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Surabhi Ranganathan is a Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law and a Fellow of King's College. She serves as Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, a leading research institution in international legal studies. Her work critically examines the intersections of international law with history, political economy, and global governance, with a focus on oceans, treaties, and decolonization.
Holding degrees from NLSIU Bangalore (BA LLB), NYU (LLM), and Cambridge (PhD), she has clerked at India's Supreme Court and held visiting roles at NYU, Geneva's Graduate Institute, and Harvard. Her research challenges conventional narratives of international law, particularly through studies of oceanic legal frameworks and their colonial legacies.
Publications include Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law (Cambridge UP, 2015), recognized as an EJIL Editors' Choice. Her writing spans journals like the American Journal of International Law and European Journal of International Law, addressing treaty conflicts, global commons, and legal geography. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law.
Her recent projects trace the legal construction of oceans from 1945, exploring techno-utopian imaginaries and resource governance. Collaborations include the Aurora Centre in Norway, examining Arctic legal challenges. Her work bridges interdisciplinary scholarship, inviting re-evaluations of international law's historical and spatial dimensions.
