Deval Desai is Reader in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Law, where he is also co-PI of the project Reversing the Gaze. He works on law and development, administrative law and regulation, theories of the state, and the role of knowledge and expertise in institutional reform processes. He currently focuses on the process and politics of building theory from the Global South, on which he is the author of Expert Ignorance (CUP 2023) and The Anti-Fiscal State (CUP 2026), co-editor of the volume Reversing the Gaze (Bristol UP), and editor-in-chief of the book series Elements in Legal Theory and the Global South (CUP).
