College of Law
Dr Parvathi Menon
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- College of Law Lecturer in Law
- Department
- College of Law
- Qualifications
- BA LLB (Pune), LLM (LSE), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Helsinki)
- Building
- Paul Webley Wing (Senate House)
- Office
- S332
- Email address
- pm55@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Parvathi is Co-Director of the Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (CCEIL) at SOAS, University of London.
She adopts a Marxist and Third Worldist approach to International Law. Her forthcoming book is called Profiting from Protection: A Race for Labour, Land and Capital in International Law (Cambridge University Press). In the book, she argues why protecting racialised people was necessary for the protection of private property and accumulation of capital via several institutional mechanisms in the long nineteenth century.
She has published on third-world liberation movements, criminalisation, slavery, postcoloniality and its gendered dimensions, reparations for slavery and colonialism, among others, to highlight the ideological functions of law and its relationship to the material conditions of exploitation and inequality within the global economy.
Research interests
- International Law
- History of International Law
- International Legal Theory
- Political Economy of International Law
- Marxism
- Third-World Approaches to International Law
