PhD (Sydney)
Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
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Research Interests
- Business and Human Rights
- India-China Constitutional Law
- International Human Rights
- Sustainable Development
- Gender Dimensions of New Technologies
Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School. Deva is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of business and human rights. He a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Deva has advised UN agencies, governments, multinational corporations, and civil society organisations on issues related to business and human rights. He also researches in the areas of India-China constitutional law, international human rights law, sustainable development, and gender dimensions of new technologies. Deva has published extensively in areas of his research expertise (see SSRN).
He has presented over 100 papers at international conferences and workshops, and delivered keynote address at several conferences such as those organised by the Council of Europe, National Human Rights Commission of Korea, University of Oslo, Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, LAWASIA, Korea University Human Rights Center, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Deva was invited to speak at the 110th American Society of International Law Annual Meeting (2016), one of the most prestigious annual conferences in the field of international law. Deva has also delivered seminars and guest lectures at institutions such as University College Oxford, Essex Law School, UCL Faculty of Laws, British Academy, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Duke Law School, University of Oslo, University of Vienna, University of Cape Town, University of Heidelberg, Seoul National University, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Singapore, Renmin University of China Law School, University of Hong Kong, UNSW Faculty Law, and Sydney Law School.
Prior to joining Macquarie, Deva was an Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Previously he taught at the University of Delhi and the National Law Institute University Bhopal. He holds BA (Hons) Political Science, LLB and LLM from the University of Delhi and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, the Indian Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2014-18; 2018-22).
Further information about Deva’s research and publications is available here.