Dr Kalika Mehta

Monograph

• Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis (Routledge 2024)
  • Review by Lavinia Parsi in Global Responsibility to Protect (2025)
  • Review by Asad Kiyani in Journal of International Criminal Justice (2025)

Edited Collection / Symposium

• International Criminal Law – A Counterhegemonic Project? (Springer 2022) – with Florian Jeßberger and Leonie Steinl
• Reflexive Globalisation and the Law (Verfassungsblog 2026) – with Florian Jeßberger and Phillip Dann

Journal Articles

• ‘Challenging the Myth of Neutrality: Strategic Litigation and Professionalism in International Criminal Justice’, Special Issue on Professionals and Professionalism(s) in International Criminal Justice, Journal of International Criminal Justice (forthcoming/2025)
• ‘Permanent Suspicion: Reframing Criminal Law Through Postcolonial Thought’ Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft – German Journal for the Entire Field of Criminal Law 137(3), 741-760
• ‘Prosecutions Across Borders: A TWAIL Review of Universal Jurisdiction Practice in Germany’, Journal of International Criminal Justice  (2024) – with Sarah Imani and Leokadia Melchior
• ‘Charting Extraterritoriality: Jurisdiction, Corporate Conduct and Environmental Harm’, Special Issue on TWAIL and Jurisdiction, National Law School of India Review 35(2) (2024), 57-68.
• ‘Terms and Conditions of Litigating International (Criminal) Law for Corporate Accountability’, TWAIL Review (September 2024)
• ‘Hanan v. Germany (Eur. Ct. H.R.)’, International Legal Materials (2022), 61(1), pp. 61 – 123
• ‘Between Sexual Violence and Autonomy: Rethinking engagement of Indian Women’s Movement with Criminal Law’,  German Law Journal (2021), 22(5), pp. 860-877 – with Avantika Tiwari

Book Chapters

• ‘Starvation on Trial:  The Bengal Famine through the Lens of Colonial History and International Criminal Law’ in Lys Kulmadayil, Tor Krever, and Praggya Thakur (eds), Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times (Hart, forthcoming/2026) – with Riley Linebaugh.
• ‘A New Seat at a New Table: Re-imagining International Community in ICL’ in Dire Tladi and Jessie Phyffer (eds), International Community for International Law (Pretoria University Law Press, forthcoming/2025)
• ‘Sanctions and Measures – Article 45’ in Micaela Frulli and Sara De Vido (eds), Commentary to the Istanbul Convention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
• ‘Other Examples of Domestic Implementation of the ICC Statute’ in Chantal Meloni, Florian Jeßberger, Maria Crippa (eds), Domesticating International Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2023)
• ‘Hegemony and International Criminal Justice: An Introduction’ in Florian Jeßberger, Leonie Steinl and Kalika Mehta (eds), International Criminal Law – A Counterhegemonic Project? (Springer, 2022)  – with Florian Jeßberger and Leonie Steinl
• ‘Extraterritorial Prosecutions and Transitional Justice: Seeking Criminal Justice in and outside Sri Lanka’ in Isabelle Lassee (ed) Sri Lanka’s Time to Try: Prosecuting Conflict-Related Abuses (South Asian Centre for Legal Studies, Sri Lanka, 2019) – with Raquel Saavedra and Andreas Schueller

Online / Blogs / Op-ed

• Unwritten Books: An Imaginarium of International Criminal Justice (JICJ, April 2026)
• International Criminal Law of the West? Why the Eurocentric Critique May Have Reached Its Limits (Verfassungsblog, February 2026)
• Listening in the Times of Crisis: Notes from the People’s Tribunal on Afghanistan (EJIL Talk!, November 2025)
• Starvation is a War Crime. Why is it so hard to prosecute? (Al-Jazeera Opinion, October 2025) – with Riley Linebaugh
• The Inadvertent Protagonist: Possible Implications of the ICJ Advisory Opinion for the Prosecution of International Crimes in Palestine (Verfassungsblog, September 2024) – with Florian Jeßberger.
• All Eyes on Sudan (too): Responding to Recent Crimes in Sudan (Verfassungsblog, July 2024) – with Atel Ongee Paito.
• In the Court’s Shadow: Writing Selectivity in the Procedures of ICC (Völkerrechtsblog, January 2024).
• Tailoring the Jurisdiction of the ECHR: The ECtHR’s Grand Chamber Decision in Hanan v. Germany (Verfassungsblog, February 2021)