Biography
Dr. Sujith Xavier (Barrister and Solicitor, Law Society of Ontario) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. His research focuses on Canadian public law and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). Sujith is one of the co-editors of Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives (Routledge Press, 2021) and Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual (London: Routledge, THIRDWORLDS Series, 2017). He is a founding member of the Editorial Collective of Third World Approaches to International Law Review.
Sujith has significant experience working with local grassroots non-governmental organizations in Sri Lanka. In 2009, he was a legal intern with Al-Haq in Ramallah, Palestine. While living in The Hague in 2010, Sujith interned with Judge Agius in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is active in the legal profession as a non-practicing member of the Law Society of Ontario, and he has contributed to various cases before Canadian Courts (including the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada) and Canadian administrative decision makers.
In March of 2018, Sujith was the recipient of the University of Windsor Outstanding Faculty Research Award (Emerging Scholars/Researcher). In 2015-2016 & 2022-2023, he was the recipient of the University of Windsor Faculty of Law Students' Law Society Teaching Award for teaching excellence. At Windsor Law, his teaches Administrative Law, Constitutionalism of the Global South, Legal Theory (LL.M.), Public International Law and Race and the Law.