Name: Fifth annual LDRN conference | Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa | September 2021
Start: 2021-09-21T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-23T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Nelson Mandela University

Fayth Ruffin

Biography:

Professor Ruffin holds a Juris Doctor Degree and PhD in Global Affairs. The certified mediator and business district manager joined the Garnet Network of Excellence PhD School at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institute for European Studies in Belgium during doctoral studies. Her career spans law, business, government, the non-profit sector and academia. The former attorney was a consultant to or manager of various public, commercial, non-profit organisations in the USA before joining the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Professor Ruffin works with the DST-NRF Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems and led development of an academic qualification in African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. She uses findings from intertwining multi-inter-trans-disciplinary research with community engagement to transform higher education curriculum. Results from research led by Professor Ruffin have been presented at OECD, UN and World Justice Forum events. Professional affiliations include the African Governance Seminar Series network of the African Peer Review Mechanism, African Union. The recipient of UKZN and South African National Teaching

Excellence Awards and indigenous knowledge systems practitioner is a sought-after public speaker. Professor Ruffin has published widely, supervises postgraduate students and regularly mentors colleagues and students; upholding her beliefs in the triumph of universal holism.

Research interests:

My research interests are multi-inter-trans-disciplinary. My work addresses research problems that cut across disciplines and sectors, transcending dichotomies and barriers to generate findings, recommendations and domestic and international policy frameworks which advance theories and pragmatic practices that are global justice oriented. Having practiced law for about 20 years in the United States and currently being a social science theorist and empirical research activist in South Africa, my research interests revolve around law and development globally and locally. This means that, in a variety of ways my work intersects the following research areas: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Public Policy, Politics, Administration and Governance; African Politics; Global and Regional Politics and Governance; Global/Local Disaster Risk Management and Risk Reduction; Local/Regional Economic Development; Global and African Regional Political Economy; International Relations; Global Rural Management and Development; Global/Local Network Governance; International and Comparative Politics; International and Comparative Law; Global Governance and Law; Socio-legal Studies; International Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution; Public and Business Administration and Management (sub-national, national, international, regional and comparative), Entrepreneurship and Higher Education.

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Saide Jamal

Biography:

Saide Jamal is a Sylff Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. He received his PhD in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at University of Coimbra (2018). His recent research explores the human rights to food and nutrition (food waste); the role of participatory budgeting in promoting local development in Africa, including the socioeconomic impact of xenophobia in South Africa.

Research interests:

Policy Research and Policy Analysis; Democratic Governance (Participatory Budgeting); Citizen’ Participation in Decision-making; Human Rights and International Migration; Armed Conflicts (Insurgency and Civil War).

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Michael Addaney

Biography:

Michael Addaney is a Scholar at the Research Institute of Environmental Law, School of Law, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; and senior research assistant at the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana. He is also a member of the PhD Academy of the Cross-Cultural Human Rights Centre at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Centre operates as a think tank, which draws the attention, mainly of Northern audiences, to Southern ideas, concepts and accomplishments in the area of human rights. Michael is currently a visiting doctoral researcher at the Research Unit on Law, Justice and Sustainability of the Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Michael’s research interests broadly focus on the role of international human rights law in framing and implementing responses to sustainability challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. He also researches on Africa’s sustainable development and China’s rising geopolitical interests on the continent.

Research interests:

My research interests broadly focus on the role of international human rights law in framing and implementing responses to sustainability challenges in Africa. My doctoral thesis is on ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights Law in the African Union: Towards Human Rights-Based Approach to Adaptation’. The main question informing my thesis is how human rights principles, norms and mechanisms can be useful in terms of regional and national responses to climate change adaptation in the African Union and its member states. Relying on fundamental human rights principles such as accountability and access to remedy or justice, it argues that a climate justice-based conception of adaptation is a game-changer if African countries are to become adaptable, resilient and to transition successfully to climate-proof society. The thesis therefore frames adaptation as means of bridging environmental, climate and social justice for vulnerable states and marginalized populations in Africa. The Law and Development Network will therefore be a great opportunity for the cross fertilization of lessons and perspectives from other scholars from across the world researching on public international law in general and climate change and sustainable development law in particular.

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Diana M.J. Camps

Biography:

Dr Diana Camps holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics, University of Oslo, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (2019); MA-TESL, University of Texas at San Antonio (2012); BA in International Studies, Texas A&M University (1996)

Current research addresses a significant gap in the legal structures of the UK to properly facilitate access to justice for people who experience violations of social rights. Focus is on the right to an adequate standard of living, including the right to adequate housing, the right to social security and the right to freedom from poverty.

Previous work directed attention to policies and actions that frame contemporary language protection movements within a European framework. Language revival movements, in their efforts to secure linguistic and cultural rights for minoritised groups, are deeply embedded within broader initiatives for human rights under UN and EU legislation. Research also entailed analysis of US refugee policy, illustrating that the ways in which refugees and the role of language in integration were portrayed in US policies had a direct and constraining impact on the provision of English language education for refugee adults, and consequently their social mobility. She also worked for a large NGO in Chicago in refugee resettlement.

Research interests:

My research maintains a central focus on social justice, how policy discourses are transformed through social action and their role in shaping contemporary programs, practices and law.

My work combines legal analysis, discourse analysis and theoretical / empirical approaches from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Current research focuses on the discursive environment in which economic,

social and cultural (ESC) rights are embedded, and how international human rights law can be incorporated domestically to advance ESC rights.

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Osahon Livewell Omoregie

Biography:

Osahon Livewell Omoregie has been a Lecturer in Law at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma since October 2007, and rose through the ranks to become a Senior Lecturer in Law in October 2017 till date. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in May 2007 as the recipient of the prestigious Ernest Shonekan’s Award for Best Student in Legal Drafting and Conveyancing Law; after obtaining an LL.B Degree of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma as the Best Graduating Student of the Faculty of Law in 2005. He holds an LL.M

Degree of the University of Benin, Benin City and a P.G.D.E of the National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna which he obtained in 2011 and 2012 respectively. He is well published and has attended and presented papers at several national and international conferences. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

Research interests:

Osahon Livewell Omoregie research interests cut across several diversified areas of law including: law and development, sustainable development, environmental law and regulation, energy law, climate change, natural resources, human rights law, corporate law issues in developing countries and the globe at large.

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Pedro Schilling de Carvalho

Biography:

PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge Trust International Scholarship). Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Universidade de São Paulo (First Class Honours), with a period as an exchange student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). LL.M. from University of Cambridge (Chevening Scholarship – First Class Honours). Former Chief of Staff at the 1st Commercial Law Chamber from the São Paulo State Supreme Court, under Justice Cesar Ciampolini Neto. Former Associate Lawyer at L.O. Baptista, a GAR-100 firm, working in the arbitration team. Conducted an undergraduate research under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Konder Comparato, with a grant from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

Research interests:

My research is concentrated in international financial regulation, global governance, and law and political economy, as I am trying to understand how certain domestic-international linkages work and how regulation can be designed to overcome some of the issues that have either arisen or intensified in the last few years. I am particularly interested in understanding how to improve coordination and cooperation between different jurisdictions in an environment that is increasingly marked by multipolarity and fragmentation (as exemplified by Trump’s aversion to multilateralism and the effects that Brexit will have, as the UK and the EU slowly diverge in terms of preferences). As I am a researcher that comes from an emerging economy, I am also interested in understanding how these developments affect the structures that mediate the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.

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María Cristina Alé

Biography:

PhD Candidate at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. Lawyer from the University of Mendoza, Argentina and LL.M in international human rights and Humanitarian Law at Europa-Viadrina Universität-Frankfurt(O), Germany. Practicing as a legal advisor and consultant in environmental and human rights projects and member of the Editorial Board of the Law Journal “República y Derecho” (Republic and Law) from the University of Cuyo, Argentina.

The PhD research focuses on strategic litigation as a means for the protection of human rights, especially on environmental issues from the global south.

Research interests:

Strategic litigation – Business and human rights – State responsibilities – Environmental conflicts and law – Extractives industries – The role of law as a means to achieve social change – International mechanisms of human rights protection – Economic, social and cultural rights – Protection of human rights defenders.

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Nkechi Linda Ekeator

Biography:

Nkechi Linda Ekeator is a Lawyer and international development practitioner who currently works as a Consultant with the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice of the World Bank. She had previously worked as Manager of Legal Affairs, National Social Investment Programme, Office of the Vice President of Nigeria; and as Associate Lawyer at Kanu Agabi SAN and Associates. She holds a Master of Laws from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. For Mrs. Ekeator, giving back is a duty which every human owes the society and the succeeding generation. For this reason, she founded the Law Career Development Initiative through which she impacts the lives and careers of younger generation of lawyers by providing them with the professional support needed to successfully navigate the legal profession. This is done through career seminars which hold periodically at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja. She has recently begun to expand the reach of the career development programmes to also cater for university undergraduates as her small contribution to bridging the wide human capital development gap which currently exists in Nigeria. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the International Federation of Women Lawyers as well as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Administration.

Research interests:

Research interests include without limitation: international investment law and sustainable development in relation to how bilateral and multilateral investment treaties could be harnessed to enhance and sustain development efforts, especially in the context of the Global South; job and migration policy and practice and how those can enhance socio-economic growth and development in both labour-sending and -receiving countries; international commercial arbitration and investment treaty implementation as instruments of national and global development; and inclusive development – encompassing gender, disability, and ageing.

Elena Pesina

Biography:

Elena is an “intercontinental lawyer” with experience of legal education and legal systems in Russia, Israel and New Zealand. She received her first law degree from the Law Faculty of the National Research University the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russa) in 2008, where she majored in Financial Law. From 2009 till 2014 she has been teaching Financial Law, Banking Law and Tax law at the Russian Cooperative University (Russia). In 2016 Elena has completed her International LL.M. Degree with Thesis at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (Israel). She specialized in Global Governance and Human Rights.

Research interests:

Elena’s doctoral thesis aims to improve behavior of donor states when they deliver Official Development Assistance. The thesis looks at aid delivery as development cooperation, which is customary referred to as “partnership”, and argues that donor states should have international legal (other-regarding) obligations towards the beneficiaries of aid in order for this aid to contribute to sustainable development goals.

Her broader research interests include Public International Law and Human Rights, Development Finance Law and Law of Development Cooperation. Elena is committed to create a positive impact on the World through legal research and teaching in these areas.

