Professor Vasuki Nesiah

Overview

Vasuki Nesiah is Professor of Practice in Human Rights and International Law at the Gallatin School, New York University. She teaches and writes on the politics of human rights, international law, social theory, international feminisms, critical race theory and legal history. Her current focus is on a book project on reparations, tentatively titled Reading the Ruins: Slavery, Colonialism and International Law. She published International Conflict Feminism last year(UPenn 2024). A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she co-edited the Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (forthcoming with Elgar). Her previous co-edited work also speaks to international law from a global south perspective: A Global History of Bandung and Critical Traditions in International Law (Cambridge 2017). Before returning to full time academia, Nesiah spent several years as a human rights lawyer working on law and policy issues at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). She is from Sri Lanka and Brooklyn.