Dr Rishabh Bajoria

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a College Research Associate at King's College. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Law, NUS (2025-2026).

I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar (2021-2025) where my dissertation was awarded the Yorke Prize. Before that, I obtained my LLM from the University of Melbourne as an Alex Chernov Scholar and my B.A.LLB (Hons) from Jindal Law School as a Savitri Jindal Scholar. My scholarship has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of the History of International Law. I also serve on the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of International Law and the Leiden Journal of International Law.

My postdoctoral project will focus on a social history of international humanitarian law through two case-studies from postcolonial India. I am simultaneously working on two projects emerging out of my doctorate: the first is a history of how the Indus Waters Treaty foreclosed the possibilities of Kashmiri freedom; and the second is an ecological critique of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources.

I am joining the Law Faculty as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, where I will work on a social history of international humanitarian law through two case-studies from postcolonial India. This is my second postdoctoral appointment—I spent a year as a postdoc at the Centre for International Law (National University of Singapore).

Previously, I completed my PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, my LLM from Melbourne Law School as an Alex Chernov scholar, and my BALLB (Hons) from Jindal Law School as a Savitri Jindal scholar. My doctorate studied the history and political economy of international law through the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960. I also serve on the editorial boards of the Asian Journal of International Law and the Leiden Journal of International Law.