Professor Sanoj Rajan is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights.

He
is presently appointed as Distinguished full Professor of International Law and Human
Rights at Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China. His other affiliations include
Affiliate, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA,
Life Member Indian Society of International Law, Visiting Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh
National University, Almaty and the International Christian University at Kinshasa,
Congo.

His former academic associations include Associate Director, Humanitarian

Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at the Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, the
ICCR India Chair Visiting Professor at CUHK Faculty of Law, Hong Kong, Visiting
Professor at Al Farabi National University, Kazakhstan and the head of the Academic
Programs Division, the International Committee of the Red Cross for the South Asian
countries and Iran. He had also been the Professor and Dean at the School of Law, Ansal
University, India, Professor and Head, School of Law at North Cap University Gurgaon
and has taught law at University of Kerala during the initial period of his career. He is a
Commonwealth Scholar, and hold Ph.D., LLM in International Law, and Mst. in Human
Rights (Oxford).

He has thirty-seven publications which include books, research articles in peer-

reviewed journals, and op-eds; eighty-seven Conference presentations, seminars,
invited talks, and keynote speeches, nationally and internationally. He had also been a
Peer reviewer for the update on Official Commentaries of the 1949 Geneva Conventions
and its 1977 Additional Protocol for the ICRC Geneva and a member of the Editorial
Board of Yearbook of Indian Society of International Law. He has the credit of delivering
invited talks on International Law and Human Rights topics in more than 45 institutions
in multiple countries including Canada, USA, Hong Kong, Sweden, The Netherlands,
Australia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Iran, Thailand,
Malaysia, and India. He also holds the credit of being the first Indian to be invited to
lecture at The International Criminal Court at the Hague, The Netherlands.

He is also among the Founding Governance Board members of Statelessness

Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) and also was the co-coordinator for the core group of
experts who founded SNAP, which is an UNHCR initiative involving 50 countries in Asia
Pacific region. His research and teaching interest include International Criminal Law,
International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Refugee Law, Statelessness and
Citizenship Laws. His latest publications include; 1) Book: Global Refugee Crisis, A
Contemporary Reflection (Thomson Reuters 2018) and 2) Ending International
Surrogacy Induced Statelessness: An International Human Rights Law Perspective,
Indian Journal of International Law (IJIL), Springer Publication (October 2018)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40901-018-0092-9, 3) Handbook on IHL in India: Legislation
and Cases, Thomson Reuters, Asia Pacific (Forthcoming).