Surya Deva

Surya Deva
Surya Deva
	Surya Deva (2023).jpg Deva in 2023
Born	1973 (age 52–53)
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Surya Deva (born 1973) is an Indian legal scholar, university professor and human rights expert. Since 1 May 2023, he has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development.

Background and education

Surya Deva studied law at the University of Delhi. There he earned his LL.B. in 1996 and his LL.M. in 1999. He completed his Ph.D. at Sydney Law School in 2007.

Career

Deva worked as a lecturer at the University of Delhi and the National Law Institute of the University of Bhopal. From 2005, he taught and conducted research at the University of Hong Kong, initially as an associate professor, then as an assistant professor, and since October 2021 as an adjunct professor. Since July 2021, he has also been a visiting professor at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Since 2021, Deva has been a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and the director of the Centre for Environmental Law. His research focuses on human rights in the workplace, comparative constitutional law, international human rights, sustainable development, climate change, and gender equality.

Deva gives seminars and lectures worldwide as a visiting lecturer at institutions such as University College (Oxford), the Faculty of Law at the University of Essex, University College London, the British Academy, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Cambridge's Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, UCLA School of Law, Duke Law School, the University of Oslo, the University of Vienna, the University of Cape Town, Heidelberg University, Seoul National University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, Renmin Renmin University of China Law School, the University of Hong Kong, UNSW Faculty Law, and Sydney Law School.

Other roles

since 2014 Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal
2014 to 2022 Elected member of the executive committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law
2016 to 2022 Member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
2021 to 2022 Member of the High-Level Advisory Group on Business and Human Rights at the National Human Rights Commission of India
since 2022 Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law

Voluntary work

Since 1 May 2023, Deva has been the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, succeeding the Egyptian Saad Alfarargi.

Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders? Leiden Journal of International Law, 2023, 36(2), pp. 389–414.
Being Naïve or Putting Business First? Berlin : Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 2021.
The UN Guiding Principles' Orbit and Other Regulatory Regimes in the Business and Human Rights Universe: Managing the Interface Business and Human Rights Journal, 2021, 6(2), pp. 336–351.
Putting Byrnes and Hong Kong in a time machine: human rights in 2021 under the shadow of Beijing's National Security Law Australian Journal of Human Rights, 2021, 27(3), pp. 467–486.
Access to Justice for Socio-Economic Rights Berlin : Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 2017.

References

Surya Deva accessed 12 August 2023
Who We Are accessed 17 August 2023
Mr Surya Deva accessed 11 August 2023

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