floneuk
floneuk
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I was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and will start there very soon. Last year in November, I successfully completed my PhD without any corrections on ‘Restoration of Historical Title and the Kashmir Question: An International Legal Appraisal’ from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK). My thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach and unifies the areas of law, politics, policy and archival history. My work argues the Kashmir question from a perspective that opens a new vista of discussing this issue using the principle of restoration of historical title. This work contextualizes the international community’s foreign policy and legal position on Kashmir and discusses the consequences of abandoning this issue and letting it fester in the face of danger of potential nuclear war and spread of terrorism. For completing this study I was awarded funding by the CB Davidson Scholarship in the years 2005 to 2008. I also secured funding from the Carnegie Trust and the Small Grants Fund (University of Aberdeen, 2007) to complete the archival research in the British Library (London, UK), the National Archives at Kew (London, UK), the National Archives of India (Delhi, India) and the State Archives of Jammu and Kashmir (Srinagar and Jammu Repository, Kashmir, India). I have now started the process of publishing my thesis as a book.
Having tutored Public International Law during my PhD, I am also an Honorary Research Assistant at the University of Aberdeen and am working on a project titled ‘Palestine and Kashmir: A Failure of nerve at the End of Imperial Administration’. For this research I recently secured funding from the Carnegie Trust. I have extensively published in the reputed journals and newspapers. My forthcoming publications include ‘The Creation Story of Kashmiri People: The Right to Self-Determination Perspective’ (Denning Law Journal, 2009 Vol. 21 pp 1-25) and ‘From ‘Sale to Accession Deed’ - Scanning the Historiography of Kashmir 1846-1947’ (History Compass, 2009). I hold LLB (2000-03) from the Kashmir University, where I secured highly acclaimed second top position in the University. I also completed my LLM in ‘Criminal Justice and Human Rights’ (2004-05) from the University of Aberdeen with Commendation. Before coming to the United Kingdom for my higher studies I was a practicing advocate in India.
My research and teaching interests lay in the area of: Public International Law; International Human Rights; relationship between Law and Politics; Law and Literature; Conflict Resolution; Constitutional Law; Law of Torts and British Colonial History.
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