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Dr Kanad Bagchi has won the UvA Law Faculty Prize for the Best Publication 2024 for Young Researchers. The jury selected his article ‘Depoliticizing money: how the International Monetary Fund transformed central banking’ and said it is ‘a ground-breaking and thought-provoking analysis at the intersection between law & politics’.
If, as this paper shows, the law has played a crucial role in depoliticizing money, the law can also be a tool in reorienting central banking towards progressive ends such as tackling poverty or inequality. This would require a careful re-evaluation of the legal institutions of global money, beginning with the IMF itself. Kanad Bagchi Read the full article in the Journal of International Economic Law

About Dr Kanad Bagchi

For the past two years, Kanad has been 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).

In September 2025, Kanad will be joining SEVEN, the UvA's Climate Institute, as a postdoctoral researcher. As part of the project on “Fairness in Climate Solutions,” his research will focus on the intersection of sustainable finance and environmental justice, with particular attention to how local and global initiatives, legal institutions, and social movements interact in responding to and shaping a fairer climate governance regime, one that is mindful of historical injustices, colonial legacies, and the evolving role of private capital.

K. (Kanad) Bagchi

Faculty of Law

Public International Law