Prof Prabhakar Singh
Professor (Dr.) Prabhakar Singh is a legal scholar and an academic from India. He currently is a Professor and Executive Director for the Centre for International Legal Studies at the Jindal Global Law School. His areas of interest include international legal history and international legal theory.
Early life and education
He completed his B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) in 2007 from National Law Institute University, Bhopal, LL.M. in 2009 from the University of Barcelona, and Ph.D. in 2016 from National University of Singapore. He was President's Graduate Fellow in Singapore during the years 2011-2015.
Awards
In 2012, he won the SATA Prize (Now the DILA Prize) for his article in the Asian Yearbook of International Law. He won the Asian Society of International Law's Young scholar award (2019-2021) for his article on Semi-colonialism, imperialism and international law.
Contributions
Professor Prabhakar has taught short courses at the Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia; Airlangga University, Indonesia and at Sciences Po (Nancy Campus), France. Besides, he has been a lecturer at the Transnational Law Summer Institute, King's College, London during 2016; at Foreign Services Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, India during 2016; and at SLS-IEL Collective Teaching Workshop, University of Essex during 2020. He also was the guest teacher during 2019 at Department of Jurisprudence, University of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Lectures
He was the speaker for the Third BRICS conference at the University of São Paulo, Brazil in October 2019. In 2019, he has been the speaker at Institute of China Studies, New Delhi; at Berlin Potsdam Research Group, Potsdam, Germany; at Asian Society of International Law Interest Group on Investment Law, at the Seventh Biennial Asian Society of International Law Conference, Manila, The Philippines; and at Conference on Foreign Relations Law in India, University of Jena, Germany.
Publications
He has co-authored a book and has written several book chapters, book reviews and about 30 journal articles. He also penned pieces for magazines and newspapers, including The Telegraph, Deccan Herald, Mekong Review, The Statesman. Additionally, he has written poems and short stories for The Bombay Review, Café Dissensus and Economic & Political Weekly.
Books
He is the co-editor of the book, Critical International Law: Postrealism, Postcolonialism and Transnationalism published from Oxford University Press in 2014.
Articles
Professor Prabhakar has authored several journal articles including:
1. Indian Princely States and the Nineteenth Century transformation of the Law of Nations, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Vol. 11 (2020) pp. 365-87.
2. Spinning Yarns from Moonbeams: A Jurisprudence of Statutory Interpretation, Statute Law Review, Vol. 41 (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmy035
3. Prolegomenon to a Southern Jurisprudence, Liverpool Law Review, Vol. 40 (2019) pp. 155.
4. Of International Law, Semi-colonial Siam, and Imperial Ghosts, Asian Journal of International Law, Vol. 9 (2019) pp. 46–74.
5. More Norms, Less Justice: Refugees, the Republic and Everyone in Between, Liverpool Law Review, Vol.39 (2018) pp 123–150.
6. A Lawyer’s Account of the ‘Death of Sanskrit’ Thesis, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 52, No. 38 (2017) pp. 26-29.
7. Vernacular Nations, Westphalia, and the Many Lives of States in Asia, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 51, No. 25 (2016) 22.
8. The Rough and Tumble of International Courts and Tribunals, Indian Journal of International Law, Vol. 55 (2015) pp 329–366.
9. Sino-Indian Attitudes to Public International Law: of Nations, States and colonial Hangovers, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 3 (2015) pp. 348-374.
10. India Before and After the Right of Passage Case, Asian Journal of International Law, Vol. 5 (2015) p. 175.
11. No Roses Without Thorns: Global Consumers of Cut Flowers as Political Actors, Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agricultural & Natural Resources Law, Vol. 6 (2013-14) 23.
12. Mercantile Metaconstitutionalism: Interpretation of the WTO Treaty and Developing Countries, German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 55 (2012) 462.
13. Why use Constitutions to Arrest International Law? Asian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 16 (2012) 87.
14. Indian International law: From an Apologist to a subaltern Protagonist, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (2010) 79-103.
15. The Scandal of Enlightenment and the Birth of Disciplines: Is International Law A Science? International Community Law review, Vol. 12 (2010) pp. 5-34.
16. What Can International Law Learn from Indian Mythology, Hinduism and History, Journal of East Asia and International Law, Vol. 2 (2010) p. 239.
17. Colonised’s Madness, Colonisers’Modernity and International Law, Journal of East Asia & International Law (2010) pp. 67-97.
18. Macbeth’s Three Witches: Capitalism, Common Good, and International Law, Oregon Review of International Law, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 47-84.
19. International Law as Intimate Enemy, Oregon Review of International Law, Vol. 14, 2012.
20. From Narcissistic Positive International law to Natural Universal International Law: The Dialectics of Absentee Colonialism, African Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 16 (2008) pp. 56-82.
21. Austin’s Positivism: Is it a Retrospective Investigation of Contractualist’s Sovereign? Global Jurist Topics, Vol 6, No. 2 (2006).
Book Reviews
1. Book Review of Lauren Benton & Lisa Ford, Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850 (Harvard University Press, 2016) and Andrew Fitzmaurice, Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), European Journal of International Law, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2017), pp. 975–986.
2. Book Review of The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law by Anne Orford, Florian Hoffmann (eds) with Martin Clark. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), European Journal of International Law, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2017), pp. 329– 338.
3. Book Review of Martins Paparinskis, The International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment (Oxford University Press, 2013), Australian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 32 (2014).
4. Book Review of Ingo Venzke, How Interpretation Makes International Law (Oxford University Press, NY, 2013), Asian Journal of International Law, Vol. 5 (2015).
5. Book Review of Hugh Thirlway, The Sources of International Law (Oxford University Press, NY, 2014), Indian Journal International Law, Vol. 55 (2015).
Book Chapters
1. “Finding Foreign Relations Law in India’, in, Helmut Aust and Thomas Kleinlein (eds) Bridges and Boundaries: The Various Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021, forthcoming).
2. “The General Principles of Law recognized by civilised nations” in, Antony Anghie et al, The TWAIL Handbook (Edward Elgar, 2020, forthcoming).
3. The private life of Transnational law: Reading Jessup from the Postcolony” in, Peer Zumbansen (ed), The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup's Bold Proposals (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020) 419.
4. “Reading RP Anand in the Postcolony: Between Appropriation and Resistance”, in Jochen von Bernstorff & Philipp Dann (ed.) The Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era (Oxford University Press, New York, 2019) 297-317.
5. “Derecho internacional de la responsabilidad del Estado hoy”, in, Rene Urueña (ed.,) Derecho internacional, Poder y límites del derecho en la sociedad global (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, 2015) pp. 443.
Journal editing
In the year 2019, he was the guest editor for Issue 3 of Volume 40 of the Liverpool Law Review on Jurisprudence. For the years 2015 to 2019, he was the assistant editor for the Indian Journal of International Law, For the years 2013 to 2015, he was the associate editor for Asian Yearbook of International Law. For the years 2010 to 2011, he was the co-Editors-in-Chief for the Jindal Global Law Review.
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