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Owen M.M. KaiCombey

Biography:

Owen is a Sierra Leonean and a Hardiman Ph.D Scholar in Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is currently researching on the topic “Constitutionalism and the Question of the ‘Colonial Deficit’ in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Study of Selected African States’. He holds an LLB Hons degree from the University of Liverpool, UK (2019); an MA in International Relations from the International University of Japan (2012); an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Sierra Leone (2006), and a BA in English Language & Political Science from the same university (2001). Owen’s research interests include Constitutional Law, Public International Law, Regional Integration Law, Comparative Law and Politics, Jurisprudence, Public Policy Analysis, Social Justice and Nation-Building, Constitutional History and Governance in Post-Colonial Africa, International Political Economy, Gender, Human Rights and Development.

Research interests:

Owen’s research interests include Constitutional Law, Public International Law, Regional Integration Law, Comparative Law and Politics, Jurisprudence, Public Policy Analysis, Social Justice and Nation-Building, Constitutional History and Governance in Post-Colonial Africa, International Political Economy, Gender, Human Rights and Development.

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Badr Mohammed Bashir

Biography:

Badr Mohammed Bashir, simply referred to as Badr was born on the 12th of December 1970. He was born into a family of 21 children all educated to degree level. He attended Victory College Ikare and Crowther Memorial College, Lokoja for his secondary education. Badr studied Law at University of Ilorin, Ilorin Nigeria (LLB, 2003 and LLM 2011). He proceeded to Nigerian Law School for his compulsory post graduation professional training in 2006.He is a PhD student at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. Soon after the Call to Bar,Badr joined the famous Chambers of late legal Icon, Chief Gani Fawenhim SAN where he cut his litigation teeth. Badr later established his private Legal Practice in 2010 (BADR M. B. & CO) where he was the Principal Partner. Continuing his penchant for learning and teaching law, Badr joined the first Police Academy in Western Africa, The Nigeria Police Academy where he teaches Forensic law and Criminal .Litigation. He has served and still serving in many Committees in the Academy and has held many administrative positions including Director of Legal Clinic. He is currently Academy Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) Desk Officer.

Research interests:

In the application of plea bargaining in many jurisdictions has been greeting with a lot of criticisms, Nigeria is not an exemption. Criminal Justice system in most part of the Common Law jurisdictions is losing its grip on justice. Hence, the need for a system that can serve the yearnings and agitations of people. The corrupt regimes in most African states and Nigeria has led to the adoption of plea bargaining in the administration of Criminal justice in Nigeria. Yet, the test appears to have failed the public as stakeholders believe plea bargaining has only made mockery of the system. The Thesis titled APPLICATION OF PLEA BARGAINING IN NIGERIA: LESSONS FROM CANADA is being undertaken at the Bayero University Kano, Nigeria as Doctoral dissertation. It is the aim of the study to propose a workable means of applying plea bargain concept to decongest the courts, prisons, and enable victims of crime appropriately compensated.

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Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.

Biography: 

Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr. (born 1986) is an International Relations scholar focusing on global human rights norms, global governance, and foreign aid in the context of international development. He is a tenured academic at the International Studies and History section of the Institute of History within the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He holds a joint PhD in Political Science and North American Studies (2015) from the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science of the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the co-editor of American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers (Routledge, 2017) and the author of peer-reviewed articles in International Studies Perspectives, Third World Quarterly, Geoforum, International Political Science Review, and Human Rights Review, among many others.

Research interests:

His long-term research agenda aims to investigate how trans/international factors and domestic factors interact as they produce transformative political outcomes at the national or local level, especially in the context of the Global South. His research agenda addresses various themes such as international human rights norms, global governance, foreign aid, democratization, and theories of International Relations

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Gift Mwonzora

Biography:

Gift Mwonzora is scholar-cum-activist who is driven by the fight for a realization of a just, free and egalitarian society. I come from a trade union background which is matched with my experience in academic institutions as a researcher. Previously, I was involved in the Constitution-making process in Zimbabwe during the era of the Inclusive Government [I.G] as a Rapporteur in the public outreach programme.

Research interests:

Social Justice, human rights, democracy, transitional justice, democratization, social movements, elections and electoral behaviour, social media and protest participation

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Tapas Kumar Sarangi

Biography:

Professionally an economist with specialization in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, at present working as an Assistant Director at National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (NILERD), Delhi under NITI Aayog, Government of India. Before joining NILERD, I worked as TTI Fellow (Post Doctoral) at Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), University of Delhi, India and also as a Senior Researcher with the Division for Sustainable Development Studies (DSDS) at Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. Earlier I have worked as Visiting Fellow at Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources (RULNR), CESS. I have also worked with the Xavier Institute of Management (XIM) at Bhubaneswar, NABARD- Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) at Lucknow. I hold a Master, MPhil and PhD degree in Economics from Sambalpur University, Odisha. I was an recipient of the centrally administered ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship to pursue my PhD during 2007-10 and also the recipient of the IEG-Think Tank Initiative Post Doctoral Fellowship from Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) at University of Delhi supported by IDRC Canada during 2014-15. I have published research articles in professional journal like Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Social and Economic Development, International Journal of Biodiversity Watch and Financing Agriculture. I have also published a number of papers in different Edited Volumes, Monograph and Working Papers.

Research interests:

My research interest includes Natural Resource Governance, Environmental Law, Livelihood Analysis and issues relating to tribal and marginalised communities.

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Rafael Sakr

Biography:

Rafael Sakr is a lawyer specializing in financial law and regulation, international economic law, and dispute resolution. He is an associate fellow of the UK High Education Academy since 2016. He has a diverse, yet specialized, educational background, with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an LLM from the Columbia University Law School, and an MPhil in Law and also an LLB from the University of Sao Paulo (USP). He was also a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School in 2012-2013.

Currently, he is a teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham Law School, where he lectures on courses in banking and financial law, international law, commercial law, and tort law. Prior to Birmingham, he was a class teacher at the LSE where he taught international law, English legal system, and legal research and writing skills. In 2018, he was also a class teacher on the course in securities regulation at Queen Mary, University of London.

At LSE, he co-founded, with Andrew Lang and Ken Shadlen, and coordinated the Law and Development Project (2016-2018), which served as a framework for organizing events and projects that brought together academics, experts, lawyers, students and the general public.

Moreover, Rafael Sakr has practiced law since 2007. He was a senior associate at Motta, Fernandes Rocha Advogados, a Brazilian law firm specializing in financial and business law, and before that, a senior in-house counsel at the Brazilian Stock and Futures Exchange, where rendered advice in financial law and regulation.

Research interests:

Rafael Sakr’s academic agenda is situated in the intersection of international law and business law. His primary research interests include international and comparative law and governance, international economic law and development, financial and commercial law and policy, and dispute resolution and arbitration. Rafael’s current focus is on the role of law and lawyers in global governance, trade regionalism and economic development.

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Ruth Knoblich

Biography:

Ruth is a research fellow at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, a PhD candidate, and associated researcher at the Intellectual Property Unit, Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she spent a research period of 16 months in 2017/2018 as a scholar financed by the European Commission.

She has a multidisciplinary background, studied in Bonn, Berlin and Madrid, and holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science as well as two degrees in Medicine. She teaches and supervises students regularly on development topics at the IEE in Bochum, at the South African-German Centre for Development Research at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology (IPWS) in Bonn. Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the IPWS as well as at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn.

Research interests:

Ruth’s research is at the interface of policies, laws and regulations of science, technology and innovation and sustainable development. This includes regulations and policies of systems of innovation in the global South, emerging technologies and law, intellectual property regulation and intellectual property policy processes – primarily related to biodiversity, health and climate policies – in emerging economies, as well as science, technology and innovation in global politics and multi-level governance.

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Geoffrey Lugano

Biography:

I am a lecturer of Political Studies at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. I received my PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, in June 2018. Between August 2015 and June 2016, I was awarded a Research Fellowship by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in Germany, as part of an interdisciplinary team that was undertaking a ground-breaking study on acceptance of international criminal justice. In June 2016, Geoffrey was accepted into the high-level PhD summer school on international courts at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and PluriCourts at Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (Norway).

Research interests:

My research interests are in transitional justice, the utility and relevance of international law in peacebuidling in conflict and post-conflict societies, particularly African states.

Conor Talbot

Biography:

Conor Talbot is currently a Legal Counsel in the European Investment Bank’s legal service. He is a solicitor qualified in Ireland and England and Wales, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has previously worked in private practice with a large Dublin firm, and has held research positions at the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin and the Scuola Superiore SantAnna at the University of Pisa, Italy. He has published extensively in various peer-reviewed law journals, and he currently specialises in inter-institutional negotiations, decentralised financial instruments and State aid law.

Research interests:

Conor’s ongoing research interests are in development finance, climate adaptation, sustainability and social innovation.

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Andreia Costa Vieira

Biography:

Andreia Costa Vieira is Associate Professor of International Economic Law and the Environment, at the Catholic University of Santos, São Paulo. Brazil, Founder and Director of the ACV International Law Institute (consultancy), Researcher at the CCGI-FGV. She holds a PhD in International Law (USP, Brazil), an LLM in International Trade Law (University of Nottingham, UK) and was Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

Research interests:

International Economic Law and the Environment

International Law and Sustainable Development

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Babalola Abegunde

Biography:

Dr. Babalola Abegunde is a seasoned Lawyer, Lecturer and unrepentant Researcher. He attended the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws degrees in 1996 and 2001 respectively. He was called to the Nigerian Bar Association in 1999(twenty years ago). He joined the services of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti in 2002, where he has spent eighteen years running, providing both administrative and academic leadership in various capacities, e.g as Sub-Dean Faculty of Law, Head, Department of Public Law, Coordinator Postgraduate Programmes, Member of the University Senate. His research potential is extraordinary with over sixty researched publications in scholarly journals (both offshore and onshore) and textbook. He belongs to many academic and professional bodies at national and international levels.

Research interests:

His research interest covers Jurisprudence and International Law, Law of International Institutions, International Human Rights Law and Law of Evidence. He has supervised several graduate Postgraduate students in these areas.

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Sarah Morganna Matos Marinho

Biography:

Sarah Marinho is currently a PhD candidate in the Law School of the University of São Paulo and an LLM/SJD candidate in the University of Wisconsin Law School. She holds a bachelor degree at the Law School of the Federal University of Ceará and a M.A in Law and Development at the São Paulo Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation. Her academic work focus on empirical research in the fields of Law and Development, Corporate Law and International Economic Law.

