Prof. Surabhi Ranganathan

Surabhi Ranganathan is Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of King's College, and deputy director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Her current work on the legal ordering of the ocean, explores ocean depths and bottoms, marine infrastructures and techno-utopian imaginaries, and – from the vantage point of oceanic law-making – the legal historiography and politics of statehood and territory, decolonization and the new international economic order, knowledge production and circulation, and the emergence of new legal forms and institutions.
Her writing has been published in leading law journals including the European Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, and the Journal of the History of International Law, several edited collections, and popular platforms such as the New York Times and The Dial. Author of the monograph Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law (CUP), editor-in-chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law, and an occasional host of EJIL: The Podcast!, she is, most recently, an editor of the Santander Art and Culture Law Review special issue ‘Colonial Loot and its Restitution’. She spent 2022-2023 as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Centre for History and Economics, a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and will be a Hauser Global Professor at NYU School of law in Fall 2024.