About Me

Professor Sanoj Rajan is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights. He is presently appointed as Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China. His other academic affiliations include Affiliate, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, Visiting Professor, Indian Society of International Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty and the International Christian University at Kinshasa, Congo.

His former academic associations include Associate Director, Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at the Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, the ICCR India Chair Visiting Professor at CUHK Faculty of Law, Hong Kong, and the head of the Academic Programs Division, the International Committee of the Red Cross for the South Asian countries and Iran. He had also been the Professor and Dean at the School of Law, Ansal University, India, Professor and Head, School of Law at North Cap University Gurgaon and has taught law at the University of Kerala during the initial period of his career. He is a Commonwealth Scholar, and hold a PhD, LLM in International Law, and Mst. in Human Rights (Oxford).

He has forty-one publications which include books, research articles in peer-reviewed journals, and op-eds; eighty-seven Conference presentations, seminars, invited talks, and keynote speeches, nationally and internationally. He had also been a Peer Reviewer for the update on Official Commentaries of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and its 1977 Additional Protocol for the ICRC Geneva and a member of the Editorial Board of Yearbook of Indian Society of International Law. He has the credit of delivering invited talks on International Law and Human Rights topics in more than 45 institutions in multiple countries including Canada, the USA, Hong Kong, Sweden, The Netherlands, Australia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Iran, Thailand, Malaysia, and India. He also holds the credit of being the first Indian to be invited to lecture at The International Criminal Court at the Hague, The Netherlands.

He is also among the Founding Governance Board members of Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) and also was the co-coordinator for the core group of experts who founded SNAP, which is a UNHCR initiative involving 50 countries in the Asia Pacific region. His research and teaching interest include International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Refugee Law, Statelessness and Citizenship Laws. His latest publications include; 1) Book: Global Refugee Crisis, A Contemporary Reflection (Thomson Reuters 2018) and 2) Ending International Surrogacy Induced Statelessness: An International Human Rights Law Perspective, Indian Journal of International Law (IJIL), Springer Publication (October 2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/s40901-018-0092-9, 3) International Humanitarian Law in the Indian Military and Civilian Justice System” in the Book, Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law from & on the Asia-Pacific Region Suzannah Linton, Tim McCormack and Sandesh Sivakumaran (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp.475-90. 4)“Domesticating Crimes against Humanity in India: A Case Study on State v. Sajjan Kumar and Others” Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021 (forthcoming). His latest book is International Humanitarian Law in India: A Handbook, Thomson Reuters, Asia Pacific, 2020 (2190 pages. ISBN 978-93-90529-04-9).