Sundhya's scholarship explores the changing role of law and legal institutions in the context of globalisation and engages with the practice and praxis of both international law and law and development through political philosophy, postcolonial and post-structural theories.  Her current research centres on the politics of contemporary international institutions – both political and economic – and the concept of the universal.  She is also writing a book with Dr Jennifer Beard on International Development as part of the Routledge-Cavendish Critical Approaches to Law series.  Sundhya has particular expertise relating to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

In the last several years, Sundhya has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she taught International Law Theory and Practice  in the LLM programme, a guest lecturer at New York University where she taught Law and Society at NYU’s London Campus and at Birkbeck where she taught Public International Law and undertook her PhD research with Professors Peter Fitzpatrick and Fiona Macmillan.

Whilst in London, Sundhya was involved in organising several workshops on critical international law including The New International Law in 2003 and  International Law and Imperialism in 2004,  both with the Foundation for New Research in International Law.  In 2006 she was involved in organising The Force of International law, part of a broader series of Thematics Workshops continuing into 2007.

Before joining the faculty permanently in 2000, Sundhya was awarded a Teaching Fellowship to undertake a Master of Laws by research at the University of British Columbia where she won a university wide teaching award. Before entering academia, Sundhya practicised as a commercial lawyer in the areas of corporate law and litigation and worked as a Research Associate in international law and human rights at the European University Institute in Florence.   Sundhya had a long standing involvement with the Darebin Community Legal Centre, chairing the Committee of Management until 2002. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal and speaks French, Italian and Hindi.

 Law and development blog

http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/LawAndDevelopmentBlog/

Major Publications

Books Edited

Divining the Source: Law's Foundation And The Question Of Authority (Griffith Centre For Socio-Legal Research, 2003). (With Jennifer Beard). Also published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Volume 19, 2003.
For details, see: http://www.griffith.edu.au/text/publication/aflj/content02.html

Inter/national Intersections: Law's ChangingTerritories: The Collected Proceedings (Law Faculty of British Columbia, Occasional Papers, Vancouver, 1998). (with Campbell, San Roque, Davenport, McCue and van't Westeinde).

Refereed publications including Articles, Book Chapters and Review Essays

‘Rights as Regulation: The Integration of Development and Human Rights,’ in The Intersection of Rights and Regulation, ed. Bronwen Morgan (Ashgate, forthcoming). [PDF]

‘Beheading the Hydra: Legal Positivism and Development’, 2007 (1) Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD). Full text available at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/2007_1/pahuja or [PDF].

‘Law, Nation and (Imagined) International Community’ in The Postcolonial and the Global, eds. John Hawley and Revathi Krishnaswamy (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) (with Ruth Buchanan).

Pahuja S, ‘La Necesaria Inclusion Del Excluido: La Pluralidad inherente a la Condicionalidad del Fondo Monetario Internacional’ [2006] 25 Critica Juridica: Revista Latinoamericana de Politca, Filosofia y Derecho 185-207. (Also published as a book chapter in in Oscar Correas (ed.) Pluralismo Jurido: Otros Horizontes (Coyoacan: Editions Coyoacan, 2007) 295-324). (Trans:‘The Necessary Inclusion of the Excluded: The Inherent Plurality of IMF Conditionality’) [PDF]. English translation [PDF].

‘Review of Antony Anghie, Sovereignty, Imperialism and the Making of International Law’, (2006) 69:3 Modern Law Review.  [PDF]

‘The Postcoloniality of International Law’ (2005) 46:2 Harvard Journal of International Law, 459 – 469. [PDF]

‘“Don’t just do something, stand there!” Humanitarian Intervention and the Drowning Stranger.’ (Review essay) (2005) 5 Human Rights and Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications <http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2005/pahuja-2005.pdf> (4,400 words).

‘Legal Imperialism, Empire’s Invisible Hand?’ in Empire’s New Clothes, eds. Jodi Dean J and Paul Passavant (New York: Routledge, 2004) 73 - 95. (With Ruth Buchanan). http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0415935555

‘Law, Nation and (Imagined) International Community’ (2004) 8 Law/Text/Culture 137-167.  (with Ruth Buchanan). [PDF]

‘“This is the World: Have Faith.”’ (2004) 15: 2 European Journal of International Law 381 – 393. [PDF]

‘Power and the Rule of Law in the Global Context.’ (Review essay) (2004) 28: 1 Melbourne University Law Review 232 – 253. [PDF]

Pahuja S and Buchanan R, ‘Using the Web to Promote Active Learning: A Trans-Pacific Course on Globalisation and the Law’ (2003) 53 Journal of Legal Education 578. [PDF]

‘Before the Beginning: Disclosing Law’s Foundation’ in Divining the Source: Law’s Foundation and the Question of Authority, eds. Sundhya Pahuja and Jennifer Beard (Brisbane: Griffith Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 2003).  (With Jennifer Beard).

‘Global Formations: IMF Conditionality and the South as Legal Subject’ in Critical Beings: Race, Nation and the Global Legal Subject, eds. Peter Fitzpatrick and Patricia Tuitt (London: Ashgate Press, 2003)161-181. Book and abstract available at https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?isbn=0%207546%202288%206

‘Globalization and International Economic Law’ in Jurisprudence for an Interconnected Globe, ed. Catherine Dauvergne (London: Ashgate Press, 2003) Chapter 4. Book and abstract available at https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?isbn=0%207546%202282%207

Pahuja S and Buchanan R, ‘Collaboration, Cosmopolitanism and Complicity’ [2002] 71 Nordic Journal of International Law 297 – 324.  [PDF]

Pahuja S, ‘Postcolonial Approaches to International Economic Law’ [2000] Hague Yearbook of International Law 123- 133.

‘Technologies of Empire: IMF Conditionality and the Reinscription of the North South Divide’ (2000) 13 Leiden Journal of International Law  749 – 812. [PDF]

‘Trading Spaces: Locating Sites for Challenge Within International Trade Law’ (2000) 14 Australian Feminist Law Journal  38 – 54.

‘You Can Have Any Colour You Like as Long as it’s Black, or: Why no-one’s a Marxist Any More.’  (Review Essay) (1998) 10:2 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law  503-13.

Contributor of entries, ‘Council of Europe’ and ‘The Right to Petition the European Parliament’ in Butterworths’ Expert Guide to the European Union eds. Monar, Newhal & O’Keefe (London: Butterworths, 1996).

Opinion Pieces

"Out of Touch and With No Credibility", The Age, Melbourne 2006

Policy Papers

Submission To The Inquiry Of The Joint Standing Committee On Treaties Into Australia’s Relationship With The World Trade Organization.  (September 2000).  (With Anne Orford, Jennifer Beard and John Howe) Published at: <http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/wto/subsWTO.htm>