Publications by Professor Surabhi Ranganathan

Full list of publications by Professor Surabhi Ranganathan.

  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, ‘The Battle for International Law in the Neoliberal Era: An Introduction’, in The Battle for International Law in the Neoliberal Era (eds Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, Surabhi Ranganathan), Oxford University Press, forthcoming
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Maria Adele Carrai, ‘Against the Inequality of Ignorance’, in Cambridge History of International Law in Asia (eds Maria Adele Carrai, Surabhi Ranganathan), 2026
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Vexed Liminality of Hydrothermal Vents: An Opportunity to Unmake the Law of the Sea’, in Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents (eds Irus Braverman), Routledge, 2022
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Megan Donaldson, ‘Accountability’, in Cambridge Companion to International Organisations (eds Jan Klabbers), 2022
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Sea Change’, in History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International (eds Annabel Brett, Megan Donaldson, Martti Koskenniemi), 2021
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘What if Arvid Pardo had not made his famous speech? : (False) Contingency in the Making of the Law of the Sea’, in Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (eds Kevin Jon Heller and Ingo Venzke), Oxford University Press, 2021
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, ‘The Common Heritage of Mankind: Annotations on a Battle’, in The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (eds Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann), Oxford University Press, 2019
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Jessie Hohmann, Daniel Joyce, Jessie Hohmann, Daniel Joyce, ‘Manganese Nodules’, in International Law's Objects (eds Jessie Hohmann and Daniel Joyce), Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Law of the Sea and Natural Resources’, in Community Interests Across International Law (eds Eyal Benvenisti and Georg Nolte), Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Eirik Bjorge, Cameron Miles, Eirik Bjorge, Cameron Miles, Eirik Bjorge, Cameron Miles, ‘The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinions (1996)’, in Landmark Cases in Public International Law, Hart Publishing, 2017
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Industry Associations and the Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies’, in Private Military and Security Contractors: Controlling the Corporate Warrior (eds Gary Schaub Jr. and Ryan Kelty), Rowman and Littlefield, 2016
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja Aalberts, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, ‘Legality and Lawfare in Regime Implementation’, in The Power of Legality: Practices of International Law and Their Politics (eds Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen), 2015
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Responding to Deliberately-created Treaty Conflicts’, in Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties (eds C Tams, A Tzanakopoulos and A Zimmerman), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Constructive Constraints? Conceptual and Practical Challenges to Regulating Private Military and Security Companies’, in Human security and international law: the challenge of non-state actors (eds C Ryngaert and M Noorthman), Intersentia, 2013
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘What, if anything, can seabed mining become?’, 2026 Heidelberg Journal of International Law forthcoming, forthcoming
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Joseph Powderly, ‘Introducing the LJIL Occasional Lecture: Ardi Imseis on Palestine’, Leiden Journal of International Law 2026:1-3. doi:10.1017/S0922156526100946
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Joseph Powderly, Bojana Ristic, Ingo Venzke, Eric de Brabandere, Rebecca O'Rourke, ‘Going Open Access’, (2025) 38(4) LJIL 675
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Joseph Powderly, Ingo Venzke, Eric de Brabandere, ‘Addressing issues and concerns raised by the publication of the 'Gaza Marine article'’, (2025) 38(1) LJIL 1
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Seabed and the South: From Stock Stories to New Histories of International Lawmaking’, (2024) 15:2 Journal of Human Rights and Environmental Law 183-213
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Participatory Scope of the Common Heritage Principle’, (2024) AJIL Unbound 88-92
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘On Outi Penttila's 'Behind the Greening Virtues: A History of Environmentalism in International Law'’, Ymparistojuridiikka 2/2024 s. 114-122
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Law of the Sea (Needs a Rewrite)’, The Dial, Issue 4: Shipwrecks, May 2023
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Evelien Campfens, ‘Colonial Loot and Its Restitution: Current Developments and New Prospects for Law’, (2022) 2 Santander Art and Culture Law Review 12-20, 2023
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The ‘English School’ of International Law: Soundings via the 1972 Jubilee Essays’, (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal S126-S153
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Decolonization and International Law: Putting the Ocean on the Map’, (2021) 23(1) Journal of the History of International Law 161-183, 2020
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Law of the Sea: 7 Essays on the Interfaces of Land and Sea’, Visualizing Climate and Loss, January 2020
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Rohit De, ‘We are Witnessing a Rediscovery of India's Republic’, New York Times, 27 December 2019
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Ocean Floor Grab: International Law and the Making of an Extractive Imaginary’, (2019) 30:2 European Journal of International Law 573-600
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, Isabel Feichtner, ‘International Law and Economic Exploitation in the Global Commons: Introduction’, (2019) 30(2) European Journal of International Law 541-546
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Seasteads, Landgrabs and International Law: Editorial"’, (2019) 32:2 Leiden Journal of International Law 1-10
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Nuclear Weapons and the Court’, (2017) 111 American Journal of International Law Unbound 88-95
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The 2015 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice’, (2016) 110 American Journal of International Law 504-525
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Global Commons’, (2016) 27 European Journal of International Law 693-717
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Between Philosophy and Anxiety? The Early International Law Commission, Treaty Conflict and the Project of International Law’, (2012) 83 British Yearbook of International Law 82-114, 2014
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘The Value of Narratives: The India USA Nuclear Deal in terms of Fragmentation, Pluralism, Constitutionalization and Global Administrative Law’, (2013) 6(1) Erasmus Law Review 16-31
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Visions of International Law: Lessons from the 123 Agreement’, (2011) 51 Indian Journal of International Law 146-197
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Between Complicity and Irrelevance-Industry Associations and the Challenge of Regulating Private Security Contractors’, (2010) 41 Georgetown Journal of International Law 303-376
  • Surabhi Ranganathan, ‘Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Humanitarian Assistance: What's in a Name or the Importance of Being Earnest’, 40(1) John Marshall Law Review 195-233, 2006