Dr. Sujith Xavier

Biography

Sujith Xavier is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. His research encompasses World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), public international law, and domestic public law. He has co-edited significant works, including 'Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, World Settler Perspectives' published by Routledge Press in 2021, and 'World Approaches to International Law: Praxis Intellectual' (London: Routledge, 2017). As a founding member of the Editorial Collective for the Third World Approaches to International Law Review, he actively contributes to the discourse in the field. With substantial experience working in local grassroots non-governmental organizations in Sri Lanka, he has also interned with Al-Haq in Ramallah, Palestine. His legal internships include positions in The Hague, notably with Judge Agius at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Although he is a non-practicing member of the Law Society of Ontario, he has been involved in notable cases, including Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov (2019). Sujith received the University of Windsor Outstanding Faculty Research Award for Emerging Scholars and Researchers in March 2018, as well as multiple Teaching Awards for excellence in education, teaching courses such as Administrative Law, Constitutionalism in the Global South, Legal Theory, and Race Law.

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