Rahul Mohanty is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School and is an academic in the field of international law. He teaches courses on environmental law, International Courts and dispute settlement, and International Financial Institutions. He has previously taught full-time at the NALSAR University of Law and as a guest faculty at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU). He has previously taught courses such as public international law, international environmental and climate change law, international law and armed conflicts, and theoretical approaches to international law to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

He is a Fellow at the Centre for International Legal Studies of the Jindal Global University, which works to promote research in international law. He is also an Assistant Editor of the Jindal Global Law Review, which is the flagship law journal of the Jindal Global Law School (Scopus-indexed). He is also the convener of the JGLS Research Cluster on the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). 

He is a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law, set up by the International Union on Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Asian Society of International Law.  

He graduated with B.A.LL.B. (Hon.) at the top of his cohort at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad with 13 gold medals. He completed his master’s degree (BCL) at the University of Oxford, where he read International Law related courses. He was a recipient of the HSA Advocates scholarship at the University of Oxford.

Prior to joining academia he has also previously worked at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and ITC Limited, where he dealt with matters pertaining to Insolvency Law and IPR respectively.

His current research interests include global governance (specifically climate governance), international organizations, international courts, international law and the global south, and climate change law.