Rahul Mohanty is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, focusing on International Climate Law and Governance. He is an academic in the field of public international law with over four years of teaching and research experience, and is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University, India (currently on leave). His doctoral research focuses on issues of fairness in international climate governance.

He has taught a range of courses, including Public International Law, Theoretical approaches to International Law, International dispute settlement, International Financial Institutions, International Climate Change Law, and Environmental law, to both undergraduate and post-graduate students. He is a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University and has designed and taught several electives on theoretical approaches to international law, and international law and armed conflicts. He regularly writes on climate change law, global justice, international courts, climate finance, and Indian environmental law, among other issues. He has also served as an Assistant Editor of the Jindal Global Law Review, which is the flagship law journal of the Jindal Global Law School, and was the convener of JGLS Research Cluster on the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).

His current research interests include global governance (specifically climate governance), climate justice, international organizations, international courts, international law and the global south, and climate change law. His articles have been published in academic journals like Asian Journal of International Law, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, and Indian Law Review. Beyond academic work, he also engages with policymakers and various governmental bodies in India concerning just transition and climate adaptation.

He holds a Master’s degree in law (BCL) from the University of Oxford (OICSD-HSA Advocates scholarship awardee) and has completed his B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), a graduate degree in law from NALSAR University of Law, India (topper and 13-gold medallist). Prior to joining academia, he had also worked in India as a law firm associate and as an in-house counsel.