Eluckiaa Asaithambi

Assistant Professor of Law

Dr Eluckiaa Asaithambi is an Assistant Professor of Law at NALSAR University of Law, specialising in International Trade Law, International Investment Law, and the interface between economic regulation and public policy.

Her teaching is closely aligned with her research, which examines the evolving relationship between investment protection, environmental governance, and public health regulation. She holds a PhD in International Investment Law, with a doctoral focus on reconciling host state regulatory autonomy with investor protection standards.

She has authored and edited books and book chapters with leading publishers and has published in peer-reviewed law journals.

She has served as Project Director for a World Bank-sponsored research project and has contributed to policy-oriented research for the Ministry of Commerce and the Department of Justice.

At NALSAR, she is also actively involved in executive training programmes for civil servants, MOOC development (NPTEL and SWAYAM), and international academic collaborations through the Centre for International Trade and Business Laws and the Milon K. Banerji Arbitration Centre.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Law

Courses Taught

  • International Investment Law
  • International Trade Law
  • Digital Trade and the WTO
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Litigation Management
  • Law and Justice in a Globalising World
  • Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment

Select Publications

  1. “Trump’s Tariff: IEEPA, Tariff Diplomacy, and Erosion of Multilateral Trade,” Trade, Law and Development, Vol. 17(1), 2025.
  2. “Breaking the Glass Ceiling at WTO: Appointment of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the First Woman Director General,” in Women and Trade: The Indian Context, Thomson Reuters, 2024.
  3. “Combatting Corruption in Foreign Investment: Through WTO’s Investment Facilitation Agreement,” International Journal of Transparency and Accountability in Governance, 2022.
  4. Litigation Management in Higher Education: A Case Study of Odisha, EBC, 2021.
  5. “Censorship versus Right to Free Speech,” in Reclaiming Dignity, Rights and Justice: A Festschrift in Honour of Justice Dipak Misra, Thomson Reuters, 2020.
  6. “Investment Facilitation Under WTO: Is it Necessary?,” in Trade Facilitation and the WTO, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.