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Sundhya Pahuja

December 7, 2017

Sundhya Pahuja is the Director of Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH). Her research focuses on the history, theory and practice of international law in both its political and economic dimensions. She has a particular interest in international law and the relationship between North and South, and the practice, and praxis, of development and international law. Sundhya has been awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit (2012), the Woodward Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2014) and a Fulbright Senior Scholar award which she took up in 2016 at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2017, Sundhya will hold a fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) in South Africa. Sundhya has been invited to give the 2018 Lauterpacht Lectures at the University of Cambridge.