Eklavya Vasudev
Eklavya Vasudev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence „Transforming Human Rights“ at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He completed his doctorate in law at FAU (summa cum laude) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat, with a dissertation titled Judging Transformation: Navigating Uncertainty in Climate Litigation Through Transformative Constitutionalism. During his doctorate, he was an associated member of the IDP, financed by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and from 2024 to 2025 served as a co-coordinator of the Programme. He also supervises at the FAU Business and Human Rights Law Clinic. His postdoctoral research examines how international investment law constrains, transforms, and offers a diagnostic frame for understanding human rights when they are invoked to justify climate and environmental regulation, with a comparative focus on Germany, India, and South Africa. Eklavya is co-editor of the Business and Human Rights Journal Blog and a coordinating member of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Law and Technology. Before joining FAU, he read for an LLM at Georgetown University Law Center as a Georgetown Law Merit Scholar, and worked across constitutional, environmental, and human rights litigation in India, including as counsel in the chambers of former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium, judicial clerk to Justice S. Muralidhar at the Delhi High Court, and Senior Associate (Legal) at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He has held visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Tilburg University, the University of Vienna, Europa-Universität Flensburg, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná.