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Vik Kanwar, J.D., LL.M., Cand.
J.S.D.
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Vik Kanwar is an attorney and legal scholar researching in
the areas of international jurisprudence and the legal regulation of
collective violence. He is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and
J.S.D. Candidate at NYU School of Law. Under the direction
of Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Martti Koskenniemi, Vik is
completing a dissertation entitled “The Politics of Necessity: The International
Sources of Emergency Governance,” in which he theorizes and
historicizes some longstanding problems of national “states of
emergency” in light of recent comparative constitutional theory and
international law. His continuing research agenda includes a history of
the role of “victims’ rights” movements in the
development of modern international criminal justice, and work on
pedagogical responses to the doctrinal “fragmentation” of
international law. He also writes broadly on topics concerning recent
political and intellectual history.
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Vik was born in Nigeria and
grew up in the United
States. He came to NYU with
an academic background in social theory, a first law degree concentrating
on constitutional and international law, and a year of practical background
in human rights and civil rights law. He is formerly Program Assistant at
the Hauser Global Law School Program, and
in academic year 2002-03, he held the Lobel Research Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights,
where he was previously an Ella Baker Fellow. His recent publications
include “International Emergency Governance:
Fragments of a Driverless System” (Critical
Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory, Berkeley 2004, Special
Issue on States of Emergency), and “Capital Punishment as Closure:
The Limits of a Victim-Centered Jurisprudence” (NYU Review of Law
and Social Change, 2001-02). Forthcoming publications include book
reviews in Global Law Books and I-CON: The International Journal of Constitutional Law (2005).
His publications have been translated into French and Portuguese.
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