Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

Selected research products

Peer reviewed articles/Book chapters

• Viswanath, 'Caste and the Conventions: Asking the caste question to India's international legal diplomacy', in Special Issue on Caste and Diplomacy of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy (forthcoming).
• Viswanath and J. Wiseman, 'Eat the Rich: An Economic Justice Approach towards Cultural Heritage Protection' in Heritage in War and Peace: Legal and Political Perspectives for Future Protection (Springer, forthcoming in 2024).
• Viswanath and J. Wiseman, 'Unpacking expert authority: The case of Italy's UNESCO taskforce', in the Handbook on Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage of Mankind (Routledge, forthcoming in 2024).
• Viswanath, 'Indigenous Peoples', in OpenRewi Textbook on Public International Law (Wikibooks 2023) and Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach (González Hauck, Kunz, and Milas (eds.), Routledge, 2024).
• Viswanath, A. Ciampi, and T. Fiskatoris, 'International Criminal Law', in OpenRewi Textbook on Public International Law (Wikibooks 2023) and Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach (González Hauck, Kunz, and Milas (eds.), Routledge, 2024).
• Viswanath, 'Comparing International Criminal Tribunals' interpretive approaches in relation to International Humanitarian Law', in ICC Jurisprudence and the Development of International Humanitarian Law (Svacek and Faix (eds.), Springer 2023).
• Viswanath and F. Li, 'Constructing a sensory alternative to the Ongwen judgment', International Criminal Law Review (November 2023).
• Viswanath, 'Decolonizing Law by Bhatia et. al.', Vol. 3 Cross-Cultural Human Rights Review 8-16 (2021).
• Viswanath, 'Hate crimes against minorities in India: Locating the value of international criminal law discourse', 19(3) Journal of International Criminal Justice 611-642 (2021).
• Viswanath, 'The right of passage case: A tale of two customs?', in Global Encyclopaedia on Territorial Rights (Kocsis (ed.), Springer 2021).
• Viswanath, 'Elevating cultural rights using international criminal law - The Asian story', 10(2) Asian Journal of International Law (2020).
• Viswanath and T. Chawla, 'Two-minute Experiment gone bad: Stars to bear liability?', 11 NALSAR Student Law Review 169-196 (2017).
• Viswanath and V. Tadwalkar, 'Bitcoins as a viable currency – Regulatory and legal issues', 3(1) Symbiosis Law School Student Law Review 233-43 (2017).
• Viswanath, 'Demystifying the Indian FRAND regime- The interplay of competition and intellectual property', 21(1) Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 89-95 (2016).
• Viswanath and S. Sharma, 'The Beefed-up ban in Maharashtra', 7 India Law Journal (2015).
• Viswanath, 'Economic crimes in aerospace and defense', National Judicial Academy (2015).
• Contributing author for modules on Administrative law, Code of Civil Procedure, and Interpretation of Statutes published by the All India Reporter Law Academy, Nagpur (2014).
• Viswanath and G. Kamat, 'Regulating counter-terrorism: The civil society perspective', 9 International Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences 171-190 (2014).

Blogposts/Other output

• Viswanath and J. Wiseman, Beyond the performance of restitution: an unexpected tale of minority disenfranchisement and political conflicts in Tamil Nadu, for a symposium on Carsten Stahn’s OUP book ‘Confronting Colonial Objects’, Opinio Juris (forthcoming, March 2024).
• Podcast on cultural rights with the PhD HardTalk podcast (December 2023 – January 2024).
• Viswanath, O. Nicole-Berva, and A. Prokhorova, Rethinking ethics review from a decolonial perspective, EUIdeas (November 2023).
• Viswanath and T. Rao, Reflection on spatiality in international law, International Law and Global South (October 2022).
• Interview with the PhD Talk podcast (August 2022).
• Viswanath and T. Rao, Querying #ILTwitter as a Tweetling, OpinioJuris symposium on challenges for early career researchers in international law (March 2022).
• Interview with the PhD HardTalk podcast (October 2021).
• Viswanath and J. Wiseman, People versus (State-centric) international cultural heritage law – Is human rights the mediator?, Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (February 2021).
• Viswanath, To detain or not to detain?, Intl Law Girls (October 2020).
• Co-author of PILPG’s amicus intervention in the Bosco Ntaganda appeal before the International Criminal Court (September 2020).
• Viswanath, A stitch in time: Examining the Ayyash et. al. judgment, International Law Association Reporter (October 2020).
• Interview with the Jus Cogens podcast (May 2020).
• Viswanath, Admitting evidence of fact-finding missions: Where does the buck stop, Lawyering Justice (January 2020).
• Viswanath, International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 and the Principle of Legality, Oxford South Asian Law Discussion Group (July 2019).
• Viswanath, Right to consent to military intervention: Limited or not?, Cambridge International Law Journal blog (March 2019).
• Viswanath, Understanding indigenous peoples' rights: Collective or individual?, Oxford Human Rights Hub (November 2017).

Books

• Viswanath, S. Vij, and A. Chaudhary, The Patent Case Digest for India (Thomson Reuters, 2019) [ISBN No: 978-93-83674-94-3].

Courses

• LAW AND SOCIETY IN ASIA (CPS0430)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Research topics

Raghavi Viswanath is an Indian legal academic and consultant in the fields of international human rights law and international criminal law. She is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute in Florence where she is supported by a scholarship from Nuffic-Beurs. Her doctoral project proposes a multimedia, ethnographic reimagination of cultural rights in international human rights law using non/counterhegemonic epistemologies. Her project draws on months-long collaborative fieldwork with the Irulars, a semi-nomadic community based in southern India. The doctoral thesis combines Raghavi’s academic interest in challenging dominant epistemologies in international law, her passion for music and fine arts, and her own lived experience as an Indian lawyer navigating academia in Europe.

Raghavi holds postgraduate degrees from Leiden Law School and the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts and Law degree from the National Law Institute University (India). Alongside her PhD, Raghavi is a consultant for cultural rights collectives in India and Kenya, a Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory, and a Senior Research Associate at Public International Law and Policy Group. Raghavi has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the National Law School of India University, the University of Firenze, the University of Salamanca, La Sapienza University, Ashoka University, and the University of East London. 

Her areas of interest include:

• Human rights law (socio-economic and cultural rights and minority rights)
• South Asia
• Epistemic injustice
• Sensory approaches to law
• International criminal law
• Cultural heritage law