Short Bio
Eklavya Vasudev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights” (EXC 3039), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His work examines how public law and human rights transform under systemic stress, particularly climate change, constitutional adjudication, and international economic governance. He completed his doctorate at FAU under Professor Anuscheh Farahat on climate litigation and transformative constitutionalism. He trained and practised as a lawyer in India, including as counsel to former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium and as a judicial clerk to Justice S. Muralidhar at the Delhi High Court, and worked on housing and environmental law at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He holds an LLM from Georgetown University and degrees in law and political science from the University of Delhi. He is co-editor of Climate Justice: Resisting Marginalisation (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and the Business and Human Rights Journal Blog, and co-convenor of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Law and Technology. He has held research roles at Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute and the American Bar Association, and visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Tilburg University, and the University of Vienna. He is a registered advocate with the Bar Council of India.
Eklavya’s current research examines how international investment law reshapes the role of human rights in environmental and climate governance. Rather than treating human rights as a settled toolkit for environmental protection, it analyses them as a justificatory mode through which public authority is exercised, with shifting meaning and distributive consequences under conditions of climate transition and global capital mobility. Through a comparative doctrinal study of Germany, India, and South Africa, the project asks where and why constitutional justifications for environmental regulation lose force under investment-law scrutiny, and what this means for the allocation of public authority, discretion, and accountability.
- Eklavya Vasudev, Marie-Sophie Keller & Siddharth Peter de Souza (eds), Climate Justice: Resisting Marginalisation (Cambridge University Press, 2026, Open Access, CC BY-NC 4.0). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/climate-justice/7CC9EDE1CEDEA029AD99D22D2E1A5A2D
- Eklavya Vasudev, ‘Gatekeeper Constitutionalism: Exploring the Role of the Indian Judiciary in Environmental Constitutionalism and International Law Integration’, in European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2024 (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2025), 129–151. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-699-4_7
- Eklavya Vasudev, ‘Reclaiming the Public Trust: Constitutional Limits of Urban Exclusion’, World Comparative Law (VRÜ) 58(4) (2025) 550–573 (Open Access). https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2025-4-550
- Markus Krajewski, Julia Stefanello Pires & Eklavya Vasudev, ‘Climate Litigation’, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (2nd edn, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2026).
- Eklavya Vasudev, ‘Transformative Constitutionalism and Climate Litigation’, Verfassungsblog (23 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.17176/20220323-121252-0
- Talha Abdul Rahman & Eklavya Vasudev, ‘Towards Emotionally Unbiased Judgments’, The Hindu (28 February 2024). https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/towards-emotionally-unbiased-judgments/article67892107.ece
- Eklavya Vasudev & Thomas Blom Hansen, ‘Citizens and the State: Policing, Impunity, and the Rule of Law in India’, Policy Watch No. 18 (The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, March 2024). https://www.thehinducentre.com/incoming/citizens-and-the-state-policing-impunity-and-the-rule-of-law-in-india/article67887312.ece
- Eklavya Vasudev, Nithya Kochuparampil & Siddharth Peter de Souza, Climate Justice Lexicon (Justice Adda, India Climate Collaborative & EdelGive Foundation, 2021). https://www.justiceadda.com/climatejusticelexicon
Co-author of the Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Domestic Violence (2019) published by the World Bank.
- Doctorate awarded summa cum laude, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- FAU President’s Award (2024, DFG-funded)
- Georgetown Law Merit Scholarship (2015–2016)
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung doctoral scholarship (2020–2026)
- DAAD-STIBET Doctoral Scholarship (2025)