Faculty Profile

Dr. Animesh Das is working as an Assistant Professor of Law in Xavier Law School, Kolkata since 2019. He completed his Ph.D. from National Law University Delhi. He completed his B.A.LL.B. from the University of Calcutta. and subsequently his LL.M. from the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. He has over 10 years of experience in teaching law at various law schools. He has worked and published research papers in the field of International Investment law, International Trade Law and Competition Law. His papers are published both in India and abroad. He has also participated in several conferences across the country and abroad. Noteworthy among them is the Human Rights and International Investment Law PhD Workshop, organised by Erusmus University, Netherlands in October 2022, the Workshop on Issues in South Asian Public Law organised by Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University in 2022, and the Summer School on Comparative Law at Fondazione Giambattista Vico, Italy, organised by the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ in 2018 where he was selected to present his doctoral thesis. Dr. Das is also the recipient of the prestigious Full-Term CentrallyAdministered Doctoral Fellowship 2016-17 from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Human Resource Department, Govt. of India.

• Ph.D
• LL.M.
• B.A.LL.B.

• Assistant Professor of Law, at School of Law, KIIT (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar from 3rd July 2017- 17th September 2019
• Visting Professor, Symbiosis Law School, Noida, from 30th December 2016 - 30th May 2017
• Fellow, Indian Council For Social Science Research, from 3rd January 2017 - 2nd July 2017
• Assistant Professor of Law and Head of the Dept., at School of Juridical Science, JIS University, Kolkata from 24th August 2015- 30th November 2016
• Assistant Professor of Law at Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University from 7th July 2014-15th June 2015

• Professor-in-Charge of B.Com.LL.B.(Hons) from 1st February 2022 to 30th June 2025
• Professor-in-Charge of XSLAJ from August 2020 to June 2025
• Member, Academic Council, from July 2022 to June 2025
• Secretary, Faculty Council, from 1st July 2024 to 30th June 2027

• Das, Animesh, ‘Mapping Human Rights Obligations in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Decoupling by Tribunals’ (2024) 15(2) IJIEL, DOI: doi.org/10.55496/UPYP8884
• Das, Animesh ‘Human Rights Obligations in Bilateral Investment Treaties – The South Asian Experience’ (2023) 20(3) MJIEL 436.
• Das, Animesh, ‘India: Investment Treaty Arbitration and Enforcement of Award’ in Sarah Biddulph and Kathryn Taylor (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Asian Law (Edward Elgar 2026)
• Das, Animesh ‘Changing Dimensions of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in India – Protecting the regulatory power of the ‘Host-State’?’ (2022) 19(2) MJIEL 155
• Das, Animesh '‘Greed’ Or ‘Ethics’: how difficult is it to set the priority in International Trade?', in Limone Giuseppe (ed.), 9 L'era di Antigone (Franco Angeli Milan, 2017), 191

• ICSSR Full-Term Centrally-Administered Doctoral Fellowship 2016-17