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Prof. (Dr.) Saloni Khanderia

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BA.LLB (Symbiosis Law School)

LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore)

LLM (cum laude) (University of Johannesburg)

Ph.D (NLU, Delhi)

 

Biography

Prof. (Dr) Saloni Khanderia is a comparative private international law scholar whose work examines how domestic legal systems respond to the structural pressures of transnational commerce, regulatory pluralism, and global legal harmonisation. She is a Full Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University.
     
Her research situates Indian private international law within broader comparative and transnational frameworks, engaging European, Commonwealth, BRICS, and Asian jurisdictions. She interrogates foundational questions in conflict of laws — jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, party autonomy, and the normative role of soft law — while also addressing contemporary regulatory challenges, including cross-border consumer protection, product liability, autonomous technologies, and contractual performance during systemic crises.

Beyond its theoretical contribution, her scholarship is designed to serve as a structured resource for courts, litigators, and policymakers navigating complex cross-border disputes. Her work provides doctrinal clarity on enforcement standards, waiver of sovereign immunity, commercial exceptions, and transnational contract interpretation — areas of growing relevance for Indian courts, government entities, and commercial actors engaged in international transactions. By mapping comparative approaches and identifying normative inconsistencies, her research offers principled frameworks capable of informing litigation strategy, judicial reasoning, and legislative reform.

She is co-author of Indian Private International Law (Hart Publishing, 2021), widely regarded as a leading modern account of the field, and co-editor of Private International Law in BRICS: Convergences, Divergences and Reciprocal Lessons (Hart Publishing, 2024), which advances comparative dialogue among major emerging economies. Her work has appeared in leading international journals, including the Journal of Private International Law, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ), the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and the Journal of African Law.

An Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Experienced Researcher), she has held visiting and research appointments at leading institutions across Germany, Italy, Singapore, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Her broader research agenda seeks to develop coherent, predictable, and institutionally workable frameworks for cross-border dispute resolution that reconcile domestic sovereignty with transnational commercial integration.
 

Advanced Cross-Border Dispute Resolution; Comparative Transnational Litigation; Comparative International Sale of Goods Law; Peculiar Predicaments in the Resolution of International Commercial Disputes; International Commercial Law; and Law of Contracts (I and II); Navigating Cross-Border Disputes: Jurisdiction, Enforcement and Strategic Choices (CTLS, London); Transnational Contract Law (CTLS, London) (co-taught with Prof Catherine Valke, University of Toronto).

  1. Award for Research Excellence: O P Jindal Global University – Eleventh Anniversary and Celebration of University Day (2021).
  2. Award for Research Excellence: O P Jindal Global University – Tenth Anniversary and Celebration of University Day (2020).
  3. Research Focus 2019 – Recognised as an ‘academic changing the world’ by the Jindal Global Law School for excellent contribution to research.
  4. Award for Research Excellence: O P Jindal Global University – Ninth Anniversary and Celebration of University Day (2018).
  5. Second LL.M in International Commercial Law, University of Johannesburg has been fully funded by the Research Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Countries (RCPILEC™), University of Johannesburg, for excellent contribution, in terms of research, as a postdoctoral fellow for the Centre.


Fellowships, Scholarships and Grants

  1. Max Planck Scholarship to pursue research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private International Law, Hamburg from 15 May 2023 to 31 July 2023.  
  2. Short-Term Research Grant awarded by the OP Jindal Global University to research on ‘The Role of Private International Law in the Adjudication of Cross-Border Civil and Commercial Disputes in BRICS’ from 1 June 2023 to 30 November 2023.
  3. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for a period of 14 months (29 November 2020 – 31 January 2022) (including the intensive German language course) to conduct research on private international law at –the Centre for Private International Law, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München.
  4. National Research Foundation Innovation Fellowship (2017)  (Could not be accepted due to present employment at JGLS).
  5. Global Excellence and Stature (GES) Fellowship, 2016, for conducting postdoctoral research with the Department of Mercantile Law (Portfolio: International Commercial Law): University of Johannesburg, for a period of one year. 
  6. UNIDROIT Research Scholarship Programme 2016, Rome (for a period of five weeks), to conduct research on “The Role of UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts in the Law of India.”
  7. Global Excellence and Stature (GES) Fellowship, 2015, for conducting postdoctoral research with the Department of Mercantile Law (Portfolio: International Commercial Law): University of Johannesburg, for a period of one year.
  8. Second LL.M in International Commercial Law, University of Johannesburg has been fully funded by the Research Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Countries (RCPILEC™), University of Johannesburg, for excellent contribution, in terms of research, as a postdoctoral fellow for the Centre.

Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg (South Africa) Dept. of Mercantile Law (Portfolio: International Commercial Law)

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1 April 2015 – 31 December 2016
  • Visiting Senior Research Associate, 1 August 2018 – 31 August 2018
  • Visiting Associate Professor, 1 September 2018 – 30 September 2022
  • Visiting Professor, 1 October 2022 – 1 November 2024

Monash University, Australia – Prato Programme
Visiting Professor for Transnational Litigation
3 June – 28 June 2019

Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München.
Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (Experienced Researcher)
1 January 2021 – 31 January 2022

Faculty of Law, University of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Visiting Professor
20 November 2022 – 1 December 2022

Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Gatwissenschaftlerin
15 May 2023 – 31 July 2023

Faculty of Law, University of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Visiting Professor
20 November 2023 – 1 December 2023

Yung Pow How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Visiting Scholar
6 January 2024 – 20 January 2024

Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University, Japan
Visiting Professor
1 July 2024 – 31 July 2024

Chair for Private Law, Commercial and Business Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law, University of Münster
Visiting Scholar (Schumann Fellow)
20 November 2024 – 20 January 2025

Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC, King’s College, London campus
Visiting Professor (Faculty Mobility Programme)
1 August 2025 – 1 December 2025

Saloni Khanderia, “From Symbolism to Substance: Comity and Judicial Reform in South Africa’s Foreign Judgments Regime” (forthcoming, 2026) Journal of African Law.

Saloni Khanderia, “From Domestic Courts to Transnational Justice: An Examination of India’s Conflict of Laws within a Comparative Asian Framework” (forthcoming, 2026) Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ)/The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law.

Saloni Khanderia, “Thorn in the Lion’s Paw: Révision au fond as India’s Self-Inflicted Injury in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments” (forthcoming, 2026) Asian Journal of Comparative Law.

Encyclopaedia of Private International Law, ‘India’ (Giesela Rühl et al. eds.) (2nd edn, 2026) Edward Elgar Publications: the UK.

Académie Internationale de Droit Compare (International Academy of Comparative Law), ‘India’ in “The Effectiveness of International Legal Harmonization through Soft Law” (Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Geneviève Saumier and Lauro Gama eds) (2025) pp. 368-393 Brill Publications: The Netherlands.

Académie Internationale de Droit Compare (International Academy of Comparative Law), ‘India’ in “Autonomous Vehicles and the Law” (Gilles Pillet eds) (2025) pp. 460-492 Brill Publications: The Netherlands.

Saloni Khanderia, “Beyond Borders: Unravelling the Territorial Scope of Consumer Protection Laws in India” (2025) Indian Law Review.

Académie Internationale de Droit Compare (International Academy of Comparative Law), ‘India’ in “New Specialised Commercial Courts and Their Role in Cross-Border Litigation”, (Yip Man and Giesela Rühl eds) (2024) pp. 329-376 Intersentia: Cambridge.

Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia (eds), Private International Law in BRICS: Convergences, Divergences and Reciprocal Lessons (Hart Publications, 2024) (editor names listed in alphabetical order) (Scopus-Indexed).

Saloni Khanderia, “The Recognition of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards in Civil and Commercial Matters: India”, in Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia (eds.), Private International Law in BRICS: Convergences, Divergences and Reciprocal Lessons (Hart Publications, 2024).

Saloni Khanderia, “The Identification of the Applicable Law in Civil and Commercial Matters: India”, in Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia (eds.), Private International Law in BRICS: Convergences, Divergences and Reciprocal Lessons (Hart Publications, 2024).

Saloni Khanderia, “The Initiation of Claims in Civil and Commercial Matters: India”, in Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia (eds.), Private International Law in BRICS: Convergences, Divergences and Reciprocal Lessons (Hart Publications, 2024).

Saloni Khanderia, “The Law Applicable to Documentary Letters of Credit in India: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma?” (2024) 20(1) Journal of Private International Law 26–67.

Saloni Khanderia, “Termination for Breach of Contract: The Prospects of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts to Interpret and Supplement the Indian Law” (2023) 27(4) Uniform Law Review 512–542.

Saloni Khanderia, “Driverless Cars and the Determination of the Manufacturer’s Liability for Injuries: Is India Ready?” (2023) 32(3) Information and Communications Technology Law 356–384.

Saloni Khanderia, “Self-Driving Cars and Some (Unintended) Regulatory Barriers in India: A Road Less Travelled?” (2022) 15(2) Journal of Tort Law 177–214.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Ambivalent Notion of ‘Fundamental Breach’ in Indian Law of Contract: Towards a New Paradigm” (2022) 43(1) Liverpool Law Review 391–420.

Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia, Indian Private International Law (Hart Publications – Studies in Private International Law – Asia Series, 2021) (author names listed in alphabetical order).

Saloni Khanderia, “Practice Does Not Make Perfect: Rethinking the Doctrine of ‘the Proper Law of the Contract’ – A Case for the Indian Courts?” (2021) 16(3) Journal of Private International Law 423–450.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Prevalence of ‘Jurisdiction’ in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in India and South Africa: A Comparative Analysis” (2021) 21(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 181–211.

Sagi Peari and Saloni Khanderia, “Party Autonomy in the Choice of Law: Some Insights from Australia” (2021) 42(2) Liverpool Law Review 275–296.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Question of the Applicable Law in Cross-Border Claims on Product Liability: Reflections from India” (2021) 22(1) Global Jurist 19–47.

Saloni Khanderia, “Transnational Contracts and their Performance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Reflections from India” (2020) 7(3) BRICS Law Journal 52–80.

Saloni Khanderia and Sagi Peari, “Party Autonomy in the Choice of Law under Indian and Australian Private International Law: Some Reciprocal Lessons” (2020) 46(4) Commonwealth Law Bulletin 711–740.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Ascertainment of the Applicable Law in the Absence of Choice in India and South Africa: A Shared Future in the BRICS” (2020) 20(1) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 27–51.

Saloni Khanderia, “Weighing India’s Trade Facilitation Commitments in the Light of WTO Disciplines”, in Jane Winn and Sheila Rai (eds.), Trade Facilitation and the WTO, pp. 106–165 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019).

Saloni Khanderia, “The Hague Judgments Project: Assessing its Plausible Benefits for the Development of the Indian Private International Law” (2019) 44(3) Commonwealth Law Bulletin 452–475.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Hague Conference on Private International Law’s Proposed Draft Text on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Should South Africa Endorse It?” (2019) 63(3) Journal of African Law 413–443.

Saloni Khanderia, “International Approaches as Plausible Solutions to Resolving the Battle of Forms under the Indian Law of Contract” (2019) 8(1) Global Journal of Comparative Law 1–26.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements and the Enforcement of Forum-Selection Clauses in Indian Private International Law” (2019) 9(3) International Journal of Private Law 125–136.

Saloni Khanderia, “The WTO’s Special Safeguard Mechanism: An Indian Perspective to the Present Paradox” (2018) 3(1) University of Bologna Law Review 1–23.

Saloni Khanderia, “Indian Private International Law vis-à-vis Party Autonomy in the Choice of Law” (2018) 18(1) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 1–15.

Saloni Khanderia, “Commercial Impracticability under the Indian Law of Contract: Assessing the Role of the UNIDROIT Principles” (2018) 7(2) UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 52–71.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Information Technology Agreement and the ‘Make-in-India’ Initiative: Weighing the Better Alternative” (2018) 53(2) Foreign Trade Review 1–18.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Compatibility of South African Anti-Dumping Laws with WTO Disciplines: Does the Devil Lie in the Details?” (2017) 25(3) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 347–370.

Saloni Khanderia, “Trade Facilitation: An Assessment of South African Realities vis-à-vis WTO Disciplines” (2016) 60(3) Journal of African Law 441–467.

Saloni Khanderia, “The Determination of Injury in South African Anti-Dumping Investigations: Recent Approaches” (2016) 49(2) Comparative and International Law Journal of South Africa 247–281.

Saloni Khanderia, “Price Comparisons under the South African Anti-Dumping Laws: The Faux Pas Continues?” (2016) 52(1) Foreign Trade Review 30–57.

Saloni Khanderia, The World Trade Organization and Global Competition Policy (Mohan Law House Publication, 2015).

Saloni Khanderia, “What the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade Facilitation Would Mean to Emerging Economies” (2015) 12(1) Manchester Journal of International Trade Law 38–58.

Saloni Khanderia, “Reflections on the India–Agricultural Products Dispute in the Light of ‘Risk Assessment’ and the SPS Agreement: Why Has India Failed so Miserably?” (2015) 16(2) Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 78–110.

Saloni Khanderia, “Are the WTO’s Rules of Origin Turning to Be Archaic as a Result of Trade in Value-Added?” (2014) 15(2) Estey Centre Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 162–178.

Saloni Khanderia, “Ramifications of the Bali Ministerial Conference on Food Security and Public Stockholding: Is India Skating on Thin Ice?” (2014) 11(2) Manchester Journal of International Economic Law 201–214.

Saloni Khanderia, “Negotiations on Trade and Competition Policy under the Auspices of the World Trade Organization: An Indian Perspective of Emerging Issues” (2014) 8 Pretoria Student Law Review 65–93.

Saloni Khanderia, “Is Regionalism ‘Softly’ Killing the WTO’s Multilateral Agenda” (2014) XXII(2) Currents International Trade Law Journal 9–16.

Saloni Khanderia, “Trade and Competition Policy: An Indian Perspective on the Concerns Pertaining to the Rising Implications on Policy-Space” (2013) 1(2) International Journal of Politics and Law Research 26–31.

Saloni Khanderia, “Multilateralism in Competition Policy: An Unassailable Pedestal for a World of Free Trade?” (2013) 1(1) Galgotia’s Journal of Legal Studies 98–113.

Puneet Yadav and Saloni Khanderia, “Corporate Social Responsibility: The Why and How in India” (2012) 1(1) Symbiosis Law Review 69–80.

Saloni Khanderia and Puneet Yadav, “Trade and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal,” in Shveta Dhaliwal (ed.), Human Rights Advocacy: Global Approaches, Local Experiences, pp. 339–349 (Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, 2011).
Email skhanderia@jgu.edu.in
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