Dr. Kanad Bagchi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), a member of Decolonial Futures Research Group and the Sustainable Global Economic Law project (SGEL).

Kanad’s research and teaching lies in the intersection of public international law, international economic and monetary law, critical legal theory, including decoloniality and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). At UvA, he is developing a project on ‘International Law, Money and Empire’ which investigates the historical role of money as an important instrument of Empire and colonialism and how contemporary regimes of international monetary law similarly structure relationships of subordination and dependency between the ‘core’ and the ‘periphery’.

Prior to UvA, Kanad was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg where he also defended his doctoral dissertation on the role of international law in monetary relations. His doctoral research was also supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship. He has taught and lectured at several institutions in the areas of public international law, law and politics of central banking, critical approaches to international law, law and decoloniality. Kanad’s research has appeared in several international leading peer review journals such as the Oxford Journal of Financial Regulation, Journal of International Economic Law, German Yearbook of International Law and the World Comparative Law Journal among others. His research has won multiple awards including the European Central Bank Research Prize in 2022.