Research interests:

Socio-Legal Research, Law and Development, Corporate Law, and International Economic Law.

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Nkosana Maphosa

Biography:

Nkosana Maphosa is an astute African, generational thinker, lawyer, rule of law adviser, teacher, and researcher . He holds an LL.M. (Rule of Law for Development) from Loyola University Chicago & LL.B. from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Research interests:

1. Competition Law and Policy

2. Contracts

3. Company Law

3. Labour Protection (including the Law-Technology Cycle)

4. Law, Technology & InnovationC

4. Law and economic development (Institutional Law, Anti-Corruption & Anti-Money-Laundering Law, Corporate Governance, Rule of Law for Economic Development)

5. Legal profession: Judging

6. Comparative Legal Education & Lawyering

7. Jurisprudence: Legal Theory

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Doris Dakda Aaron

Biography:

I obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Lagos in 2015, I am currently doing a Phd in law at the University of Abuja, Nigeria.

My current job description includes:

1. Providing and operating a data bank on treaties and constitutions

2. Provide briefs on emerging legal and constitutional issues.

3. Participate in Bill/Policy Analysis especially on constitutional matters.

4. Analyse national and foreign policies.

5. Assist legislators on policy prospects and implications.

6. Initiate individual research and policy analysis projects under supervisions.

7. Assist in organizing training programmes in related matters.

Research interests:

Working in the institute in the last two years triggered my interest in the area of law making and law reforms. My concern on the need to take the law reform process very serious in Nigeria, propelled me to publish an article on law reform in Nigeria. My interest in that area further pushed me to carry out a research on how this important task of law reform are carried out in other Jurisdictions like the United Kingdom. It is glaring that for a law reform process to be effective, there must exist a strong synergy between the legislature and the law reform agency. From a preliminary research done so far, it is clear to see that law reform agencies in most jurisdictions of the world including Nigeria are established by the executive arm of government, while the law making process is an exclusive reserve of the legislature. It therefore means that, one cannot function effectively without the support of the other. How can the two arms of government charged with similar responsibilities co-exist and function effectively without clashes and undue interference and usurpation of powers? I intend to probe into what makes successful law reform agencies.

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Annamaria La Chimia

Biography:

Annamaria La Chimia is Professor of Law and Development at the School of Law University of Nottingham, where she is also the Co-director of the Equality Program, the equality officer and the Convenor for the LLM specialism in International Law and development.

She has acted as an adviser for the UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), for the German Agency GIZ, for the European Commission (DG Trade and DG Development), and she has worked as expert consultant for the NGO ActionAid and the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has also participated in a SIGMA project on the review of the Romanian domestic public procurement legislation.

Research interests:

Annamaria’s main research interests lie within the area of International Development, Public Procurement Law, International Trade Law and European Law. She has received internal and external funding as both PI and Co-I, including in 2017 a major AHRC grant (as Co-Investigator)-the Rising from the Depths Network project, worth over 2-million £.

She is the author of Tied Aid within the Framework of EU and WTO Law: the Imperative for Change (Hart 2013) the leading monograph on tied aid. Her most recent publication is the edited collection Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness: a Roadmap under Construction (with Peter Trepte) published by Hart in 2019. More recently she has worked with Dr Daria Davitti on aid and migration and has started a new research initiative with Dr Jon Henderson on aid and cultural heritage.

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Mizanur Rahaman

Biography:

I have received my doctorate in law from the Kent Law School, University of Kent, in 2017. My doctoral thesis at Kent examined how the bioeconomy operates as a ‘desiring-machine’; and how law, specifically intellectual property and biodiversity laws, mediates such operation in a global/postcolonial context. I also hold bachelor and masters degrees in law from the universities of Calcutta, Pune and Warwick. In the past, I was Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) and Associate Lecturer at Kent Law School, and Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia. I am a recipient of several scholarships, awards and grants, which include Kent Law School Doctoral Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship (2008-2011), Modern Law Review Doctoral Scholarship (2010), Transnational Law Institute Summer School Fellowship at King’s College London (2015), and workshop/conference presentation grants by SLSA, UK (2010), Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2017), American University in Cairo/University of Cape Town (2019), and Humboldt University (2019). I was managing editor of the Journal of Information, Law and Technology (now European Journal of Law & Technology), an e-journal published by the School of Law, University of Warwick.

Research interests:

My research interests revolve around intellectual property law; spatiality of law; transnational legal theory; law, governance and development; law and the bioeconomy, human rights and legal pluralism; post-conflict justice; law and anthropology; and law and social theory.

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Misha Plagis

Biography:

I hold a PhD from Freie Universiteit Berlin (2018), as well as an LL.M. (2012) and LL.B. (2011) from Maastricht University. My doctorate adopted a law and development approach to the issue of access to courts in rural India and South Africa, and addressed the different policy choices made by each country. Since then I have moved (back) to the international sphere, and focus on African (Union) institutions in my current work as a post-doctoral researcher at the Asser Institute.

Research interests:

I am interested in the intersections between human rights, climate change, and development in the context of Africa. In particular, the work of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as well as the emergent African Continental Free Trade Agreement.

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Sapna Reheem Shaila

Biography:

Sapna is a Ph.D. researcher in Law, at King’s College (University of London). She completed her LLM (Law, Development and Governance) from SOAS, University of London and BA/LLB. Hons from NALSAR University of Law (India). In the past, she worked as a legal officer at Centre for Good Governance, coordinating projects with World Bank and State Governments in India. Currently, she is a Teaching Fellow at King’s College and University College London.

Sapna’s Ph.D. research focuses on studying the rule of law promotion in transitional states by international donors (bilateral, as well as multilateral) through a socio-legal lens. It enquires about how the ‘rule of law’ as a global prescription is transferred to local spaces. Her research aims to provide a sociological explanation of the processes and interactions between the international and local stakeholders engaged in the transferal of the rule of law norms, and adopting it to local contexts.

Research interests:

Sapna’s research interests are in the areas of comparative sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and law and development. She is particularly interested in studying how legal realities/legal spaces in different contexts are transformed into comparable units especially through indicators (like the Rule of Law Index, Corruption Perception Index, etc.) to make sense of differences. She is also interested in methodological discussions on studying and gathering data from different legal cultures.

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Agung Wardana

Biography:

I am an assistant professor at Departement of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. I hold a PhD from Asia Research Center, Murdoch University, Australia, and LLM in Environmental Law from the University of Nottingham, the UK. My recent book is Contemporary Bali: Contested Space and Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Research interests:

My research interests include: environmental law and governance, socio-legal studies, anthropology of law.

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Therese Boje Mortensen

Biography:

My educational background includes a BA in South Asian Studies from Copenhagen University (2016) and a European MA in Human Rights and Democratisation (2017). In addition, I have worked with project management, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy, research and analysis from a range of local and international child rights and peacebuilding NGOs.

Research interests:

I am interested in the intersections between international law, local practices and local conceptions of children’s rights and accompanying duties in India. My PhD project is concerned with the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as de facto ‘duty bearers’ of human rights, specifically children’s protection rights in central and northern India. Through an ethnographic study of ChildLine, a 24-hour helpline for children, I explore how children’s rights are affected in practice when significant aspects of child protection are left dependent on local NGOs; how the concepts of child rights and duty bearers are vernacularised throughout a large NGO working at many levels; as well as the notion of ‘universal human rights’ in a context where the state retreats as the de facto duty bearer.

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Arjumand Bano Kazmi

Biography:

I am a political scientist with a keen interest in analysing social and political dynamics in the fields of development and law. I am an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advance Study and a Sessional Tutor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. Prior to pursuing a PhD in Law, I worked as Head of Policy for Voice4Change England – a national charity representing the voice of the Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector in England.

Research interests:

International development and democratisation; democratic theory; constitutional law; human rights and rule of law; women’s rights and gender equality; international law and international organisations; constitutionalism in Muslim states; phenomenology; qualitative social science research.

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Abhinav Kumar Mishra

Biography:

Mr. Mishra is the LLB from BHU, India and LLM from The Indian Law Institute in IP and Human Rights. He then started University teaching of Cyber Law, Human Rights and New Technologies. He has been Research Fellow at IIP, Tokyo and visiting lecturer at The Indian Law Institute and Lloyd Law College, India.

Research interests:

Law Technology and Development, IP and Development, Sustainable Development Policies, New Technologies, Rights and Human Rights

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Chairman Okoloise

Biography:

Chairman Okoloise is a Doctor of Laws (LLD) candidate, DAAD (German Academic Exchange) scholar and Academic Associate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained a Master of Laws degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa cum laude at the University of Pretoria in 2015 and his Bachelor of Laws at the Ambrose Alli University in 2010. Chairman is a former postgraduate intern at the Department of Political Affairs of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is currently researching on corporate accountability for human rights violations in the extractive industries in Africa. His presentation at the 3rd LDRN Conference was on “Access to justice by victims of corporate human rights abuses in the extractive industries in Africa: Beyond a state-focal accountability system.”

Research interests:

His research interests include international development law, business and human rights, environmental and natural resource governance, accountability of transnational corporations, international human rights law in Africa, international financial institutions, and international economic law.

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Kindong Eric Kinchi

Biography:

Kindong Eric Kinchi is from Cameroon. He obtained an LLB (2012) and an LLM (2014) from the University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon and a Postgraduate diploma in Sustainable Development and Human Rights (2019) from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is currently working at Girls Corner International in the double capacity as Project/Human Rights officer since February 2018. He served as a paralegal for Shalom Legal Consultants. Between October 2016 and October 2018, he was Assistant to the Community Development officer for the Green Forest Foundation, Cameroon. During this period, we were involved in a number of projects on community development, rights based approaches to conservation, gender mainstreaming in conservation and development projects, Human Rights and policy analysis. He possesses an in-depth knowledge of the legal framework and policy issues that surround community development projects.

Research interests:

His principal area of research and study interest is Law and Development covering several themes within that interface including sustainable development policy, Human Rights,Business and Globalization, International Humanitarian Law, Gender Mainstreaming in Human Rights, Peace, and Development Work amongst others.

