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Abstract

B.S. Chimni is Professor of International Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has had all his formal education in India. He took his LL.B. degree from Panjab University, LL.M. from Bombay University and Ph.D. from JNU. He has been Vice Chancellor of W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He has held visiting positions at Brown, Harvard, Cambridge, York and Tokyo Universities. He is a General Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law and a member of the Executive Council, Asian Society of International Law. He has delivered several prestigious lectures including the Eighth Grotius Lecture at the Centennial Meeting of the American Society of International Law and the First Barbara-Harrell Bond lecture at Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University. His central research interest is to elaborate in association with a group of likeminded scholars a critical third world approach to international law (TWAIL). In doing so he has been sustained over the years by the encouragement and friendship of many individuals, especially Antony Anghie, James Gathii, David Kennedy, Obiora Okafor and Yasuaki Onuma.