Manasa is a legal consultant specialising in Public International Law and International Human Rights. She presently works as a consultant in Amsterdam, running an independent legal practice – ‘MSV Consultancy NL.’ From July 2023 to August 2025, she
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The Jindal Forum for International and Economic Laws is an organization that publishes scholarly blogs focusing on international law, economic law, and related global issues. Its content critically examines international legal doctrines, state sovereignty, environmental law, and the impact of colonial and post-colonial practices on the Global South. The forum addresses topics such as the enforcement and interpretation of international law, climate justice, indigenous rights, and the legal challenges posed by geopolitical developments. It often highlights perspectives from the Global South and critiques dominant positivist legal theories, aiming to provide nuanced analyses of international legal frameworks and their socio-political implications.
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Surveillance Without Steering: The CSDDD’s Failure in the Wake of Omnibus I
The European Parliament, pursuant to its 2019 European Green Deal, adopted the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (“CSDDD”) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”), constituting EU’s corporate sustainability regulation regime. The CSDDD was radical in its supply chain sustainability…
Justice or Vengeance? International Law and Gotham’s Dark Knight
Batman has a rule. He does not kill.
It is a strange rule for a man who spends his nights confronting criminals, often violently, and who possesses more than enough power to end many of his conflicts permanently. However, that…
Development as World-Making: A Conversation with Sundhya Pahuja
Garvit (JFIEL): Professor Pahuja, thank you so much for joining us today, it really means a great deal to have you here, since so much of the work we try to do draws directly on yours, and your writing has…
When the State Becomes the Obstacle: The July Revolution, the Right to Development, and the Case for a Post-Statist Reading
Four decades ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared the right to development “an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy” development. The Declaration on…
Global Cities, Urban Displacement and Development: Positioning Indian Cities as International Legal Actors
Introduction
Our world is rapidly urbanising. This growth is projected to increase from 56% in 2021 to 68% in 2025, translating to 2.2 billion urban residents, out of which the majority will live in Asia and Africa. By 2035…
Unclean Economies – Rethinking Development Through Waste
You’ve made all this effort to get to a place where the ugly, shit end of capitalism won’t be present, only to discover that your quest has been futile. A bit of rubbish has found its way into paradise and…
How do we see development vis-a-vis how development sees us?
“The Gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than…
Early-Career Positions at the United Nations (Consultancies and Associateships): On ‘International Lawyering’ with Pratyusha Ivaturi and Kwon Yongmi
In this interview, Adithi and Charu speak with Pratyusha Ivaturi, a consultant with the Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs, and Kwon Yongmi, a Counter-Trafficking Associate with IOM Nigeria, about their very different paths into international law…
Problematizing the Lack of a Human Rights Interpretative Clause in the Statute of the Special Tribunal of Ukraine
On June 25, 2025 the Council of Europe and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (‘the Tribunal’). The Tribunal is set up within the aegis of the Council of Europe…