Luxemburg, Walloon Region, Belgium
Professor Chopra is a former Law Fellow (Professorial) of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum (now this program is with the Development Studies Program), Cambridge University, UK (February 2007 to June 2019). He was with the Lauterpacht Centre for Research in International Law and the Scott Polar Institute both 2004-2005 and Wolfson College and the Centre for International Studies 2005 -2007. In Europe, he has held teaching appointments at the University of Luxembourg, the University of Newcastle UK, Riga Graduate School of Law - Latvia, Central European University – Hungary and has also lectured at the K. U. Leuven, Belgium. In 2006 he was Piet Gilhuis Chair on the Future of Environmental Law in Tilburg University, Netherlands. He has been a Professor of Law at Calcutta University 2007 to 13; and National Law School of India Bangalore,1998-1999; and was a Lecturer in Law at the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University,1981. In North America, he has taught at the University of California - Irvine, Thomas Jefferson College of Law, San Diego, and Valparaiso University, Indiana. He also taught at the University of West Indies. Dr. Chopra worked for the Ministry of Environment, India as its first Environmental Law Officer and later worked for the US EPA in Dallas. During 1984-1986 he worked on the Union Carbide Bhopal Case for the law offices of Kelly Drye and Warren, New York. At the American Society of International Law, he was Chairman of the Antarctica Group from 1984 -1994 and Chairman of the Wildlife Law Group from 1986-1994 and Co-Chair from 1994-2004. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Legal Materials and the Journal of International Wildlife Law. Major publications: The Antarctic Legal Regime, co-editor (Nijhoff – 1988); International Environmental Law, co-author (Lupas – 1993 and 1994); Whales Their Emerging Right to Life, co-author with Anthony D'Amato (American Journal of International Law, 1991). In May 1984 he raised the issue of Ozone Hole, Climate Change and melting of the West Antarctic ice, at Canberra ANZAS Congress. He received B.Sc. (1973), M.A. History (1975), LL.B. (1976), Ph.D. In Intellectual History on J.S. Mill’s Liberal Utilitarianism (1994), from Lucknow University, India; LL.M. (1979) from Dalhousie University Canada; and J.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence) (Jan. 1989) from Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. He was admitted as a Member of the Institute of Charted Arbitrators (MIC. Arb.) UK in 2001. He was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - FRGS, UK. He is an Advocate in India since 1976.
Develop environment related modules to teach environmental policy. Also deliver talks at universities and at the UN organisations in Geneva. Main talks were delivered twice at the UN in Geneva, two lectures at the IIT Mandi, India, and a talk at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Lauterpacht Center for Research in International Law - Research; Scott Polar Institute - Research; Wolfson College - Visiting Senior Member; Masters in International Studies Program - research supervisor and lecture; Cambridge Central Asia Forum - Lectures.
Gave advanced lectures in LL.M. in Environmental Law program.
Taught LL.M. courses in International Law, International Environmental Law and International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law.