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'''Ram Prakash Anand''' (1933–2011)<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |date=Spring 2011 |title=In Memoriam: Ram Prakash Anand |journal=Trade, Law and Development |volume=III |issue=1 |pages=1–5}}</ref> was an international legal scholar and a pioneer of [[Third World approaches to international law]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Anghie |first=Antony |date=2011-01-01 |title=International Law in a Time of Change: Should International Law Lead or Follow? |url=https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/auilr/vol26/iss5/4 |journal=American University International Law Review |volume=26 |issue=5}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Gathii |first=James Thuo |date=2020 |title=Promise of International Law: A Third World View (Including a TWAIL Bibliography 1996–2019 as an Appendix) |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-asil-annual-meeting/article/abs/promise-of-international-law-a-third-world-view-including-a-twail-bibliography-19962019-as-an-appendix/BEFF0C32DB14AEF552D01B7FE70AD97F |journal=Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting |language=en |volume=114 |pages=165–187 |doi=10.1017/amp.2021.87 |s2cid=232070020 |issn=0272-5037|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== Education ==
Anand received an LL.M. in [[international law]] with distinction from [[Delhi University]] in 1957.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Anand |first=R. P. |date=1986 |title=Sovereign Equality of States in International Law |journal=Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law}}</ref> He attended [[Yale Law School]] as a Sterling Fellow, receiving an LL.M. in 1962 and a J.S.D. in 1964.<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==

Anand wrote extensively on the law of the sea, international adjudication, the birth of states, and the sovereign equality of states, authoring and editing over 20 books and nearly 100 articles in leading journals of international law.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Lecture Series - Special Panel in Honour of Professor R.P. Anand |url=https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/anandpanel.html# |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=legal.un.org}}</ref> He was invited to give a lecture on "Sovereign Equality of States in International Law" at the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law - Recueil des cours |url=https://brill.com/view/serial/RADI |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=Brill |language=en}}</ref> He was elected an Associate Member of the [[Institute of International Law|Institute de Droit International]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1987 |title=Institute of International Law: Session of Cairo 1987 |url=https://www.idi-iil.org/app/uploads/2018/06/1990_vol_63-II_Session_de_Saint-Jaques-de-Compostelle.pdf |journal=Yearbook |volume=62 |issue=Part 2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1990 |title=Institute of International Law: Session de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle |url=https://www.idi-iil.org/app/uploads/2018/06/1990_vol_63-II_Session_de_Saint-Jaques-de-Compostelle.pdf |journal=Yearbook |volume=63 |issue=II}}</ref>

