Sai Sathyanarayanan Venkatesh, LL.M.

Since 10/2021 Research Fellow, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law

9/2020 – 9/2021 Thematic Editor, International Review of the Red Cross, ICRC (Switzerland)

9/2019 – 9/2020 Associate, International Review of the Red Cross, ICRC (Switzerland)

9/2018 – 9/2021 Editor, International Organizations Law Review

2018 – 2019 Masters of Law (LLM) in advanced studies of Public International Law with a specialisation in International Criminal Law, at Leiden University (The Netherlands)

3/2019 – 6/2019 Student Researcher, Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law (The Netherlands)

1/2018 – 2/2018 Research Intern, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (India)

12/2017 – 1/2018 Legal Intern, Human Rights Law Network (India)

11/2017 Legal Intern, Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission (India)

6/2017 Summer School Diploma, International Trade Law & Policy from the Centre for WTO Studies (India)

6/2016 Summer School Diploma, Washington College of Law, American University (USA)

2013 – 2018   Dual degree Bachelor’s in Business Administration and Law (with Honors), SASTRA University (India)

• “Legality of Autonomous Weapons Systems and their implications on existing IHL principles (approached through the New Haven School of International Legal Theory)”, Groningen Journal of International Law, July 2019, Volume 7 Issue 1
• “The nexus between ‘development’ and positive rights- Study of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, South Asian Journal of Law and Human Rights, January 2018
• “Judicial Enforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Comparison of theory and practical implementation of such rights”, Commonwealth Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, November 2017
• “Immunity of International Organizations- Immunity being used as a ‘shield of defence’ against judicial enforcement: The case of the World Bank”, The World Journal on Juristic Polity, May 2017