Dr. Abhishek Mishra is a legal academic, author and scholar of public international law, currently serving as Associate Professor at the India International University of Legal Education and Research (IIULER), Goa. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Hamburg, Germany, an LL.M. from the National University of Singapore, and a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore. His doctoral research was undertaken at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, University of Hamburg, with doctoral scholarship support.
Dr. Mishra has taught at several institutions, including WBNUJS, Kolkata, KIIT and De Montfort University Kazakhstan. He also interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), gaining exposure to international criminal law and international institutions. His research has received international scholarship and grant support from institutions in Germany, Switzerland and Israel.
His teaching and research interests include Public International Law, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, International Investment Law, financial market regulation and the Law of Evidence. His scholarship explores state power, the right to life, extrajudicial killings, democracy and constitutionalism.
He authored Regulatory Mechanism for the Capital Market in India (Thomson Reuters, 2020), with forthcoming books on extrajudicial killings and the right to life, and Public International Law. At IIULER, he has served as Controller of Examinations, Chairperson of the Undergraduate Council and Faculty-in-Charge of the International Moot Court Society. He has also contributed as a resource person to police training on India’s evolving criminal laws, organised in association with EY and the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
Dr. Mishra is a mentor to the firm and contributes his expertise across a wide spectrum of subject matters, professional engagements, and areas including Arbitration, Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism, International Investment Law, and Securities and Financial Market Regulation, among others.
