Eklavya Vasudev

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.

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