Mohit Khubchandani
PhD candidate / self funded
- Name
- Mr. M. Khubchandani
- Telephone
- 33 765644484
- m.khubchandani@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0000-6821-7167
Mohit Khubchandani is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. His topic is: "Forum and harm specific metrics of compensation for environmental damages (MCES) for major international courts and tribunals". He is an International Disputes Resolution Attorney with 10 years of experience in Public International Law, Investment & Commercial Arbitration. For close to 3 years, he was an Associate at the Office of the Attorney General of India, where, including others, he was involved in ICJ, ITLOS, and PCA cases, besides civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. He then worked at several UN bodies for 3 years, including at the UNOCHA, ILC and ICJ, thus, being involved in close to 10 ICJ cases. Then, he spent 3 years working at different international law firms: Fietta, GBS Disputes, and WilmerHale, working on international investment and commercial arbitrations at the ICSID, PCA, ICC, ICDR, SIAC et. al. Mohit regularly delivers guest lectures at universities and has presented at international organisations such as the African Union and the WWF. He also regularly judges the world finals and regional rounds of world renowned moot courts (including having authored the 45th edition of Leiden's Telders Moot). Mohit holds a Masters in International Environmental & Energy Law from Stanford Law.
More information about Mohit Khubchandani
Education
Ph.D Candidate, Leiden Law School (Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies),The Netherlands (2024 - Present)
LL.M., Stanford Law School (Stanford University), California, USA (2017-18)
B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.), Amity Law School (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University), New Delhi, India (2010-15)
Career
International Disputes Attorney with 10 years PQE. Experiences:
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, London, UK [Jan, 2023 - Aug, 2024]
- Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes, Paris, France [Jul, 2022 - Dec, 2022]
- United Nations International Law Commission, Geneva, Switzerland [Jan, 2022 - Jun, 2022] & [Sep, 2019 - Aug, 2020]
- Fietta LLP - International Law, London, UK [Aug, 2021 - Jan, 2022]
- International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands [Sep, 2020 - Aug, 2021]
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), New York, USA [Mar, 2019 - Oct, 2019]
- Chambers of Justice Lisa A. Sokoloff, New York State Supreme Court (Civil Branch), USA [Mar, 2019 - Aug, 2019]
- Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York, USA [Nov, 2018 - Feb, 2019]
- Prof. Jonathan Greenberg, International Investment Law, Stanford Law School, California, USA [Aug, 2018 - Oct, 2018]
- Office of the Attorney General for the Republic of India, Mr Mukul Rohatgi, New Delhi, India [Mar, 2015 - Aug, 2017]
Research Areas
Law of Reparations, Environmental Compensation in the context of Inter-State Litigation & Investor-State Litigation
Teaching Activities
Have given lectures and presented in conferences on public international law and investment arbitration in English and French at these institutions and universities: Stetson, Leiden, African Union, WWF, Stanford, University of Angers (France), Universidad de la Empresa (Argentina)
Additional Activities
Regularly adjudicate and coach teams of the world and regional rounds of these moots: Jessup, FDI, Stetson, Manfred Lachs, Willem C. Vis, Frankfurt Arb. etc
PhD candidate / self funded
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Khubchandani M. (13 September 2023), As the first country to land on the moon’s south pole, should India also be the first space power to ratify the moon agreement?. EJIL:Talk! (European Journal of International Law). [blog entry].
- Khubchandani M. (17 October 2022), The Pandora’s box of Article 63 interventions in the Ukraine v. Russia dispute at the ICJ: the need for joint interventions to strike a balance. Opinio Juris (International Commission of Jurists). [blog entry].
- Khubchandani M. (2022), Case concerning the compensation due from the exploded M2M satellite's space debris: 45th Telders International Law Moot Court Competition. Leiden: Telders International Law Moot Court Competition (Leiden University, Grotius Centre forInternational Legal Studies). [other].
- Khubchandani M. (2 February 2021), Biden-Harris back to Paris: a free pass from the past? An international legal perspective on the reparations still due. International Law Under Construction. Groningen: Groningen Journal of International Law (University of Groningen). [blog entry].
- Khubchandani M. (6 April 2020), Did not even ‘bat’ an eye on China?: a case at the international court of justice to prevent China from re-opening wet-bat markets in wake of the COVID-19 furore. International law blog: fresh perspectives on international law. London (Middlesex University). [blog entry].
- Khubchandani M. (11 April 2020), A case more curious than the curious Case Of Benjamin button: the relationship of general principles of law with other sources in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. International Law Blog. Bhopal: Centre for Research in International Law (National Law Institute University). [blog entry].
- Khubchandani M. (2019), The United States and the Paris agreement on climate change, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online 22: 70-82.
- Khubchandani M. & Parti M. (2016), Cultural Rights v. Species Protection: A case study of pacific leatherback sea turtles, Seattle Journal of Environmental Law 6(1): 161-187 (7).
- Khubchandani M. & Parti M. (2015), Counsel Disqualification: Indian and international arbitration perspectives, Arbitration 81(3): 267-275.