[2] In 2006 Nanda was honored with a $1 million founding gift from Denver University alumni Doug and Mary Scrivner[citation needed] to launch the Ved Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law, where he became director.
[2] He was co-editor of the International Practitioner's Notebook, an American Branch publication previously published quarterly.
His writing addressed self-determination,[7] international law with regard to interventions,[8] and environmental policies.
[2] Nanda was posthumously awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement by the American Bar Association in September 2024.
[12] Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state for President George W. Bush, was a former student of Nanda.
[13] In the U.S. Congress in 2017, Rep. Mike Coffman commented that his work has inspired a countless number of students to become a part of the conversation on Human Rights and International issues.