Ayushi Vashisht

Ayushi Vashisht is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her research looks at the evolving relationship between International Investment Law, International Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law through the lens of investment treaty arbitration. Her research is funded by the Dean’s scholarship, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She is a Graduate Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. 

Ayushi currently serves as the Graduate Mooting Assistant at the Faculty of Law. She also serves as the DPhil Facilitator for the Vice Chancellor’s Colloquium on Climate Change 2024. Ayushi holds a Bachelor of Laws from Army Institute of Law, Mohali, and a dual degree in law and economics from University of Hamburg and Erasmus University, Rotterdam under the Erasmus Mundus Association funded by the European Union specialising in Public International Law. 

Prior to taking up doctoral studies at Oxford, she worked as an Assistant Professor at O.P Jindal Global University and also as a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore where she taught courses on Legal methods, Administrative law, Gender and Society and Conflict of Laws. She has been a Teaching Assistant to Professor James Nedumpara and Justice Swatanter Kumar. Ayushi is qualified to practise law in India and has practised as a legal counsel for India’s largest private sector bank, representing the bank at the Debt Recovery Tribunals and other courts.