Prof. Leïla Choukroune
Leïla Choukroune is Professor of International Law and Director of the Global Justice and Rights Centre of Excellence of the University of Portsmouth (UK).
Her research focuses on the interactions between international trade and investment law, human rights, development studies, jurisprudence, and social theory. It is applied to the Global South (India, South Asia, China, and East Africa). She has published more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters in English, French, Spanish or Mandarin Chinese and authored more than 15 books, including recently, Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law (2016), and Exploring Indian Modernities (2018), Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy (2020-21), Adjudicating Businesses in India, (2021), International Economic Law (2021 and Second Edition in 2026), The SDGS and International Investment Law, Handbook of the Law and Policy of the Blue Economy (2026).
She is Editor in Chief of
- International Law and the Global South (Springer)
- Human Rights, Citizenship, and the Law (Routledge)
- Journal of International Trade Law and Policy (Emerald)
- Blue Economy Review (Emerald)
in Editorial Board of
-Journal of World Investment and Trade (Brill)
She is the co-Chair of the South Asia International Economic Law Network (SAIELN).
Professor Leïla Choukroune is regularly solicited as an independent expert.
She is a listed arbitrator and mediator. She is an independent board member for Trademark Africa.
She is Officer of “l’Ordre du mérité”.
She was Director of the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), a research unit of the CNRS based in New Delhi (India), Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University (Netherlands); Deputy Director of the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation (IGIR) and Director of the Advanced Master in international economic law ; Assistant Professor at HEC Paris; Consultant for the OECD, Lecturer at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Researcher at the CEFC a unit of the CNRS in Hong Kong.
Professor Choukroune holds a Doctorate in international law (Suma Cum Laude – highest honour unanimously awarded with no correction) from the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and is a qualified lawyer to the Paris Bar.
She is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, speaks Chinese, German, and Hindi.
She has worked in six higher education systems over the world and has grown an impressive professional network.
She has developed unique intercultural skills to negotiate with and advise academic institutions, governments, industries, and civil society.