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Edoba Omoregie

Biography:

I was born April 5, 1969 in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. I possess Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Master of Laws (LL.M) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) of the University of Benin. I am also a Barrister and Solicitor enrolled to practice law in Nigeria. I joined the academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Benin in January 1998 and rose from the rank of Assistant Lecturer to Lecturer II, Lecturer I, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and to Professor between January 1998 and October, 2015. I am currently on academic leave with the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), the official legal and policy organ of Nigeria’s National Assembly, Abuja as Head of its Legal Research Division. Am married to Professor Ehimwenma Sheena Omoregie (a Biochemist), with children.

Research interests:

My primary research interest are comparative constitutionalism, comparative federalism and normative federalism, with particular emphasis on distribution of powers in the federalism, judicial review of distributed powers in the federal system. I also research on law reforms, legislations, legislative process and drafting and legislative strengthening mechanisms. I also have keen research interests in procurement law and its uses in anti-corruption efforts.

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Adetutu Oluwaseyi

Biography:

Adetutu OLUWASEYI has worked as a State Counsel at the Ekiti State Ministry of Justice Nigeria for about 8years. Prior to her PhD candidacy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, she has been involved in extensive advisory role in diverse governmental projects, legislative reform, drafting, providing technical support in complex contracts and implementation process and representing the State in Litigation. She was Director Legal Services at the Ekiti State Pension Commission (Nigeria) where she was involved in making complex decisions in administering the Contributory Pension Funds of the State. In 2013, she was appointed Legal Assistant to the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ekiti State Nigeria. She has a solid background in public service administration having started her career as an Administrative Officer in the Civil Service of Ekiti state Nigeria in 2006. She holds a B.A Philosophy (Nigeria), LL.B (Nigeria), LL.M (Nigeria) and LL.M International Trade & Investment Law in Africa (South Africa). Further, she has extensive experience in Africa-China economic relations. She is a research fellow of the China-Africa Legal Research Centre and member of the International and Nigerian Bar Associations.

Research interests:

My research interest lies in International trade, Economic Development, Regional Integration and Public Policy. I am currently investigating how the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) can be an effective tool for boosting intra-African Trade in the context of informal cross border trade at the University of Cape Town.

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Ntandokayise Ndlovu

Biography:

My name is Ntandokayise Ndlovu, Nelson R Mandela School of Law University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Currently time on task lecturer and LL.D candidate specialising in child rights, child Law and harmful practices.

Research interests:

My research interests are in international human rights law, international criminal law, bussiness and human rights, socio economic rights and child rights

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Sam Adelman

Biography:

Sam Adelman teaches and researches climate change, legal theory, and international development law and human rights in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. He has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard University and Warwick University. He was banned, detained and exiled during the struggle against apartheid. He is European Director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, and a research associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He is currently co-authoring a book on climate justice with Upendra Baxi and editing a Research Handbook on Climate Justice and Human Rights.

Nokukhanya Farise

Biography:

I commenced my law career at Bowmans, a premier law firm in South Africa where I gained experience in corporate commercial law and eventually specialised in corporate employment law. I was then granted a scholarship to pursue an LL.M in Rule of Law for Development at Loyola University of Chicago at the Rome campus in Italy. After completion of my studies, I worked for the International Development Law Organisation as a researcher focusing on public health issues in The Hague. Thereafter, I had the opportunity to work for the African Union Commission as a legal associate in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I then worked as a senior lawyer and program manager for the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa in Johannesburg, where I specialised in Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. I am now completing my LL.M in International and Comparative law at Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland.

Research interests:

I am interested in African regional law, in particular the African Human Rights system and its capacity to provide remedies to victims of human rights violations. I have spent time analysing the mechanisms of the African human rights system in comparison to other regional systems and analysing the barriers to it providing effective remedies. I have studies this phenomenon particularly regarding victims of violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

I have carried out other studies regarding the capacity the African Union to foster democracy and constitutionalism in Africa. I have also studied the AU’s capacity to carry out effective peacekeeping missions on the continent.

In sum, I am interested in African regional law and institutions and their capacity to bring about development in Africa.

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan

Biography:

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan is an Indonesian legal Academics and lecture of International Law. He received Bachelor of Law LL.B majoring in International Law from Universitas Indonesia. During his Bachelor degree, Aristyo concentrated on Public International law, Law of the sea, Environmental law, and Law of Diplomatic Relations. During law school, Aristyo got a diploma for a summer program on the International law from the Oriel College University of Oxford, United Kingdom and Utrecht University School of law, The Netherland. He was also Researcher at the Center for International Law Studies (CILS) where he does research on the implementation of the International law in Indonesia. Aristyo has also worked as the executive secretary of Center for Sustainable Ocean Policy (CSOP) where he does involve in numerous consultancy and research work for the Indonesian Government and NGO’s such as; The Indonesian Coast Guard, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Oxfam Foundation. He also involved as a project assistant for the Indonesian Presidential Task Force for Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF).

Research interests:

His research interest sits at the intersection of public international law, law and development, third world approach of international law, and global governance.

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Dan Nshokano Kashironge

Biography:

Dan is currently a PhD Researcher at VUB, he holds an LL.M. in International Business Law from Université libre de Bruxelles, an LL.B. from Africa Nazarene University (Kenya), and Postgraduate Certificates in Sustainable Development and Human Rights from the University of Antwerp and in Continental Law from Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).

Research interests:

International Law (TWAIL), OHADA Law, Investment Law & Arbitration, African (Sub-)Regional Integration, Sustainable Development and Human Rights.

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Ada Ordor

Biography:

Ada Ordor is an Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA), Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town (UCT). She has held academic positions at the Nigerian Law School from 2001 to 2007 and visiting research positions at the African Gender Institute, UCT in 2000 as a visiting associate and at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies, Baltimore in 2003 as a senior international philanthropy fellow. She is an international fellowship alumna of the American Association of University Women and editor of the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa. Having worked in various sectors since 1990, including legal practice, civil society and academia, she explores issues of law and development from various perspectives that demonstrate the interconnectedness of development processes and the laws that govern them. She supervises postgraduate research and convenes the masters course in Law, Regional Integration and Development in Africa at UCT.

Research interests:

Ada Ordor researches in the area of Law and development, regional integration, civil society and plural normative systems in Africa. Her scholarship is demonstrated in the following sample of her published work: “Tracking the Law and Development Continuum through Multiple Intersections”, published in Law and Development Review (2015), “Applying the tool of Comparative Law to the Study of Africa’s Multiple Development Pathways” in Salvatore Mancuso and Charles Fombad (Eds) Comparative Law in Africa (Cape Town: Juta, 2015), “Exploring Civil Society Partnerships in Enforcing Decent Work in South Africa” Chapter 9 of Deirdre McCann et al (eds) Creative Labour Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World (2014 Palgrave Macmillan/ILO). More recently, she co-edited the Law and Development Review 2018 Special Conference Issue with Faizel Ismail and also co-edited the book Ending Africa’s Energy Deficit and the Law: Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2018) with Yinka Omorogbe.

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Andrea Mensi

Biography:

I am a PhD candidate in international and EU law at Bocconi University in Milan and a former trainee at the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), EU Delegation to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris. Currently, I am working on a PhD thesis on the concept of sovereignty over natural resources in international law under the supervision of prof. Roger O’Keefe (Bocconi) and Ilaria Espa (Bern and Lugano University). I have a four-year experience as research assistant in Italian and Swiss universities in the field of European Union law and I published articles on leading international and Italian reviews. Moreover, I worked for three years in leading law firms on EU law and litigation. I have a professional knowledge of English, Italian, French, Spanish and German.

Research interests:

My research area include public international law and international environmental law. I am particularly interested in sovereignty, international environmental treaties unilateral environmental measures and indigenous rights.

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Rima Rassi

Biography:

Rima Rassi is a PhD Researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has years of experience in academic and research settings, having worked at universities and think tanks/research institutes in Lebanon and abroad. Rima holds a Master of Arts in Sociology from the American University of Beirut (2008). For the past ten years, her research has been dedicated to the study of population movements and refugee crises in Lebanon and the greater Arab region. She has presented at and participated in more than twenty conferences, seminars and workshops and has a number of publications on refugee issues. For her PhD dissertation in Development Studies, Rima seeks to investigate the origins of UNHCR’s “surrogate state” role in dealing with the recent Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon via adopting a critical realist approach, to understand the dynamics of the relationship between UNHCR and Lebanese authorities.

Research interests:

Development Studies

UNHCR

United Nations

Refugees

Syrian Refugees

Palestinian Refugees

Population Movements

International Law

Critical Realism

Non-refoulement

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Fachrizal Afandi

Biography:

Fachrizal is a lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law, Universitas Brawijaya Indonesia. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute. Fachrizal received his Bachelor degree in Indonesian Criminal Law from Brawijaya Law School, Psychology (BSc) from Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University and Indonesian Bussiness Law (LLM) from Brawijaya Law School.

He also has experience as the public defender and legal aid activist. In 2011, he founded the Center for Socio-Legal Studies at Universitas Brawijaya. He is currently the Executive Coordinator of the Center for criminal justice research (PERSADA) at the same university.

Research interests:

Fachrizal’s major research includes Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Justice System, Law and Society and Access to Justice

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María José Recalde-Vela

Biography:

María José Recalde-Vela is an Ecuadorian-Honduran PhD candidate at Tilburg Law School, as part of the European Doctorate on Law and Development (EDOLAD), working under the supervision of Professor Morag Goodwin and Dr. Laura van Waas. She was a Trainee with the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion for the period of January – July 2017. She is also currently the co-managing editor of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review, a joint initiative of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and Melbourne Law School. Ms Recalde-Vela holds an LL.M in international and European Law, a M.Sc. In Victimology and Criminal Justice and an LL.M in Legal Research, all from Tilburg University. She is the 2014 winner of the UNHCR Award for Statelessness Research in the undergraduate category.

Research interests:

Maria is interested in decolonial approaches to research and practice on broad issues of human rights law and international law, and how they relate to development. Her more specific interest lies in the area of statelessness and citizenship.

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Olivia Lwabukuna

Biography:

Olivia is a pan-African lawyer and advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Swaziland, Master of Laws from the University of Cape Town and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Pretoria, where she is currently an Extra-Ordinary Lecturer. Before coming to SOAS, Olivia had over a decade of professional and academic experience working in South Africa, Tanzania, Swaziland, Nigeria, Kenya and the United Kingdom within research, public policy, legal practice, development and educational institutions

Olivia is currently a lecturer in the department of Law, SOAS, University of London where she teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules related to Public International Law, Legal Systems of Asia and Africa, Law and Development in Africa and Foundations of Human Rights. She is also an associate editor of the Journal of African Law (Cambridge).