He was a pioneer of [[Third World approaches to international law]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Prabhakar |date=2019-10-21 |title=Reading RP Anand in the Post-Colony: Between Resistance and Appropriation |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/35127/chapter/299279475 |language=en |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198849636.003.0014}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last1=Anghie |first1=Antony |last2=Chimni |first2=B. S. |date=1 March 2003 |title=Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflicts |url=https://academic.oup.com/chinesejil/article/2/1/77/358083 |journal=Chinese Journal of International Law |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=77–103 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.cjilaw.a000480 |via=Oxford Academic|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> later considered to be a scholar of the TWAIL I movement.<ref name=":5" /> In the words of Professor Sornarajah, "[i]t was he who...first identified international law as based on European power and saw the need to rearticulate it to reflect the interests of the newly independent peoples of Asia and Africa."<ref name=":1" /> Professors [[B. S. Chimni]] and [[Antony Anghie]], leading scholars of international law and third-world approaches to international law, have said that Anand's work, in particular his book the ''New States and International Law'', significantly influenced their own scholarship.<ref name=":4" /> Anand's work was regularly reviewed<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bowett |first=D. W. |date=April 1963 |title=Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. By R. P. Anand. [London: Asia Publishing House. 1961. xv, 292 and (appendix, bibliography and index) 50 pp. 42s. net.] |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0008197300085883/type/journal_article |journal=The Cambridge Law Journal |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=159–160 |doi=10.1017/S0008197300085883 |s2cid=145588014 |issn=0008-1973|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Kamm |first=Thomas A. |date=January 1984 |title=Origin and Development of the Law of the Sea: History of International Law Revisited. By R. P. Anand. The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1983. Pp. xvi, 249. Index. Dfl.l 15; $49.50. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/origin-and-development-of-the-law-of-the-sea-history-of-international-law-revisited-by-r-p-anand-the-hague-boston-london-martinus-nijhoff-publishers-1983-pp-xvi-249-index-dfll-15-4950/A6BA808EF40067ACBBE7E586C0AA2CCC |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=274–275 |doi=10.2307/2202378 |jstor=2202378 |issn=0002-9300|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Neher |first=Clark D. |date=May 1985 |title=ASEAN: Identity, Development, and Culture. Edited by R. P. Anand and Purificacion V. Quisumbing. Quezon City and Honolulu: University of the Philippines Law Center and East-West Center Culture Learning Institute, 1982. xxx, 411 pp. $17.50. |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |language=en |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=661–662 |doi=10.2307/2056331 |jstor=2056331 |s2cid=162858914 |issn=1752-0401|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Stone |first=Julius |date=July 1970 |title=Studies in International Adjudication. By R. P. Anand. Delhi: Vikas Publications; Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: Oceana Publications, 1969. pp. vii, 298. Index. Rs. 34. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/studies-in-international-adjudication-by-r-p-anand-delhi-vikas-publications-dobbs-ferry-n-y-oceana-publications-1969-pp-vii-298-index-rs-34/3684918F240C659579018E69577EAFA5 |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=64 |issue=3 |pages=725–726 |doi=10.2307/2199224 |jstor=2199224 |s2cid=145730522 |issn=0002-9300|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last=Gormley |first=W. Paul |date=May 1976 |title=R.P. Anand, Legal Regime of the Sea-Bed and the Developing Countries, Delhi: Thomson Press, 1975, 287 pp. Rs. 58. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/netherlands-international-law-review/article/abs/anand-rp-legal-regime-of-the-seabed-and-the-developing-countries-delhi-thomson-press-1975-287-pp-rs-58/0A623AA5C8ECD6048753EECAF1A359AB |journal=Netherlands International Law Review |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=114–120 |doi=10.1017/S0165070X00016892 |issn=1741-6191|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last=Glassner |first=Martin Ira |date=April 1979 |title=Legal Régime of the Sea-bed and the Developing Countries. By R. P. Anand [Leiden:A. W. Sijthoff, 1976. 287 pp. 23.25.] - The Law of Territorial Waters of Mid-ocean Archipelagos and Archipelagic States. By Barry Hart Dubner. [The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1976. 122 pp. Dfl. 32.50.] |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-and-comparative-law-quarterly/article/abs/legal-regime-of-the-sea-bed-and-the-developing-countries-by-anandr-p-leidena-w-sijthoff-1976-287-pp-2325-the-international-legal-regime-of-artificial-islands-by-papadakisnikos-leidena-w-sijthoff-1977-298-pp-2325-the-law-of-territorial-waters-of-mid-ocean-archipelagos-and-archipelagic-states-by-dubnerbarry-hart-the-hague-martinus-nijhoff-1976-122-pp-dfl-3250/0913953FD9F356F7F47CBFE7C7AC4A03 |journal=International & Comparative Law Quarterly |language=en |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=315–316 |doi=10.1093/iclqaj/28.2.315 |issn=1471-6895|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last=Rodière |first=René |date=1977 |title=R.P. Anand, Legal Régime of the Sea-Bed and the Developing Countries |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/ridc_0035-3337_1977_num_29_4_17080 |journal=Revue internationale de droit comparé |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=831}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite journal |last=Waart |first=P. J. I. M. de |date=December 1987 |title=R.P. Anand, Confrontation or Cooperation?: International Law and the Developing Countries, Banyan Publications, New Delhi1984, XIV + 274 pp. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/netherlands-international-law-review/article/abs/anandrp-confrontation-or-cooperation-international-law-and-the-developing-countries-banyan-publications-new-delhi1984-xiv-274-pp/28D0C9700E9FDC09A13434159352418E |journal=Netherlands International Law Review |language=en |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=396–397 |doi=10.1017/S0165070X00010391 |issn=1741-6191|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Gross |first=Leo |date=September 1971 |title=Studies in International Adjudication. By R. P. Anand. (Dehli: Vikas Publications, 1969. Pp. 298. $6.25.) |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/studies-in-international-adjudication-by-anandr-p-dehli-vikas-publications-1969-pp-298-625/D6C869F0C869818F6FFAB48D24ED6D84 |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=865–866 |doi=10.2307/1955591 |jstor=1955591 |s2cid=148077103 |issn=0003-0554|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1986–1987 |title=Book Reviews |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/cjtl25&id=763&div=&collection= |journal=Columbia Journal of Transnational Law |volume=25 |pages=755}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite journal |last=Wooldridge |first=Frank |date=October 1986 |title=International Law and the Developing Countries. By R. P. Anand. [New Delhi: Banyan Publications. 1984: xii and 274 pp.] |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-and-comparative-law-quarterly/article/abs/international-law-and-the-developing-countries-by-anandr-p-new-delhi-banyan-publications-1984-xii-and-274-pp/66C97DEE71A53F06EC279D497DB8AEB1 |journal=International & Comparative Law Quarterly |language=en |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=1003–1004 |doi=10.1093/iclqaj/35.4.1003 |issn=1471-6895|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite journal |last=Nanda |first=Ved P. |date=October 1975 |title=New States and International Law. By R. P. Anand. (Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1972. Pp. 116. Index. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/new-states-and-international-law-by-anand-r-p-delhi-vikas-publishing-house-1972-pp-116-index/EDBF3E34E44C9087315C008930B72024 |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=918 |doi=10.2307/2200655 |jstor=2200655 |issn=0002-9300|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and cited by leading scholars in the field of international law.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Henkin |first=Louis |title=International law : politics and values |date=1995 |publisher=M. Nijhoff |isbn=0-7923-2908-2 |location=Dordrecht |oclc=30473079}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Buck |first=Susan J. |title=The global commons : an introduction |date=1998 |publisher=Island Press |isbn=1-4175-3938-0 |location=Washington, D.C. |oclc=228040024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ragazzi |first=Maurizio |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/3265 |title=The Concept of International Obligations Erga Omnes |date=2000-03-16 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298700.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-829870-0 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schachter |first=Oscar |date=1967–1968 |title=Towards a Theory of International Obligation |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/vajint8&id=310&div=&collection= |journal=Virginia Journal of International Law |volume=8 |pages=300}}</ref>

