About

A short version.

Reaching up for a sprig of flowers on the JNU campus.
Somewhere on the JNU campus — where the story started.

I work where international law meets the slow, stubborn labour of social movements — and where food meets the politics of who gets to feed whom.

My research sits at the intersection of public international law, feminist legal theory, and social-movement studies. I've spent the last decade reading international law against the grain: as a site of resistance, of utopia, of work that's still incomplete.

I hold a PhD in International Legal Studies from the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Before JNU, I read law at the Institute of Law, Nirma University in Ahmedabad, and went on to an M.Phil and an LLM in International Law.

I currently teach at the School of Law, UPES Dehradun. Earlier, I taught at Symbiosis Law School, Pune (2021–2024) and Parul Institute of Law, Vadodara (2021).

Education

  • 2017 — 2021

    PhD, International Legal Studies

    Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) · New Delhi

  • 2021

    LLM, International Law

    Parul University

  • 2013 — 2015

    M.Phil, International Law

    Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) · New Delhi

  • 2008 — 2013

    B.A.LL.B (Hons.)

    Institute of Law, Nirma University · Ahmedabad

Mad'ouk (مَدْعُوك) means experienced, toughened, well-worked. I learned the word late and held onto it. It names something I've been trying to live: the slow painful transformation, the groundwork before launch, the patience of building from the soil up.

Not romantic. Just real.