Olivia’s research areas straddle fields of human rights law, migration law, international economic law and international development law.

Research interests:

Olivia’s research interests lie in the area of law’s interaction with development and migration, specifically within an African regional and sub-regional context. In this respect, one particular aspect of her research concentrates on the interdisciplinary and evolving theme of law, governance and economic development. Olivia’s research interests have specifically been directed at engaging with the relationship between trade in natural resources, conflict and development. Her approaches include exploring the extractives industry in Africa (specifically the nascent oil and gas industry) and the evolving regional and domestic governance and regulation system related to it. Her research interrogates the relationship between extractives exploitation, conflict and underdevelopment and explores how law (through governance mechanisms and regulatory frameworks) can support and promote profitable, but also sustainable and inclusive natural resources exploitation in Africa, thus contributing to development in resource rich (fragile/transitioning) African countries.

The other strand of her research is on migration governance in Africa, specifically aspects of internal displacement. Her research specifically concentrates on the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Her interest is in engaging with the concept of displacement, how it is framed within the African context, and why that framing can sometimes be difficult, and create complexities in finding durable solutions to issues of displacement. This is closely linked to equally complex themes of ethnicity, identity, citizenship and statehood in post-colonial African countries, especially within the Great Lakes Region. Regional collaborative approaches to migration governance present a viable vehicle for engaging with displacement within this context. Thus, Olivia’s research also engages with the evolving regional and sub-regional norms and policies related to internal displacement, including their domestication and application within selected countries of the Great Lakes Region.

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Thomas Dollmaier

Biography:

I am a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair for Public Law and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin, where I teach courses in Public International and European Law as well as Law and Development. From October to November 2019 I am an academic intern in the Office of the General Counsel at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing. During my law studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Columbia Law School and King’s College London, I interned with the Federal Foreign Office at the German Embassies in Panama City and Colombo as well as with the German Parliament (Bundestag) and two international law firms in Munich and New York City.

I am part of the editorial team of the international law blog ‚Voelkerrechtsblog‘ (https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/).

Research interest:

My Ph.D. research looks at formalization processes of rulemaking inside Multilateral Development Banks and is situated within the broader literature of international institutional law and law and development. I focus on the multilateral engagement of emerging actors like the BRICS in international development finance.

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Wouter Vandenhole

Biography:

Wouter Vandenhole holds the chair in human rights at the faculty of law of the University of Antwerp (2007-). He was a Veni Grant holder at Tilburg University from 2005 to 2007, and a senior teaching assistant at the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in 2002-2003. From 1995 to 2005, he was a researcher at the University of Leuven. He obtained his PhD in 2001. He holds an LL.B., LL.M. and a BA in Philosophy (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) and an LL.M. in Law in Development (University of Warwick, U.K.).

Research interests:

His research interests include children’s rights, human rights, in particular economic, social and cultural rights, and the relationship between human rights law and development. For some years now, he has focused on transnational human rights obligations, i.e. the human rights obligations of new duty-bearers, and in particular on companies. More recently, he started to explore the conceptual implications of sustainable development for human rights law, with a focus on questions of distribution.

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David Rossati

Biography:

I am an international jurist and Lecturer in Law at Salford Business School. After completing undergraduate and master studies in law at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome) and the University of Edinburgh, I have practiced as legal associate in Climate Focus B.V. (Amsterdam, NL), an international consultancy firm on climate change. After being involved in legal aspects concerning carbon reduction projects of governments and businesses in developing countries, I decided to pursue a PhD at the University of Edinburgh questioning the role and methods of international law in the institutional complex of climate finance, as one of the institutional complexes for international development.

At Salford Business School, I currently I teach international law, as well as research and offer legal advice on international and regulatory issues on climate change law and development.

Research interests:

My research and practice stands at the interface between international environmental, economic and institutional law. For what concerns the ‘law and development’ nexus, I am interested in the international legal structures underpinning institutional complexes and how these affect the livelihoods and ecosystems exposed to international development interventions. On this strand of research, I am currently working on a monograph (Brill) on climate finance after the Paris Agreement, with focus on the regulatory regime of international financial institutions. I am also working on research concerning the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework in the context of implementing the Paris Agreement; another project concerns the role of juridification in the context of accountability mechanisms of development institutions.

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Miguel de Lemos

Biography:

I am a legal advisor by background, specialized in International Law and International Relations, with seven years of experience dealing with political and governmental issues, namely in the areas of political counselling, legal affairs, rule of law, democratic governance and capacity/institutional building.

My experience comprises working in developing countries transitioning to democracy, such as Myanmar, where I have worked with the United Nations Development Program´s Justice Project, as a Rule of Law Officer.

Previously to that I was in Timor-Leste (East Timor), where I had the opportunity to first work as legal advisor to the Minister of Justice and then as legal advisor to the National Parliament (with UNDP), legal consultant to the Justice Sector Reform, and also external consultant to the then Association of East Timorese Lawyers, which would later evolve to be the Bar Association.

Additionally I was involved in short missions to Cape Verde, Australia, India and Switzerland, in this last case in the context of the UN Human Rights Council for the presentation of the first Timor-Leste’s Universal Periodic Review Report.

Research interests:

Currently I am doing my PhD in Law researching on Rule of Law in developing countries.

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Lucía Berro Pizzarossa

Biography:

Lucía Berro Pizzarossa is a Fellow at the Global Health Law Groningen Research Centre and a PhD Candidate at the International Law Department at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She works as a legal advisor for MYSU (Women & Health in Uruguay) where she coordinates a strategic litigation project focused on sexual and reproductive health rights. She is a Women Deliver fellow and is an advocate for women’s access to sexual and reproductive rights in forums such as the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and the High Level Political Forum. She was based at the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of Western Cape in South Africa conducting research within the Socio-Economic Rights Project. She is one of the academic coordinators of the Gender & Diversity Summer School at the University of Groningen, a board member of the Centre for Gender Studies and a member of the Steering Committee of the “Audre Project” that seeks to understand the experiences of LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual) youth and young adults with their time in out-of-home care.

Research interests:

Human Rights, Gender and the Law, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender Stereotyping, Gender based violence, Health, Critical Theory, Gender identity and sexual orientation, Transformative Equality.

Esther Effundem Njieassam

Biography:

My names are Njieassam Esther Effundem, a holder of Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons), University of Buea, Cameroon. I also hold a Master of Laws degree (LLM) and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) at North-West University, Mafikeng.

Research interests:

My research interests are human rights, environmental law, social justice, labour law, dispute resolution.

Rimma Grishmanovskaya

Biography:

Rimma is a second year PhD EDOLAD researcher at Tilburg University, Netherlands. Her educational background includes a degree in International Law from Moscow State Law University (Russia) and a Master’s Degree in Project Design for Development Cooperation from Sapienza University (Italy). Rimma also attended courses on EU Law and cultural mediation and taught as a guest lecturer on Rule of Law and Development Assistance at Sapienza University and Temple University (Rome campus).Rimma’s current research interests include rule of law, judicial bureaucracies of the developing countries, in particular, in post-Soviet space,and international development actors.

Rimma’s professional experience includes over five years of consultancy work for intergovernmental organizations (International Development Law Organization, UN Food and Agriculture Organization) in rule of law program development and implementation in Central Asia, Western Balkans and Eastern Europe. Thematically, her work covers alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, establishment and functioning of specialized courts, informal justice systems, institutional strengthening and capacity building for justice reform professionals. Rimma is proficient in Russian, English and Italian languages.

Research interests: My research interests include broader law and development field, and in particular development cooperation in the rule of law sphere, as well a

s gender, informal justice and data and development.

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Ramy Bulan

Biography:

Ramy Bulan, holds PhD, National University) Australia. LLM (Bristol, England, LLB. Hons (Malaya) Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court (Sabah and Sarawak ). She has worked as part time magistrate in the Legal and Judicial service.

Dr Bulan is now a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University Malaya where she was associate professor. She teaches Equity and Trust and Administration of Estates. She has also taught Jurisprudence , Legal Writing and Malaysian Legal System and co-author of the book The Introduction to the Malaysian Legal System (2002, Oxford Bakti), a standard text for first year students. At postgraduate level she teaches International Human Rights Law, Issues Relating to Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, Comparative Native and Aboriginal Title.

Dr Bulan was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya (2006-2008).

In 2007-2008, and 2010-2013 Dr Bulan was consultant to the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) and was consultant for the National Inquiry into Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples and wrote the Report on “Legal Perspectives on Native Customary Land Rights in Sarawak” (Suhakam, 2008), “The Conceptual and Legal Framework on Indigenous Land Rights in Malaysia” (2013) and is lead author of “Issues and Conflicts on Orang Asli Lands in Peninsula Malaysia (2013, Suhakam). Her PhD research was on Kelabit Customary Land Rights in Transition (ANU 2005). She has published widely on indigenous land rights and also done consultancy and action research on Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution in Native Courts as well as Multistakeholder Processes in the oil palm plantation sector.

Research interests:

International Human Rights Law, Indigenous Peoples in International law, Legal Systems, Traditional knowledge, Customary Laws and Customary Land Tenure, Native / Aboriginal and Customary Land Rights, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Restorative Justice , Multistakeholder Processes

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Sumit Sonkar

Biography:

Presently, I am pursuing PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research interests:

Comparative Constitutional Law and Intellectual Property Rights.

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Paul D. Ocheje

Biography:

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4. I joined the faculty of the University of Windsor in July, 2000. I hold 4 degrees in law – a Bachelor’s, two Master’s and a doctorate. Before 2000, I was on the faculty of the University of Benin Law School, Nigeria. I was also State Counsel at the Kano State Ministry of Justice, Nigeria. A member of the Nigerian Bar since 1983, I have also been a member of the Law Society of Ontario since 2003.

Research interests:

My research interests spans the intersection of law with societal development. In this regard I have tried to understand how law may help in the effort to improve the social, economic, and political conditions of human beings. Matters of access to justice, social or institutional change, and international governance have occupied the centrepiece of my research, which has been published in many renowned academic journals. My articles have appeared in the Law and Development Review, the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Journal of African Law, and the Crime, Law and Social Change, and as chapters in books.

