Abhijeet Shrivastava

Abhijeet Shrivastava holds an LLM (International Law) from Cambridge University and a BA, LLB (Hons) from Jindal Global Law School. He is a Rapporteur (South Asia) for Oxford Reports on International Law (ILDC).

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Climate of Justice

Abhijeet Shrivastava Aastha Kapoor

Increasingly, litigants recognize the strategic and discursive utility of using human rights proceedings in the fight against climate change. One of the key issues here is the pursuit of remedies...

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Tackling Foreign Election Interference Through Self-Determination

Abhijeet Shrivastava

The problem of foreign election interference through cyberspace has by now received immense traction in international legal literature. Yet compared to intrusive instances such as vote count manipulations, there remains...

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How “Attack on Titan” Complicates the Genocide Convention

Abhijeet Shrivastava Anujay Shrivastava

There has been recent traction towards the idea that pop culture is relevant to the “study, practice, and teaching of international law”. Many scholars acknowledge that it is important to...

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Forestalling the Responsibility to Protect Against Ecocide

Abhijeet Shrivastava

Tremendous academic debate has ensued after the Stop Ecocide Foundation’s 2021 proposal to amend the Rome Statute in such a way that a new “fifth” international crime of “ecocide” would...

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How India’s Legislation Risks Impunity for Genocidal Speech

Abhijeet Shrivastava

Historically, genocides have been preceded by the gradual yet wide dissemination of speech targeting and demonizing particular communities, such as in the Rwandan genocide. The enormity of such speech is...