Biography
Tejas Rao is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Land Economy & C-EENRG, University of Cambridge, where he is a Nehru Trust Scholar, and Research Assistant at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. He is also Manager at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.
His research examines narratives and the political economy of international law-making, with a specific focus on communities of practice and the Rio Treaties. He has previously taught at SOAS, University of London, and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and worked with members of the United Nations International Law Commission.
He holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge (as JN Tata Scholar), and a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the Gujarat National Law University. With a cross-cutting interest across the Sustainable Development Goals, he volunteers time as Operations Co-Lead with Project EduAccess, which aims to improve the representation in higher education of marginalized communities in South Asia by providing application mentorship and guidance.
Research
Political Economy, International Environmental Law, Sustainable Development, Anthropocene Studies, Histories of Development & Environment
Publications
Books:
- William Nunes and Tejas Rao, eds., Referendums in International Law: An Analysis, Ruby Press Co. (2019)
Journal Articles:
- Crimes of Aggression: The Path Forward [co-authored with Ujval Mohan] (Selected Essays on the Law of Criminal Aggression: Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, Punjab, 2016)
- Space Debris Mitigation, Nuclear Resources & Challenges of the Environmental Law of Outer Space (Lex Terra, 2016)
Book Reviews:
- Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger et al. (eds.), Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation. Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions (Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, 2021)
Casenotes:
- Sharma v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. (Oxford Reporter on International Law, 2020)
Columns and Blogposts:
- Opinio Juris, Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Querying #ILTwitter as a Tweetling [co-authored with Raghavi Viswanath] (2022)
- University of Waterloo, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change, At COP26, experts make a commitment to scale-up climate law and governance tenfold by 2024 (2021)
- Balsillie School of International Affairs, Leading Experts at COP26 Commit to Scale-Up Climate Law & Governance Capacity Worldwide Tenfold from 600 to 6,000 by 2024 (2021)
- Bennett Institute for Public Policy, CoP26 Outcomes and Reasons for Hope [co-authored with Freedom-Kai Phillips] (2021)
- Manupatra, Playing The Devil’s Advocate: How the Government may just pass a Test Under Article 21 while Mandating the Aarogya Setu Application [co-authored with Radhika Parthasarathy] (2020)
- Livelaw.in: Coordinating Judgements: Ensuring Certainty In The Law [co-authored with Kartikeya Sharma] (2020)
- Livelaw.in: Court & Contempt: Dissent From The Bar [co-authored with Kartikeya Sharma] (2020)
- Ikigai Law, Stakeholders’ responses to the TRAI privacy consultation paper (Part XI of XII): Parity in the data protection norms between TSPs and other communication service providers [co-authored with Aakash Khatri and Sushma S. Babu, under supervision from Pushan Dwivedi] (2018)
Teaching and Supervisions
Workshops:
Paper 05, MPhil in Environmental Policy, Department of Land Economy
Supervisions:
Paper 32: Family Law, BA Law, Faculty of Law
Paper 38: International Law, BA Law, Faculty of Law