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Juan Carlos Botero

Biography:

Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Law School in Bogota, Colombia, where he teaches legal history and empirical legal research methods. Doctorate in Juridical Sciences form Georgetown University, master of laws from Harvard Law School, and “abogado” (law degree) from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). Admitted to practice law in the State of New York, USA (2000) and the Republic of Colombia (1996).

Previous experiences include ten years as the World Justice Project’s Executive Director and Rule of Law Index Director; service as Chief International Legal Counsel at the Colombian Ministry of Commerce; researcher at Yale University and the World Bank; Director of Instituto de Ciencia Politica in Colombia; and Judicial Clerk at the Colombian Constitutional Court. Member of HiiL’s Programmatic Steering Board and the World Economic Forum’s Global Expert Network. He has been a professor or guest lecturer in several countries.

Research interests:

Professor Botero’s academic publications focus on rule of law, access to justice, labor regulation, and comparative law.

Measuring law & development indicators for over 100 countries.
Access to justice worldwide
Economic consequences of regulation in comparative perspective

He has extensive experience developing indicators to measure performance of institutions in countries around the world. At the World Justice Project, he led the development of the WJP Rule of Law Index and other empirical legal research projects globally. As a researcher at Yale University and the World Bank, he participated in the methodological design of the indices of judicial efficiency and dispute resolution, and labor regulation for the World Bank’s Doing Business indicators.

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Edward van Daalen

Biography:

Edward van Daalen is a PhD researcher in law at the Centre for Children’s rights Studies (CCRS) of the University of Geneva since March 2015. Within an interdisciplinary research group, he is working on the FNS project ‘Living Rights in Translations: An interdisciplinary approach of working children’s rights’ which focuses on the trajectories and translations of working children’s rights. In his thesis, he explores the relationship between third world resistance and international law, using empirical findings on the role and resistance of working children’s movements in the development of international child labour law. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris.

Research interests:

International Law – Development – Human Rights – Children’s Rights – Child Labour – Working Children’s Movements – Social Movements – Law and Resistance – TWAIL – SDGs

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Klaus D. Beiter

Biography:

Namibian-born Klaus D. Beiter is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at North-West University, Potchefstroom. He holds B.Iur. LL.B. degrees from the University of South Africa, Pretoria, and a doctorate in international human rights law from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, where he wrote his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bruno Simma. He produced the first English-language monograph on the right to education in international law. He spent two years at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, as a Marie Curie Fellow on freedom of science in Europe and Africa (2013–15). He is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (where he was a Senior Research Fellow from 2006–13), a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property and of the European Society of International Law. He is a member of the Consortium for Human Rights beyond Borders in Heidelberg, one of twelve ambassadors of the Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum on Academic Freedom in Bologna, and a researcher-advocate for the Scholars at Risk Network in New York.

Research interests:

Prof. Beiter focuses on the right to education, higher education, academic freedom, freedom of science and the law of science, minority rights (language, religion, and culture), intellectual property and human rights, and the extraterritorial application of human rights. Recent publications include:

K.D. Beiter, ‘Is the Age of Human Rights Really Over? The Right to Education in Africa: Domesticization, Human Rights-Based Development, and Extraterritorial State Obligations’, 49(1) Georgetown Journal of International Law 9–88 (2017).

K.D. Beiter, ‘Where Have All the Scientific and Academic Freedoms Gone? And, What Is “Adequate for Science”? – Crucial Guidance on the Interpretation of the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress and Its Applications’, 52(2) Israel Law Review 1–70 (2019, forthcoming).

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Eriola Sovali

Biography:

I am a PhD candidate at Saarland University ( Saarbrücken, Germany) with a field of study “Human Rights in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration” under the supervision of Prof. Dr Thomas Giegerich LLM.

Prior to the enrollment as a PhD candidate, I have completed the Master Programme at Europa Institute (Saarland University) in European and International Law. During the LLM studies, i have acquired specialisation in International Dispute Resolution and Protection of the European Human Rights.

Furthermore, I am a qualified lawyer in Albania and have been working as a lawyer for the public and private sector for 7 (seven) years. Mainly I have worked as a civil servant for the Albanian Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice and lately as adviser of the Deputy Prime Minister of Albania.

Research interests:

My research interest is international arbitration and human rights protection.

Miftah Farid Hanggawan

Biography:

Farid — an avid reader of books about the history of civilizations and legal institutions — has been working at the Department of Law, Society, and Development at the Faculty of Law University of Indonesia formally since 2011. During the period from 2010 to 2014, He has worked for two research institutions that were frequently worked with private entities, transnational donor organizations, the People’s Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia, and the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia; as well as involved in the projects of transnational funding agencies and worked as the legal consultant for a transnational organization.

Up to December 2016, He has worked as the legal consultant for the National Development Planning Agency. One of his main tasks at the Agency is running the regulatory reform program & conducting legal review of various infrastructure project, such as bay reclamation as well as high-speed rail project. Currently, besides his academic activities, he is working as an independent consultant on Regulatory Governance and Impact Assessment, Legislative Drafting, ex-post Evaluation of Regulations, and various Legal Development projects for the central/local government.

He received a master of science degree in sociology (specialization: economic sociology of technology) — with a thesis on the social and institutional context of information technology startup companies — and a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Indonesia.

Research interests:

1. Law, Technology, and Development

2. Regulatory Governance & Impact Analysis

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Arpitha Kodiveri

Biography:

Arpitha Kodiveri is a legal researcher focusing on environmental justice issues. She is a doctoral researcher and Hans Kelsen Fellow at the European University Institute where her work studies the intersection of free, prior and informed consent, business and human rights in India. She was previously a senior research associate at the Ashoka Trust of Research in Ecology and the Environment where her work focuses on understanding the conflict of laws in forest areas. Prior to ATREE she worked as an environmental lawyer with Natural Justice supporting Adivasi communities in their struggle for rights over resources in Rajasthan and Odisha. She has also explored the intersections of environmental law and design as the co-founder of the design+environment+law laboratory at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. She has a Masters with a focus in Environmental Law from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law as a Fulbright Scholar and a Bachelors in law from ILS law college in Pune.

Research interests:

I am interested in understanding legal strategies used by Indigenous communities in India and elsewhere in the process of asserting their rights to land and resources. My work broadly has focused on socio-legal analysis of the implementation of land laws in India, particularly forest land.

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Rostam J. Neuwirth

Biography:

Rostam J. NEUWIRTH is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of University of Macau where he also serves as the Programme Coordinator of Master of International Business Law (IBL) in English Language. He received his Ph.D. degree from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy) and also holds a Master’s degree in Law (LL.M.) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal (Canada). His undergraduate studies he spent at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Université d’Auvergne (France). Previously, he taught at the West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata (India) and the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU) in Raipur (India). Prior to that, he worked for two year as a legal adviser in Völkerrechtsbüro (International Law Bureau) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Research interests:

Rostam J. NEUWIRTH is the author of the monograph “Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law” (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of The BRICS-Lawyers’ Guide to Global Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and has published more than 70 articles in English, German and French in different peer-reviewed journals all around the world. His research interests are strongly focusing on transdisciplinarity and include the legal areas of international economic law, WTO, EU and BRICS law, the ‘trade linkage debate’ including various ‘trade and … pairs’, like ‘trade and culture’, or ‘trade and development’, as well as intellectual property rights, cultural diversity, comparative law, new technologies as well as cognition.

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Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire

Biography:

Kanksha completed her Master of Laws degree (LLM) from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor of Socio-Legal Sciences, Bachelor of Laws (BSL LLB) from ILS Law College, University of Pune (India).

She has been a legal practitioner for over 9 years. After obtaining her law degree, she worked in premier corporate law firms in India for almost 7 years. She worked for 2.5 years in Vanuatu, an SIDS, as a legal specialist advising a statutory regulator responsible for regulating electricity and water services.

In the academic field, she has been an adjunct faculty at the School of Law, University of the South Pacific (Vanuatu) since 2014. She is a researcher for Professors Michael Trebilcock, Mariana Mota Prado and Trudo Lemmens at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Research interests:

Kanksha’s areas of focus are regulation, and law & international development. In her current research she explores catastrophic natural disasters and their relationship with public institutional performance, with particular focus on SDG16 (effective, accountable and strong government institutions).

Specifically, Kanksha explores how institutional mechanisms could improve the adoption and implementation of disaster risk mitigation practices in developing countries in the aftermath of natural disasters. The goal is to prevent new natural disasters from becoming missed opportunities; to learn from them and improve.

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Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida

Biography:

Professor of International Law, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Rio de Janeiro (since 2008). Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Chair, sponsored by the European Commission at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School. Associate Researcher at the Institute of International and European Law at the Sorbonne (IREDIES). Professor of International Law of the Masters in International Relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Member of the ILA Committee on the Procedural Law of International Courts and Tribunals. Chair of the Latin American Society of International Law (LASIL) Interest Group on ‘International Courts and Tribunals’.

Research interests:

Access to international justice and human rights; International Courts and Tribunals; Global Regulation and non state actors

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David Lempert

Biography:

Dr. Lempert is the author of the first treatise on International Development Law (2018), the first textbook on national sustainable development planning (1996), the first work on Soviet legal culture and transitions (1995, two volumes), and one of the first neo-Malthusian models of political stability and violence (on Mauritius, 1987).

Dr. Lempert is a Ph.D. social (legal and development) anthropologist (U.C. Berkeley), and international human rights/sustainability/legal development lawyer and consultant (Stanford J.D. and M.B.A./public management) who has worked in 30+ countries on five continents for the U.N. system, the World Bank, EC, international NGOs (including WWF, IUCN, Amnesty International), community based organizations, universities, foundations, and governments.

He has founded and run the NGO, Unseen America Projects, Inc., pioneering democratic experiential education curricula at the university level globally, and the Southeast Asian Cultural and Environmental Heritage Protection Project in the Mekong Region as an approach to cultural heritage protection, tolerance and democratization. He has also promoted the International Red Book for Endangered Cultures and the Donor Monitor Project along with various indicators, measures and professional codes in human rights, governance and university disciplines.

Research interests:

Dr. Lempert’s theoretical work focuses on:

– measuring and predicting legal and political systems;

– measuring and predicting processes of change in political and legal cultures;

– measuring and predicting collapse and political violence;

– modeling political, legal and social systems and deep structures of power;

– measures of social “progress” and the ability of legal systems and cultural change to achieve it; and

– the social science of empires.

