B. S. Chimni

Biography

B. S. Chimni is Professor of International Law at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School (1995-96) and Law Fellow, University of York, Canada (1993). He has been teaching international economic law for the last twenty years. His other areas of interest are international legal theory and international refugee law. But for the past many years his principal interest has been in bringing together a group of like minded scholars from the third world to challenge Western dominance in the field of international law. His publications include International Commodity Agreements: A Legal Study (1987), International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches (1993) and International Refugee Law: A Reader (2000). He is an Executive Editor of the Indian Journal of International Law and one of the editors of The Third World and International Law (to be launched in March this year).

Research Interest

international economic law, international refugee law and international legal theory.