Dr Usha Natarajan

Overview

Usha Natarajan is Law and Political Economy Faculty Fellow at Yale Law School and O’Brien Fellow in Residence at McGill Law School. She was Edward W Said Fellow at Columbia University from 2020 to 2023 and has held Fellowships at the University of British Columbia, York University, and Dalhousie University. Her research is interdisciplinary, utilising postcolonial and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) to provide an interrelated understanding of development, environment, migration, and conflict. She was tenured at the American University in Cairo as Associate Professor of International Law and Associate Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee studies from 2010 to 2020. Prior to that she worked for international organizations including the United Nations, UNDP, UNESCO, and the World Bank. With over 50 publications, she is a founding editor of the TWAIL Review and a member of the editorial board at the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice.