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federalism, conflict resolution, international law, human rights
Switzerland, India, Myanmar [Burma], Nepal

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Employment (5)

Université de Fribourg Institut du Fédéralisme: Fribourg, Fribourg, CH

2015-02-01 to present | Senior Research Fellow (International Research and Consulting Centre)
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority: Bern, Bern, CH

2011-01-01 to 2015-01-31 | Specialist, Qualitative Risk Management (Insurance)
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

Université de Fribourg Institut du Fédéralisme: Fribourg, Fribourg, CH

2009-10-01 to 2010-11-01 | Senior Research Fellow
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University of St Gallen Law School: St Gallen, St Gallen, CH

2006-10-01 to 2009-09-01 | Research Assistant, (Chair for Law and Economics, Public, International and European Law, Prof. Anne van Aaken)
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University of St. Gallen: Saint Gallen, St. Gallen, CH

2001-05-01 to 2002-05-30 | Research Assistant (Chair for Public International Law, International Economic Law and European Law, Prof. Juliane Kokott)
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Education and qualifications (4)

University of Bern: Bern, Bern, CH

2018 | MLaw (Faculty of Law)
Education
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University of St. Gallen: Saint Gallen, St. Gallen, CH

2009 | Dr. iur. (Faculty of Law)
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University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, GB

2001 | LL.M. International Law (Department of Law)
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University of Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, IN

1999 | LL.B. (Department of Law)
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Funding (1)

"The International Law of Development-Induced Displacement"

2006 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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Works (29)

‘Insurance Core Principles’, in Krista Nadakavukaren, Thomas Cottier (et.al) (Eds.), Encyclopedia of International Economic Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

2017 | Encyclopedia entry
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Vanessa Rüeegger and Rekha Oleschak-Pillai, ‘State Secession in International Law and the 2011 Referendum in the Sudan’, in M. Gredig, et. al (eds) Peters Dreiblatt: Föderalismus ¦Grundrechte ¦ Verwaltung, Festschrift für Peter Hänni zum 60. Geburtstag, Bern (Stämpfli 2010)

2010 | Book chapter
Contributors: Rekha Oleschak-Pillai; Vanessa Rüeegger
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‘Accountability of International Organisations: A Review of the World Bank's Inspection Panel’, in J. Wouters et. al (eds) Accountability for Human Rights Violations by International Organisations, pp. 401-430 (Intersentia 2010)

2010 | Book chapter
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

The International Law of Development-Induced Displacement

2009 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

"Christine Kaufmann, Globalisation and Labour Rights: The Conflict between Core Labour Rights and International Economic Law’, in Aussenwirtschaft pp.104-107, 2008.

Book review
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Eva Maria Belser, Fabrizio Crameri, Rekha Oleschak-Pillai, ‘Engendering Courts: Addressing Diversity in the Swiss Federal Judiciary’ in R. Toniatti (et al eds) “Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: The Temptations of a Reflective Judiciary” (2018)

Interactive resource
Contributors: Rekha Oleschak-Pillai; Eva Maria Belser; Fabrizio Crameri
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Eva Maria Belser, Rekha Oleschak-Pillai, ‘Engagement of Swiss Courts with International Law: Looking at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and its Ways of Dealing with Conflicts between Domestic Law and International Human Rights Guarantees’, (Forthcoming Oxford University Press)

in A Tzanakopolous (et al eds) International Law in Domestic Courts,
Book chapter
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Federalism and Decentralisation in India, Presentation to a delegation from Afghanistan, Fribourg, 2009

Lecture
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Input on the Workshop on Good Governance, Parliament and Democracy, organized by the Institute of Federalism and Institute for Policy Interaction in Blantyre, Malawi, March 2009

Lecture
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Offshoring: An Innovative Approach to Denying Application of International Legal Obligations?’ published in the Indian Law Institute's Silver Jubilee Publication, ‘Criminal Justice under Stress: Transnational Perspectives’ (2006, ILI New Delhi)

Book chapter
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

Outsourcing Responsibility: International Law Challenges raised by the use of Private Military and Security Companies’, in P. Jüchli, M. Wuermli and D. Haunreiter (eds), Sicherheit als wirtschaftliches, rechtliches und kulturelles Phänomen (Stämpfli Bern 2008)

Book chapter
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

Presentation of Country Report on Switzerland, ILA Study Group on on the Engagement of National Courts with International Law Concluding Conference (with Eva Maria Belser), Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, 26-27 November 2015

Conference paper
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

Presentations on Comparative Federalism to two delegations of civil servants from India, Fribourg, February 2009

Lecture
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

Report on Switzerland, with Eva Maria Belser, for the International Law Association, Working Group on International Law in Domestic Courts, November 2013, London

Report
Contributors: Rekha Oleschak-Pillai; Eva Maria Belser
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘Accountability of International Organisations: A Review of the World Bank's Inspection Panel’, paper presented at the conference on the Accountability of International Organisations, Brussels, March 2007

Conference paper
Contributors: Rekha Oleschak-Pillai
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘Compendium of documents relating to separation of assets and liabilities in international law’, with Lorenzo Pagnamenta and Franziska Sigrist: Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs for use by delegations from North and South Sudan, October-November 2010, Fribourg

Report
Contributors: Rekha Oleschak-Pillai; Franziska Sigrist; Lorenzo Pagnamenta
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘Export Credit Agencies- An International Law Perspective’, paper presented at the Assistententagung Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht 2007, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien, Vienna June 2007

Conference paper
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies - Extraterritorial Obligations of Home States of Investors’, in A. Reinisch and C. Knahr (eds), International Investment Law in Context (Eleven Publishing, 2008)

Book chapter
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‘Human Rights Law in Conflict with Direct Democracy: Dealing with the Counter-Majoritarian Dilemma in Switzerland’, (with Eva Maria Belser) presentation at the International Law Association Study Group on Principles of Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law, London, 15 November 2013

Conference paper
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘Indigenous Peoples Rights and Development-Induced Displacement’- paper presented at the Tuesday Seminar Series, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Lecture
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘International Law and Development-Induced Displacement’- paper presented at the Workshop of Young Scholars from the Global South, HEI; Geneva, November 2006

Conference paper
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises’, Panel presentation at the ICJ Conference ‘Corporate Social Responsibility, Unternehmen und Menschenrechte: Welche Verantwortungen und Pflichten?’, March 2011, Bern

Conference paper
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

‘Right to Health and Intellectual Property Laws: Obstacles and Opportunities in International Economic Law’, presentation at the Department of Law, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram, India 20 December 2013

Lecture
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‘Sardar Sarovar Injustices’, 26 Forced Migration Review 68 (2006)

Newsletter article
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“Dealing with the Counter-Majoritarian Dilemma in Direct Democratic Systems: Revisiting Constitutional Review in Switzerland”, with Prof. Eva Maria Belser, paper presented at the Conference of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, Cambridge, UK, 8-9 May 2015

Conference paper
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“Do you Belong? The changing nature of citizenship in multicultural societies: reflections on Hannah Arendt”, International Seminar on Human Rights Protection in the Age of Globalisation, Central University of Kerala, Thiruvalla, India 4-6 January 2018

Conference paper
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“Narratives of Resistance: Does Resistance enrich or weaken International Law? Three Case Studies”, Sino-Swiss Workshop on Globalisation and Domestic Law, Fribourg, November 2016

Conference paper
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Rekha Oleschak-Pillai

“State versus Adivasis: Deciphering the Definition of Development in Indian Supreme Court Judgements”, International Seminar on Rights of Marginalised Populations, Government Law College Ernakulam, India 19-21 November 2017

Conference paper
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“The Criticality of the Right to Dissent: Current challenges to the right to freedom of expression”, Human Rights Week, Central University of Kerala, India 4 December 2017

Conference paper
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