Aashish Yadav is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School. His doctoral research examines the nationality concerns that emerge during protracted or permanent displacement in the context of climate change.
Aashish joined MLS in 2025 after working for five years on citizenship deprivation and statelessness in India with a focus on Assam. During this time, he was based at Jindal Global Law School in India as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law. He taught international law, human rights, and citizenship, including a legal clinic on statelessness in India. His academic work has been published in Statelessness and Citizenship Review and Jindal Global Law Review. His public commentary has appeared in The Indian Express, Scroll.in, and Article-14.
Aashish is also a guest lecturer at The University of Edinburgh and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition – Asia Pacific. He has held visiting positions at Université Catholique de Lille, France and Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia. Aashish studied LLM at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and LLB and BA (Honours) English Literature at the University of Delhi.
Thesis Title
Nationality Concerns During Protracted or Permanent Climate Displacement
Thesis Summary
This thesis will focus on the impacts on nationality status of persons displaced in a protracted or permanent manner in the context of climate change. It seeks to examine concerns including the threat of loss of nationality due to residence overseas, the lack of acquisition of nationality due to birth abroad, the access to pathways to nationality in the host state, and ways to ensure retention of the nationality of country of origin.
Supervisors
- Statelessness
- Human Rights Law
- Refugee Law
- International Law
- India and South Asia Law