Sundhya's scholarship is concerned with relationship between international law and institutions and the question of global inequality. She researches, writes and teaches in the areas of law and development, international law, law and globalisation and legal theory. Sundhya's work engages with the practice, and praxis, of international law and development through political philosophy, political-economy and postcolonial theories.
Sundhya's recent works include Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (recently awarded the 2012 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit); Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations (Routledge, 2012) (co-edited with Ruth Buchanan and Stewart Motha); and Events: The Force of International Law (Routledge, 2011) (co-edited with Fleur Johns and Richard Joyce). Sundhya is currently writing a book with Laura Griffin on International Development as part of the Routledge-Cavendish Critical Approaches to Law series and also researching issues relating to international law and poverty and to the global commons. In June 2012, Sundhya is co-convening with Matthew Craven and Antony Anghie, 'Global Law and Political Economy: From Colonialism to Development' a stream at the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Policy (IGLP) Workshop. Sundhya has been invited to serve as the Director of Studies in Public International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2014.
Sundhya is concurrently a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliate Faculty of the European Collaborative Doctoral Programme in Globalisation and Legal Theory, and has held visiting appointments at the LSE, NYU and UBC. She has worked as a research associate in international law and human rights at the EUI in Florence, practised as a commercial lawyer, and for several years chaired the Committee of Management at the Darebin Community Legal Centre. She is currently a member of the organising committee of the Legal Theory Interest group of the European Society of International Law and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the Australian Feminist Law Journal and the Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal (LGD) based at the University of Warwick.
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