Honours/Membership

• Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain

• Hague University Faculty Member, the Netherlands

• Visiting Scholar, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Invitee)

• Visiting Associate Professor, University of Malaya, Malaysia

• Visiting Professor  & Eminent Scholar Member, Gujarat National Law University, India

• Adjunct Professor, Sardar Patel University, V. V. Nagar, India

• Visiting Professor & Advisor, MIT School of Government, Pune, India

• Member, International Law Association Committee on Teaching of International Law

• Life Member and Honorary European Coordinator, Indian Society of International Law

• Member, American, Australian-New Zealand, Indian, European Society of International Law, International Law Association, Netherlands Association of International Law (NVIR)

Lectures

• Cambridge University, UK

• Hague Academy of International Law, the Netherlands

• Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands

• Erasmus University of Rotterdam School of Law, the Netherlands

• University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

• University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

• University of Auckland, New Zealand

• University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

• National Law University, Jodhpur, India

An international civil servant - administrator:

Mr Patel has extensive international administrative knowledge and experience of serving the UN, an international tribunal and an international NGO. Mr Patel has experience in designing and implementing international and national development and research programmes and projects and networking and coordination with governmental agencies, UN bodies and academic/research institutions in various parts of the world. Mr Patel brings excellent experience of serving various international legal research committees and organizational staff-management bodies.

Vision:

Director Patel has played a prime mover role and successfully advocated the establishment of Regional Facility of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the oldest arbitration court in the world, in New Delhi and India’s membership in the Hague Conference on Private International Law with an aim to make New Delhi as Capital of Law in Asia. He is committed to promote the use of teaching, education and research of international law in international relations, international commerce and trade. Recognising India’s emerging role in world affairs and importance of international law to ensure the momentum, he would like to promote that practitioners and students of national laws of India have good understanding of latest development of international law in their respective areas of profession – Promotion of Importance of International Law in National Judicial System, Legal Profession and Education..

Current research interests

• International Law & International Organisations
• Indian state practice on international law (policy and practice of India)
• International Courts and Tribunals
• Foreign Policy and International Law
• Public-Private Partnership in Legal Education, Research and Training
• Disarmament
• Human Rights

Selected publications

Books

• The World Court Reference Guide: Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the PCIJ and ICJ (1922-2000) – Kluwer Law International 2002 (Introduction by Shabtai Rosenne), Nominee of the Certificate of Merits Award of the American Society of International Law

• India and International Law (volume 1), Brill (2005)

•  A Comprehensive Guide on the Laws of Human Rights in Commonwealth Countries, Wadhwa (2007)

• India and International Law (volume 2), Brill (2008)

Selected articles/research Papers:

• India and the United Nations Reform (2005-2006): An Insightful Interplay between International Relations and International Law, in Bimal N. Patel (ed.) India and International Law vol. 2, 49-97 (Nijhoff: Leiden, 2008)

• Recommendations on the Enhancement of Role and Effectiveness of the International Court of Justice and the State Practice: Gap between Recommendations and Practice (1971 – 2006), Singapore Yearbook of International Law 2008

• Some Reflections from Personal Experience on the Promotion of Teaching and Research of International Law, Indian Society of International Law International Seminar, 10 December 2007

• The Concept of Peace Dividend and the Chemical Weapons Disarmament (42 Indian Journal of International Law 2 (2005)

• International Court of Justice and India in Bimal N. Patel (ed.) India and International Law (2005), 289-318 (Nijhoff: Leiden, 2005)

• Can India afford to remain a non-member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law? (Second International Law Conference, Indian Society of International Law Proceedings, November 2004)

• Principles and Practices of “Good Governance” and the Chemical Weapons Convention: Role of the OPCW (Sixth Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law 2003)

• Resolution 1540 and the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003 African Yearbook of International Law)

• La Cour Internationale de Justice plus sollicitée et plus active que jamais, Revue d’analyse juridique de l’actualité internationale (Année 2002)

• Judicial and Administrative Activities of the ICJ - Year 2001 (42 Indian Journal of International Law 3 (2002)

• Renaissance of the International Court of Justice: An overview of the judicial and administrative activities of the ICJ in 2000, 41 Indian Journal of International Law 2 (2001)

• Theory and Practice: Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention Destruction Regime under the Chemical Weapons Convention, 11 The Non-Proliferation Analysis Journal Summer (2000)

• Accountability of International Organisations: A Case Study of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 13 Leiden Journal of International Law 3 (2000)

• Protection Zones in International Humanitarian Law, 4 Indian Journal of International Law 39 (1999)

• Do the rules of evidence and procedure of the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia ensure a fair trial?, 3 Indian Journal of International Law 39 (1999)

Recognizing the enormous political, legal and constitutional importance of India’s policy and practical approach on multilateral and bilateral treaties, He has initiated a project on Treaty Law and Practice of India.

Mr Patel has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, Africa, America and Pacific for academic, research, and organizational purposes.

Family: Mrs Rajnika (Rupal) Patel provides valuable research and coordination support in all projects and activities to Mr Patel. Nand (Om) and Pruthvi-Gerben (Bittu) are their two sons.