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Research Interest(s): International Legal Historiography, Law and Literature, TWAIL and Legal Theory
Discipline(s): Law
Biography
Aditya Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate at the Sciences Po Law School, working under the supervision of Professor Jean d’Aspremont and Professor Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. He holds a dual-degree B.A., LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune (2022) and a Master’s degree from Sciences Po, Paris (2024).
His doctoral work explores the phenomenology of legal storytelling and the mechanics of historical projection. Instead of searching for 'objective origins', his thesis utilizes the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to subversively repeat the discipline's process of canon-making. By projecting international legal vocabularies onto these ancient Indian epics, his work attempts to consciously construct and present non-Eurocentric narratives to expose the contingency of the international legal canon.
Thesis topic
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata as Stories in International Law.
Teaching
- International Law and Empire
- Critical Approaches to International Law
- Doctrines of International Legal Argumentation