Dr. Sujith Koonan

Sujith Koonan completed his doctoral research on ‘The Right to Sanitation in India: A Multi-Faceted Right in Search of a Comprehensive Framework’ in 2017 from SOAS-University of London. He has an MPhil in public international law from Jawaharlal Nehru University and an LLM in human rights and environmental law from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He is a Member, Editorial Board of the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD)—a joint publication of SOAS–University of London and International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), Geneva.

His main areas of interest are Environmental Law, Water and Sanitation, Law and Natural Resources, Human Rights, Public International Law and Agro-biodiversity. His recent publications are Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South (Edward Elgar, 2019) [with P. Cullet] and Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019) [with P. Cullet and L. Bhullar]. His publications can be accessed here.

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