Jaipur • New Delhi • Bengaluru • Guwahati • Kolkata
Leïla Choukroune and Parul Bhandari (eds)
Leïla Choukroune is Director of the Centre for Social Sciences and
Humanities (CSH), New Delhi India, the French National Research Centre
(CNRS) Unit on South Asia. She is a visiting Professor at the World
Trade Institute (Bern), the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, the
Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (Arusha, Tanzania), the China-EU
School of Law (Beijing), and the University of Geneva. When associate
Professor of international economic law with the Faculty of Law of the
University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, she was Deputy Director of
the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR) and
Director of the Advanced Master in international economic law. Her
research focuses on the interactions between trade, investment and human
rights and is applied to emerging countries, China and India in
particular. She has published numerous scientific articles and authored
several books including (with Sangeeta Khorana) Global Health and the
Emerging World: An Integrated International Trade Approach, (Springer,
forthcoming 2015). She is the Editor of the Springer book series
International Law and the Global South and member of the Editorial Board
of China Perspectives. Leïla Choukroune is regularly solicited as an
independent expert on international economic law and business and human
rights issues. She is an independent adviser to the International
Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and a Member of the French National
Books Commission (CNL). Before taking the responsibility of the CSH
directorship, she was Associate Professor with the Law Faculty of
Maastricht University, Assistant Professor with HEC Paris, Consultant
with the OECD, Lecturer with Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Researcher
with the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) in Hong
Kong. She holds a Doctorate in international law (Summa cum laude –
highest honor) from the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and is a
qualified lawyer to the Paris Bar. She is fluent in French, English and
Spanish, speaks Chinese and German and learns Hindi.
Parul Bhandari
is currently a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund’s College and the Centre
for South Asian Studies (CSAS), University of Cambridge. She is also an
affiliated to the Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), the
South Asia research unit for the French National Centre for Research
(CNRS), where she previously was a Post Doctoral Fellow (2014-2016). She
has held Guest Faculty positions at the Department of Sociology, Delhi
School of Economics, and the Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT,
Delhi). Dr. Bhandari completed her PhD in Sociology from the University
of Cambridge in 2014. Her PhD was supported by the Cambridge
Commonwealth Trust. Her main research interests lie in the field of
social class, gender, marriage, and family. Her doctoral thesis
explained the makings of middle class identities through the processes
of spouse-selection. For her post-doctoral research she has shifted
attention to the study of elites, particularly the rich housewives of
Delhi, focusing on their relationship with money and exploring the
themes of honour and humiliation in their everyday lives.
Samta P. Pandya
M.C. Behera (ed.)
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