Welcoming Dr. Priya Pillai as Professor of Practice
March 14, 2025
We are pleased to welcome our alumna, Dr. Priya Pillai, who has joined us as Professor of Practice. We wish her the very best for her professional journey at NLSIU.
Dr. Priya Pillai
Professor of Practice
Priya is a lawyer and international law specialist, with two decades of expertise in the areas of international justice, international human rights, transitional justice, peace and conflict, and humanitarian issues.
She has worked at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) headquarters in Geneva on legal issues in the humanitarian sphere, at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on trials in the aftermath of the Balkans conflict, and with various civil society organisations on implementation of international law (human rights, rule of law and transitional justice). She has been involved in different aspects of peace and transitional justice initiatives, in South and South-East Asia, and she writes and advocates on these issues regularly. She consults on various aspects of international law, for organisations such as Amnesty International, WHO and the IFRC.
Priya received her BA LLB (Hons) from NLSIU in 2000, LLM from New York University School of Law, and her PhD from Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.