Dr Jae Sundaram LLM, PhD, FHEA

• Associate Professor in Trade & Maritime Law
• Module Leader for International Trade Law

• Solicitor of Supreme Court of England & Wales
• Advocate, Chennai (India)
• FHEA: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Honorary Fellow of Tobisawa Institute, Japan

My research interests span maritime law; international trade and world trade law; private international law, access to medicines and TRIPS Agreement, and international legal regulation concerning the proportionality in the use of weaponry in contemporary armed conflicts. My monograph, Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law: The Unresolved Problems of Access to Medicines, has been used as a source book to argue before the America Bar Association that the US government should discontinue the use of TRIPS+ provisions in its free trade agreements with developing countries. I am currently working on a textbook on Private International Law, scheduled for publication in 2028. I am also co-authoring a new edition of a leading textbook on International Trade Law, expected to be published in 2027.

Key funded projects

• Whitepaper entitled 'A Model Commonwealth Free Trade Agreement', (co-authored with Dr David Collins) Institute for Free Trade (2022). Fully funded by the Institute of Fair Trade (IFT) in 2022.

• Blog Post Atlantic Declaration: Does it Go the Distance? (2023)

Whitepapers

• “A Model Commonwealth Free Trade Agreement” (co-authored with Dr David Collins), Institute for Free Trade (2022)

Books

• “International Trade Law Statutes and Conventions 2025–2026” (co-authored with Prof Indira Carr), Routledge (2026)

• “Handbook of Legal Principles in Shipping Business”, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (2026)

• “Handbook of Shipping Law”, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (2025)

• “WTO Law and Policy: A Political Economy Approach”, Routledge (2022)

• “Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law: The Unresolved Problems of Access to Medicines”, Routledge (2018)

• “Marine Insurance” (Editor/Contributing Editor), Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (2017)

• “International Trade Law Statutes and Conventions 2019–2021” (co-authored with Prof Indira Carr), Routledge (2021)

• “International Trade Law Statutes and Conventions 2016–2018” (co-authored with Prof Indira Carr), Routledge (2016)

Journal Articles

• “Impasse at the WTO Dispute Settlement Body: The Slow Demise of Multilateralism?” (co-authored with Ayodele S. Owolabi), Trade, Law and Development, Vol XIV, No 2 (2022), 127–156

• “TRIPS Waiver and the Failure of Multilateralism”, Baltic Rim Economies, Vol 4 (2022)

• “Combat Drones: Hive, Swarms, and Autonomous Action?” (co-authored with Dr Francis Grimal), Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 23 (1) (2018), 105–135

• “The Incremental Militarisation of Outer Space: A Threshold Analysis” (co-authored with Dr Francis Grimal), Chinese Journal of International Law, 17 (2) (2018), 45–72

• “Cyberwarfare and Autonomous Self-Defence” (co-authored with Dr Francis Grimal), Journal of Use of Force and International Law, 4 (2) (2017), 312–343

• “Offshore Oil Pollution Damage: In Pursuit of a Uniform International Civil Liability Regime”, The Denning Law Journal, Vol 28 (2016), 66–108

• “Access to Medicines and the TRIPS Agreement: What Next for Sub-Saharan Africa?”, Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol 24, Issue 3 (2015), 242–261

• “Analysis of TRIPS Agreement and the Justification of International IP Rights Protection in the WTO's Multilateral Trading System, With Particular Reference to Pharmaceutical Patents”, Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol 24, Issue 2 (2015), 121–163

• “Brazil's Implementation of TRIPS Flexibilities: Ambitious Missions, Early Implementation, and the Plans for Reform”, Information and Communication Technology Law, Vol 23, Issue 2 (2014), 1–36

• “India's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Compliant Pharmaceutical Patent Laws: What Lessons for India and other Developing Countries?”, Information and Communication Technology Law, Vol 23, Issue 1 (2014), 1–30

Book Reviews

• Review of John Hatchard, Combating Money Laundering in Africa: Dealing with the Problems of PEPs (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2020), Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol 42, No 1 (2024), 120–123

• Review of Heather Harrison Dinniss, Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Journal of Use of Force and International Law, 4 (2) (2017), 1–11

• Review of Brenda Pamela May, The Legal Duel: The TRIPS Agreement and Drug Access Issues (Peter Lang GmbH, 2013), The Denning Law Journal, Vol 27 (2015), 345–349

Case Notes

• “Does the Judgment of the CJEU in Gazprom Bring About Clarity on the Grant of Anti-Suit Injunctions under the Brussels I Regulation?”, The Denning Law Journal, Vol 27 (2015), 303–322

• “Is the Court of Appeal Decision in the Achilleas Good Law?”, The Denning Law Journal, Vol 20 (2008), 187–195

Conference Papers and Presentations

• “Blowouts, Clean-ups and Claims: Time to Establish an International Offshore Oil Spill Liability Regulation”, UBCEES conference on “Marine Life, Oil Spills, Shipping & Piracy: Contemporary Maritime Issues in Offshore Energy Exploitation”, University of Buckingham, 28 October 2015

• “Maritime Disasters & Marine Pollution”, Keynote Speaker, Student Law Society Event, University of Buckingham, 19 April 2012

• "Blowouts, Clean-ups and Claims: Time to Establish an International Offshore Oil Spill Liability Regulation" UBCEES conference on ‘Marine Life, Oil Spills, Shipping & Piracy: Contemporary Maritime Issues in Offshore Energy Exploitation’ University of Buckingham, (2015).