Teaching
Academic Programmes
3-Year LL.B. (Hons.)
5-Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.)
Courses
Nov 2023
Nov 2021
Education
- B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University (GNLU)
- LL.M., University of Cambridge (JN Tata Scholar)
- Ph.D, University of Cambridge (Ongoing)
Profile
Tejas Rao is a PhD Student and C-EENRG Researcher at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, where he is a Nehru Trust Scholar, and Research Coordinator for the Visiting Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy. He is Manager at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, holding an Adam Smith Fellowship at the Mercatus Centre, George Mason University, and a Fellowship at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research examines narratives and the political economy of international law-making, with a specific focus on lawyers’ involvement in securing the implementation of and compliance with Rio Treaties.
With a cross-cutting interest across the Sustainable Development Goals, he also volunteers as Operations Co-Lead with Project EduAccess, which aims to improve the representation in higher education of marginalized communities in South Asia by providing application mentorship and guidance.
Publications
Edited Books
- Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger & Tejas Rao (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Law and Governance for the Sustainable Development Goals (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, Forthcoming).
- Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger & Damilola Olawuyi (eds.), Tejas Rao (asst. ed.), Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices, Processes (Oxford University Press, 2024, Forthcoming). William Nunes & Tejas Rao (eds.), Referendums in International Law: An Analysis (Ruby Press. Co., 2019).
Book Chapters
- Tejas Rao & Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Climate Change Regulation, in Research Handbook on Environmental Regulation (David Williamson, Gary Lynch-Wood and Agne Prochorskaite (eds.), Edward Elgar, Forthcoming).
- Tejas Rao, Capacity-Building, in Courage, Contributions & Compliance: Advancing Climate Law and Governance Innovation (Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Alexandra Harringon & Christina Voigt (eds.), Routledge, Forthcoming).
- Ayman Cherkaoui & Tejas Rao, Emerging Issues, in Courage, Contributions & Compliance: Advancing Climate Law and Governance Innovation (Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Alexandra Harringon & Christina Voigt (eds.), Routledge, Forthcoming).
Articles and Book Reviews
- Fabiano de Andrade Correa, Magret Vidar & Tejas Rao, UNFCCC CoP26: Key Outcomes for Soil Management, International Yearbook of Soil Law & Policy (2022).
- Tejas Rao, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger et al. (eds.), Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation. Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions (Book Review), Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law (2021).
- Tejas Rao & Ujval Mohan, Crimes of Aggression: The Path Forward, in RGNUL Essays on Crimes of Aggression (2016).
Blogs and Columns
- Tejas Rao, Roger Negredo, Elisa Fallani, Epistemic authority in Heritage Management, Völkerrechtsblog (2023, Forthcoming).
- Raghavi Viswanath & Tejas Rao, Reflections on Spatiality in International Law, International Law and the Global South Blog (2022).
- Raghavi Viswanath & Tejas Rao, Querying #ILTwitter as a Tweetling, OpinioJuris/Afronomics Symposium for Early Career Researchers (2022).
- Tejas Rao, At COP26, experts make a commitment to scale-up climate law and governance tenfold by 2024, University of Waterloo Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (2021).
- Tejas Rao, Leading Experts at COP26 Commit to Scale-Up Climate Law & Governance Capacity Worldwide Tenfold from 600 to 6,000 by 2024, Balsillie School of International Affairs (2021).
- Tejas Rao & Freedom-Kai Phillips, CoP26 Outcomes and Reasons for Hope, Bennett Institute for Public Policy (2021).
- Radhika Parthasarathy & Tejas Rao, Playing the Devil’s Advocate: How the Government may just pass a test under Article 21 while mandating the Aarogya Setu application, Manupatra (2020).
- Tejas Rao & Kartikeya Sharma, Coordinating Judicial Discipline: Ensuring Certainty in the Law, Livelaw.in (2020).
- Tejas Rao & Kartikeya Sharma, Contempt & the Court: Dissent from the Bar, Livelaw.in (2020).