His applied work includes proposals for:

– model constitutions for cultural rights/federalism and for citizen oversight and power balancing;

– sustainable development plans;

– accountability of international development actors to international law;

– measures of progress in human rights;

– government restructuring for oversight, efficiency and sustainability;

– restructuring university disciplines and review procedures;

– field and clinical curriculum incorporating democratic education and student-run policy projects at the university level;

– cultural rights protections, identity, and promoting historical pride and re-examinations;

– cultural and environmental heritage protection and tourism promotion;

– diaspora bridge centers; and

– professional ethics codes.

He is fluent in English, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese and has a working knowledge of French, German, and Portuguese as well as some basic ability in other languages.

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Insa Männel

Biography:

Insa graduated with distinction from the University of Osnabrück in summer 2017, starting her PhD position and her job as a research assistant there in the following autumn.

Apart from her research, she is also interested in various other topics of societal relevance. For example, she has been involved in the University’s work on equality for women and men for 4 years and has been the equal opportunities commissioner of the law faculty for more than 2 years by now.

Research interests:

In her doctoral thesis Insa compares Germany’s, Austria’s and Great Britain’s administrative law of development cooperation, focussing on the procedure of the whole process.

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Oyeniyi Abe

Biography:

Oyeniyi Abe is a law teacher and an environmental/human rights activist. His broad research interests revolve around Business and Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources Law, Environmental Law, Indigenous Conflict Resolution and Legal Pluralism. He is also interested in gender and human rights, environmental law and conflict resolution within Africa’s pre-colonial landscape. He developed a new course: Indigenous Conflict Resolution, where he is investigating the traditional pathways to resolving conflicts in post-conflict societies or societies in transition. His current research explores the linkages between resource extraction and human rights practices. Oyeniyi is deeply interested in the nexus between corporate conduct and human rights, environment, firms and climate justice. His publications centers around extractive resource governance and rights-based approach to resource development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oyeniyi has studied in Nigeria, Hungary, South Africa, and the United States, where he spent time as a Fulbright Scholar at Loyola University, Chicago. Oyeniyi is currently a University Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria.

Research interests:

I am a business and human rights researcher who has a strong passion for sustainable development practices in the extractive resource industry. I am also interested in gender and human rights, environmental law and conflict resolution within Africa’s pre-colonial landscape. My current research explores the linkages between resource extraction and human rights practices, and my work focusses on the human rights-based approach to extractive resource governance and engages with scholarship on adaptation and integration of business and human rights principles into domestic legal regime.

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Kinkino Kia Legide

Biography:

My name is Kinkino Kia Legide. I was born in Arbegona, Ethiopia on 26th September 1988. I went to Hawassa University School of Law and earned my LLB Degree with Distinction in July 2013. I also have earned my LLM Degree in Commercial Law from Hawassa University (Ethiopia) in June 2017. I have produced my LLM Thesis on The Developmental State Policy and Its Implications on Laws in Ethiopia. I have a deep interest in further pursuing my studies in Law and Development from the broader theoretical perspectives and also studying the case study form the experiences of my country. Hoping to be in a ready track, I am currently pursuing my interdisciplinary study in Advanced Master of Science in Governance and Development at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Research interests:

I have a deep interest in further pursuing my studies in Law and Development. I am specifically interested in researching on the role of law in development and governance from the broader theoretical perspectives and also studying the case study from the experiences of my country.

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Imad Antoine Ibrahim

Biography:

Imad Antoine Ibrahim, PhD Candidate in Law at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development (DIRPOLIS), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy; Research Associate & Project Manager at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development, Essex, United Kingdom and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization (CIGRU) & Institute of Water Security and Science (IWSS), West Virginia University, United States.

Previously, he was an EU commission Marie Curie Fellow at Tsinghua University School of Law, THCEREL—Center for Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law and at the CRAES—Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Sciences in Beijing (China). He also worked as a researcher in several European and Italian institutes and universities such as the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) and Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara.

Imad is currently an Energy policy expert at the Lebanese Oil & Gas Initiative – LOGI, Beirut Lebanon while previously he was a trainee lawyer at the Jad Law Firm. He holds a master in European Interdisciplinary Studies, from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and Bachelor in Law from the Lebanese University “Filiere Francophone de Droit”, Beirut, Lebanon.

Research interests:

International Water Law, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Climate Change Law, International Law, Trade Regulation and WTO Law, EU Law

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Nedim Hogic

Biography:

I am a Bosnian lawyer and a PhD candidate at Sant Anna University. His main research interests include corruption studies, public international law and South East European politics. He worked in international, nongovernmental and political organizations on legal, political and developmental issues. He holds an LLM degree from Harvard Law School and a LLB from University of Sarajevo.

Research interests:

Corruption, international law, sociology of law, rule of law, political party regulation.

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Bashar H. Malkawi

Biography:

Bashar H. Malkawi is Dean and Professor of Law at University of Sharjah. He received his S.J.D from American University, Washington College of Law, and LLM in International Trade Law from University of Arizona. His academic career has traversed both business and law schools, teaching a variety of business law courses in Jordan, UAE, Italy, and United States. He spent two years as Assistant Dean at Hashemite University’s Faculty of Economics and as Associate Dean for Graduate programs at University of Sharjah College of Law.

His research agenda focuses on the role of the World Trade Organization from developing countries’ perspective, regional trade agreements, and Arab economic integration.

Prof. Malkawi is the author of numerous books and monographs. His academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in several leading journals. In addition to law articles and academic books, his op-eds and other writings have appeared in the popular press in the U.S. and the Middle East. Many of his research papers and publications have been cited extensively. In addition to his scholarship, Prof. Malkawi regularly provides consulting service to international organizations, governments, and multinational law firms on matters related to commercial law.

Research interests:

Prof. Bashar H. Malkawi has published extensively in the areas of international trade, intellectual property, and business law. Prof. Bashar H. Malkawi has a healthy research agenda that includes several major streams of research in which he is involved. These include international trade and economic integration from developing countries’ perspectives. Twenty-four articles have already been published in this stream. Another research stream is related to intellectual property. Two book chapters and many articles have already been published in this stream. Another research stream is related to business law (broadly defined). Prof. Malkawi co-authored and edited numerous books and monographs. In the various targeted journals lists, there are top academic journals in which he have published my papers (e.g. Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of World Trade, Journal of World Intellectual Property, and Manchester Journal of International Economic Law).

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Patrick Vrancken

Biography:

Prof Patrick Vrancken holds LLM and LLD degrees from the University of Cape Town and has more than 25 years teaching and academic management experience at university level. He is the author of numerous research outputs in national and foreign accredited law journals and books, the managing editor of the Journal of Ocean Law and Governance in Africa, the author of “South Africa and the Law of the Sea” published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers in Leiden and Boston in 2011 as well as the main editor of “The Law of the Sea: The African Union and its Member States” published by Juta in Cape Town in 2017. He is the incumbent of the South African Research Chair in the Law of the Sea and Development in Africa hosted by the Nelson Mandela University, funded by the South African Department of Science and Technology and managed by the South African National Research Foundation.

Research interests:

Law of the sea in Africa

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Somadina Ibe-Ojiludu

Biography:

Apart from his undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and
Theology, Somadina Ibe-Ojiludu has an LLB in Law from City Law School,
City University of London; a Masters (LLM) in Human Rights, Conflict and
Justice (with a dissertation awarded a distinction) from SOAS University
of London. He currently undertakes his Phd research that revolves on Law
and Development (through the human rights-based approach to development).

Research interests:

Public Law, Law and Development, Human Rights Law,
Transitional Justice, International Criminal Law, Public International Law

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Tuğba Karagöz

Biography:

Tuğba Karagöz is a research fellow at the Julius Maximilians
University of Würzburg, where she also teaches Turkish constitutional law
and international institutional law. She received her PhD in law at Goethe
University Frankfurt (2018). She holds an LL.M. from the University of
Lausanne in the field of international and European economic and commercial law. Her recent research explores how foreign investment insurance works and how political risks are conceptualized by investment insurers. She focuses on the intersection of international and domestic legal systems in the operation of foreign investment insurance arrangements. Her analysis of foreign investment insurance is recently published in the Journal of World Investment and Trade.

Research interests:

Tuğba Karagöz’s field of interest is international
investment law. She engages disputes over the protection of foreign
investment and its impacts on domestic as well as international law- and
policy-making.

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Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga

Biography:

Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga, currently a Legal Adviser – Rule of Law, at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters, London, United Kingdom, is an Advocate/Attorney at Law with 18 years’ standing.

With 21 years’ experience in legal, legislative and policy analysis work, she has served as Vice President of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel; Legal Officer in the United Nations’ Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Principal Legislative Counsel at the Parliament of Uganda; and Lecturer in the post-graduate programme at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at Makerere University, Uganda, among others.

Ms. Bakibinga-Gaswaga has experience in providing legislative drafting and legal advisory services, rule of law programme management, managing peacekeeping operations, global governance, building partnerships, mobilising resources, the development of legal, policy and institutional frameworks, negotiating with governments, organisations and rule of law institutions as well as capacity building. She has initiated and participated in capacity building programmes worldwide as designer, manager, trainer, facilitator, presenter, rapporteur and resource person.

Ms. Bakibinga-Gaswaga attended Makerere University, Boston University and the University of Oslo, among others. She is an advocate for girl child education and well-being in developing countries and a proponent of an inter-disciplinary approach to the law.

Research interests:

Law and development; rule of law systems architecture; regulatory impact assessments; rule of law capacity building; gender and development; law and society; law and complexity; legal pluralism; legislative drafting; law reform; gender and the law; religion and the law; customary law; environmental law; health and the law; and legal education and development.

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Isabela Warioba

Biography:

Isabela is a lecturer of human rights law at Mzumbe University in Tanzania. She is currently a PhD in law candidate at the University of Antwerp. She also has an LL.M in Human Rights and Democratisation of Africa from the Centre for Human Rights, Pretoria South Africa, an LL.B from Mzumbe University in Tanzania and a post graduate diploma in legal practice from the Law School of Tanzania. She has a diploma from Abo Akademi University Institute of Human Rights from participating in the advanced course on international protection of human rights. She was also the first laureate of the University of Antwerp Law Faculty’s 2016 Sustainable Development and Human Rights (SUSTLAW) international training programme.

