Rashmi Raman

Rashmi joins CIL as Research Fellow working in public international law. She has previously been a Visiting Research Fellow at CIL when on leave of absence from the Jindal Global Law School, India, where she worked as Professor of International Law for over a decade. She has taught international law at universities in Asia, Europe, and Africa, offering courses that blend rigorous legal analysis with creative inquiry. In addition to academia, Rashmi consults for international organizations on international criminal law and human rights law and serves on the Board of Directors of an international refugee law organization.

Rashmi’s scholarship situates at the intersection of critical legal theory, transitional justice, international criminal law, and international human rights law. She applies critical methodology to offer alternatives to dominant narratives of international law, drawing on history and critique to reimagine its mainstream accounts. Her approach to legal research and writing is interdisciplinary, integrating literature, poetry, drama, and doctrinal legal texts in her scholarship.

Before entering academia, Rashmi worked with the United Nations in public international law and international criminal law in various capacities across the globe. She contributed to the final cases at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, and worked with the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia. As a consultant observer, she documented cases of Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunals in Dhaka. Rashmi is a former International Law and Global Justice Fellow of the NYU International Law & Human Rights program at the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva and recipient of the United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme at The Hague Academy of International Law.

She earned her first degree in law from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta and her advanced degrees in international law from the New York University School of Law and the National University of Singapore.