Ph.D., Warwick Law School and Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (Chancellor's International Scholarship)
LL.M. in International Law, University of Leeds (Awarded Honours with Merit)
B.Sc. LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University
Associate Professor
| rsen@jgu.edu.in | |
| Connect with me | |
| ORCID ID | 0000-0002-8782-2474 |
| Key Expertise | Critical Approaches to International Law (CAIL); Pedagogy; Research Methods; Critical Feminisms; Decolonial and postcolonial approaches; Law and the Humanities. |
Ph.D., Warwick Law School and Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (Chancellor's International Scholarship)
LL.M. in International Law, University of Leeds (Awarded Honours with Merit)
B.Sc. LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University
Rohini Sen is Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, Co-Founder of the THRIvE Research Centre, and Co-Founder of the Feminist TWAIL Collective. Rohini holds a PhD from Warwick Law School and the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (Chancellor's International Scholarship), an LLM in International Law from the University of Leeds (Honours with Merit), and a B.Sc., LLB (Hons.) from Gujarat National Law University. Rohini's work sits at the intersection of critical legal studies and education, with sustained attention to the feminist and queer reimagining of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). Her research draws on new cosmologies of knowledge-making, multi-disciplinary methods of legal inquiry, and politics of teaching (law).
Rohini teaches across core and elective courses spanning Public International Law, Critical International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and International Criminal Law, alongside pedagogically driven courses such as 'Many Faces of International Law: Critiques and Limits' and ‘Mahabharata and the Shaping of a Legal Imagination.' Rohini's writing moves between critical, doctrinal and narrative registers, spanning journal articles, book chapters, edited special issues, and public scholarship. Across this body of work, she returns to a consistent set of concerns: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), feminist and queer legal theories, critical pedagogy, and decolonial and postcolonial thought, alongside writing on citizenship, sovereignty, and the politics of legal education. Her approach leans on treating teaching, collaboration, and the everyday textures of academic life and labour as sites of critical inquiry and praxis. Beyond academic publishing, she writes for online symposia and blogs and has co-produced a podcast series on pedagogy, carrying her scholarly concerns into more conversational and public registers.
Rohini's current work continues to explore these concerns and tensions through the lenses of inclusive and contemplative education (THRIvE), metamethods and post secular engagements with law.
Public International Law
Law of Crimes
Law of Contracts
Family Law
Law of Trusts
Critical International Law
International Humanitarian Law
International Criminal Law
Many Faces of International Law: Critiques and Limits
Mahabharata and the Shaping of a Legal Imagination: Conflict, Identity, Gender and Storytelling
Global Governance Through Law
Chancellor's International Scholarship, University of Warwick (2020)
Laureate, Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, European University Institute, Florence (2015)
Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) Residential Fellowship, Ethnicity, Conflict, and Inequality in Global Perspective Workshop (2015)
VLIR-UOS Scholarship, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, FRAME Project (2013)
International Taught Postgraduate Scholarship, LL.M. in International Law, University of Leeds (2011–2012)
Spencer Foundation Vision Grant for 'Participatory Approaches to Understanding Educational Transformation: Systemic Levers of Instructional Equity in Social Emotional Learning', THRIvE Research Centre and independent partners (2025)
ISRF Small-Groups Grants Scheme for 'From the Ivory Tower to the Shantytown: How Does Critical Legal Theory Respond to Political Uprisings' (2020)
Jindal Global Law School Research Grant for 'Sexual Harassment Laws and their Implementation in Tertiary Education Institutions in India' (2018)
Visiting Faculty (Critical Approaches to International Law), National Law School of India University (NLSIU) (March 2024)
Visiting Faculty (Critical Approaches to International Law), Symbiosis School of International Affairs (SSIS) (May 2018–present)
Visiting Faculty (Critical Approaches to International Law), Rabindra Bharati University, Department of Human Rights (December 2017–present)
Visiting Scholar, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven
| rsen@jgu.edu.in | |
| ORCID ID | 0000-0002-8782-2474 |
| Key Expertise | Critical Approaches to International Law (CAIL); Pedagogy; Research Methods; Critical Feminisms; Decolonial and postcolonial approaches; Law and the Humanities. |