Indira Boutier is a Lecturer in Law at Glasgow Caledonian University, where she teaches currently business law, international trade and WTO law, and investment law. She holds a joint PhD in public law with a specialisation in international human rights law from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London and the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Aix-Marseille University.
With both an international and multidisciplinary background, Indira decided to pursue an interdisciplinary thesis. Her research focused on a comprehensive legal approach to the invisibilisation of minority discrimination in India, the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
During the preparation of her thesis, Indira engaged in various exchanges with the following universities or research institutions: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (2021); Padua Human Rights Centre, University of Padua (2022); Centre for Human Sciences, New Delhi (2022); EURAC Research, Bolzano (2022).
Indira Boutier has authored a number of articles and book chapters, including on India's non-ratification of the 1951 Convention (2021, Revue Québécoise de droit international), access to water in Canada for First Nations during the COVID 19 period (2022, Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights), the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits (2023, What's New in Human Rights Doctoral Research: A Collection of Critical Literature Reviews), spoliation processes during the Second World War (2023, L’Observateur des Nations Unies), local judicial practices and international human rights law (2024, Enquête), and the challenges and responses of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the concept of vulnerability (2024, Peace Human Rights Governance).