In 1973, he was appointed as a consultant to the [[United Nations]] Secretary-General on the Law of the Sea.<ref name=":0" /> He was one of the founders of the [[Asian Society of International Law]]<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Onuma |first=Yasuaki |date=January 2011 |title=The Asian Society of International Law: Its Birth and Significance |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-international-law/article/asian-society-of-international-law-its-birth-and-significance/52ABE97850080B943AD8FB096E9AA39F |journal=Asian Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=71–82 |doi=10.1017/S2044251310000317 |s2cid=154591726 |issn=2044-2521}}</ref> and served as president of the [[Indian Society of International Law]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=From Hope to Despair, Sixty Years of the Indian Society of International Law |url=https://thewire.in/law/from-hope-to-despair-sixty-years-of-the-indian-society-of-international-law |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=The Wire}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

In the words of Judge [[Xue Hanqin|Xue Hanquin]] of the [[International Court of Justice]], he was "one of the most prominent international lawyers in India and Asia" who made significant contributions to the improvement and development of international law<ref name=":4" /> At the time of his death, he was a Professor Emeritus of International Law at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi.<ref name=":1" /> Following his death in 2011, the Asian Society of International Law convened an event to commemorate his life and the impact of his work.<ref name=":4" />

== Publications ==

=== Books ===
* ''New States and International Law'' (1972, 2008)<ref name=":14" />
* ''Studies in International Law and History: An Asian Perspective'' (2004)
* ''International Law and Developing Countries: Confrontation or Cooperation?'' (1987)<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":13" />
* ''Origin and Development of the Law of the Sea'' (1983)<ref name=":6" />
* ''Law of the Sea: Caracas and Beyond'' (1980)
* ''Legal Régime of the Sea-Bed and the Developing Countries'' (1975)<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" />
* ''International Courts and Contemporary Conflicts'' (1974)
* ''Asian States and the Development of a Universal International Law'' (1972)
* ''Studies in International Adjudication'' (1969)<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":12" />
* ''Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice'' (1961)

=== Articles ===

* "The Formation of International Organizations and India: A History" (2010)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Anand |first=R. P. |date=March 2010 |title=The Formation of International Organizations and India: A Historical Study |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0922156509990318/type/journal_article |journal=Leiden Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=5–21 |doi=10.1017/S0922156509990318 |s2cid=145293739 |issn=0922-1565|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "The United States and the World Court" (1964)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Anand |first=R.P. |date=July 1964 |title=The United States and the World Court |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002088176400600302 |journal=International Studies |language=en |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=254–284 |doi=10.1177/002088176400600302 |s2cid=154007995 |issn=0020-8817|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== References ==

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[[Category:International law scholars]]
[[Category:Delhi University alumni]]
[[Category:Yale Law School alumni]]

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