Research interests:

Her PhD research is focusing on the localization of human rights. It seeks to better understand whether the way in which human rights are mobilised and strategically utilised at the local level can have an impact on the formulation and interpretation of international human rights law. Her research interests include localization of human rights, vernacularization, children’s rights, women’s rights and access to justice.

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Stéphanie de Moerlooose

Biography:

Professor of International Development Cooperation at Universidad Austral in Argentina, with a background in public international law (NYU and University of Geneva). Practiced as a legal officer and consultant in international development projects.

Research interests:

I am interested in the relationship between law and development, especially on conditionality and the intended and actual effects of legal transplants on local development. My research fields include:

(1) international economic law, focusing on international environmental and social standards

(2) international accountability mechanisms and other remedies for the people affected by development projects as well as the responsibility for Human Rights violations of development funders

(3) the relationship between local law, international law and international investment standards

(4) matters related to consultation and involuntary resettlement in development-based projects, especially of Indigenous Peoples

(5) blended finance for development.

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Giedre Jokubauskaite

Biography:

Since 2018 Giedre is a Lecturer in International Law at the
University of Glasgow. Prior to this, she was a Post-Doctoral Research
Associate on the project ‘Constructing Authority in International Law’ at
Durham Law School, funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research
Council. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2016.
Giedre teaches and has broad research interests in international law,
sustainable development, land rights, human rights and political philosophy.
Before joining academia in the UK, she worked as a civil society advocate in
Lithuania, Ukraine, Cameroon and Germany. Giedre’s monograph ‘Law and
Accountability towards People Affected by Development Projects’ will be
published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Her current research
focuses on the relationship between international law, political economy and sustainable development.

Research interests:

Giedre’s most recent research has been on the concept of ‘affectedness’ and how this new paradigm of global governance is used by financial institutions and grassroots organisations in the context of development interventions. She has a few ongoing research projects that explore the possibility of stakeholder engagement in development projects through mediation, the authority of law in negotiating development projects, and the link between land rights and environmental impact assessment. Giedre
is also interested in the issues of normativity, and specifically the distinction between legal and other (political, economic, moral) normative
orders.

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Pallavi Kishore

Biography:

Dr. Pallavi Kishore is Associate Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, India. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Delhi, India and postgraduate degrees from the Université Paul Cézanne d’Aix-Marseille III, France. She has written and published extensively in English and French in international peer-reviewed journals not only in trade law but also in
other areas of public international law and comparative law.

Research interests:

She has varied interests such as European Law, Comparative Law, and Public International Law. She has also written on human cloning, women’s issues, refugees, territorial disputes, nuclear weapons, environmental law, and consumer protection. Her main interest lies in Trade, Dispute Settlement, and Development.

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Fabiano Teodoro De Rezende Lara

Biography:

Fabiano Teodoro de Rezende Lara holds a BS (1996), Master (2001) and PhD (2008) in Law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Bachelor of Social Communication from PUC-MG (1996). He was Legal Clerk of Minas Gerais Court of Justice from 1997 to 2010. He is currently Professor of Law at Law and International Relations courses at IBMEC, and Associate Professor of Economic Law of the Faculty of Law at UFMG (Undergraduate, Masters and PhD). Visiting Professor of the Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Universita degli Studi di Trento (2018). Member of the Institute of Lawyers of Minas Gerais (IAMG). Member of the Disciplinary Comission of the Sports Court of Justice in Minas Gerais (TJD-MG). Member of the Arbitration Committee of Minas Gerais Bar Asssociation (OAB/MG).

Research interests:

– Law and Development
– Innovation and Development
– Competition Law and Economic Development
– Gender Gap and Development
– Industrial Policy and Sustainable Development

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Karin Arts

Biography:

I see and study international law as a major factor in processes of inclusive, sustainable, and just development and transition, either as an instrument of change or as a vehicle for guarding the status quo. Human rights–based approaches to development, and in particular child rights–based approaches, are central in my recent work.

In addition to ample teaching and research experience, I have professional experience in nearly twenty countries. Through my membership of the Advisory Council on International Affairs I advise the Dutch government and parliament on human rights matters. I am also a member of the supervisory board of the National UNICEF Committee of the Netherlands, and have worked with various development NGOs. In addition I serve as an Executive Editor of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

Research interests:

Some of my most recent teaching and research activities have focused on: the SDGs as tools for inclusive development; the SDGs and children’s rights; the right to development and children’s rights; a child rights perspective on climate change; and the right to development and climate change.

I am also a founding member of the team that annually publishes the Kids Rights Index (joint project ISS, Erasmus School of Economics and the Dutch NGO Kidsrights), a global ranking of state performance in implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Other longstanding research subjects include work on EU-ACP development cooperation, and on the participation of Asian states in multilateral treaties (through the annual treaty section of the Asian Yearbook of International Law).

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Victor Udemezue Onyebueke

Biography:

Dr Victor Udemezue Onyebueke is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (Nigeria), where he is involved in teaching, research and consultancy. Onyebueke holds a Ph.D degree in Geography and Environmental Science from the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. My research interests spans diverse themes of globalisation of African cities, urban-rural linkages, urban land use dynamics, urban informality, neo-customary planning practice, inclusive planning, and planning education. He is a co-author of many journal articles and a chapter on informal business relocation in the book, Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa: The Planners in Dirty Shoes (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) edited by James Duminy, Nancy Odendaal, Jørgen Andreasen, Vanessa Watson, and Fred Lerise.

Research interests:

My research interests spans diverse themes of globalisation of African cities, urban-rural linkages, urban land use dynamics, urban informality, inclusive planning, and planning education. Recently, I am focusing on urbanisation-driven transformation of customary land tenure systems and neo-customary planning practices in Nigerian cities.

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Elizabeth Lwanda-Rutsate

Biography:

Elizabeth Lwanda-Rutsate holds a Doctor of Philosophy-Law degree; the Masters degree in Women’s Law (MWL), the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Bachelor of Law (Honours) (BL) degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. She also holds a Diploma on the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights obtained from Abo Akademi Institute for Human Rights in Finland. Between 1991 and 2002, she worked as a Provincial Magistrate and from 2006 to 2008 was an attorney in private practice. Between 2010 and 2016 when she was doing her Master’s and Doctoral studies, she successfully conducted research consultancies for local NGOs and the local UNDP office on human rights, access to justice, gender and the law.

Elizabeth is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Private Law Department at the University of Zimbabwe teaching under and post graduate courses in gender, international human rights law including the human right water, international water and environmental law. She co-teaches the Master’s degree course on Women, Land, Environmental Resources and the Law with Professor Patricia Kameri-Mbote, a Founding Research Director of the International Environmental Law Research Centre and the Programme Director for Africa, who is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe.

Research interests:

Elizabeth Lwanda-Rutsate, a Law Lecturer has research and teaching interests that revolve around women, gender, the environment (focusing on climate change), natural resources governance as well as sustainable development. Between 2010 and 2013 she was part of the Zimbabwean research team on a regional study covering Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe on “Human Rights, Gender and Water Governance” funded by the Norwegian Research Council and coordinated by the Institute of Women’s Law at the University of Oslo and SEARCWL, University of Zimbabwe. Drawn from findings made from the regional study, Elizabeth co-authored four chapters in the book, “Water is Life! Women’s human rights in national and local water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa,” edited by Anne Hellum and Patricia Kameri-Mbote and published by Weaver Press. The book which approaches water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue shows how coexisting international, national and local regulations of water and sanitation impact differently on how groups of rural and urban women access water for personal, domestic and livelihood purposes. Elizabeth plans to do postdoctoral research on the crosscutting nature of human rights, gender and climate change within the sustainable development discourse.

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Rustamjon Urinboyev

Biography:

I work as a researcher in the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden. At the same time, I am a Marie Skladowska Curie Fellow (employed as a university researcher) in the Aleksanteri Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki.

I have a PhD degree in sociology of law. I defended my doctoral thesis (in 2013) in the Department of Sociology of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.

Research interests:

Rustam works at the intersection of sociology of law and ethnography, analysing the role of law, legal institutions and informal ‘legal orders’ in weak rule-of-law societies (e.g. Russia, Uzbekistan).

His current projects include:

Migration, Shadow Economy and Parallel Legal Orders in Russia (MIGRANT LAW RUSSIA): This project is funded by the European Commission H2020/Marie Skladowska Curie IF and explores the informal adaptation strategies of Central Asian migrant workers in Russia.

Central Asian Migrants in Russia: Legal Incorporation and Adaptation in Hybrid Political Regimes, University of California Press (contract signed, forthcoming Fall 2019) A book project on migrant illegality and informal adaptation strategies in hybrid political regimes. The case of Russia – a hybrid political regime and the world’s third largest recipient of migrants – is used to develop new theoretical perspectives on migrants’ legal incorporations and adaptations in hybrid political regimes.

Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Post-Soviet Context, Routledge (contract signed, forthcoming 2019, co-authored with Mans Svensson) A book project on the role of society’s informal norms and ‘non-monetary currencies’ in the emergence, explanation, persistence and ubiquitousness of corruption. This project is based on my extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Uzbekistan in 2009-2018.

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Giuseppe Bellantuono

Biography:

I am professor of comparative law at the University of Trento, Italy. I hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Private Law from the University of Trento (1996). Between 2014 and 2015 I served as seconded national expert at the European Commission, DG Energy, Energy Policy Unit. I am regularly invited to teach Comparative Law, EU Law and Energy Law in several European and non-European universities. My most recent publications include Comparative Energy Law and Policy, forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2019; G. Bellantuono and F. T. de Rezende Lara (eds.), Law, Development and Innovation, Springer, 2015; Renewables, Investments, and State Aids: Exploring the Legal Side of Policentricity, in A. De Luca and V. Lubello (eds.), The European Union Renewable Energy Transition, Wolters Kluwer, forthcoming 2018; The Misguided Quest for Regulatory Stability in the Renewable Energy Sector, 10 Journal of World Energy Law & Business 274-292 (2017); Brazil and the EU in Transnational Energy Governance, in Revista da Facultade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 147-193 (2017); Contract Law and Regulation, in P. Monateri (ed.), Comparative Contract Law, Elgar Pub., 2017, 111-142.

Research interests:

My research interests are in the fields of energy and climate law, comparative and interdisciplinary methodologies, international contracts, law and technology, law and development, and behavioural legal studies.

Law and Development topics on which I worked recently include:

– the role of transnational governance in shaping the regulation of biofuels and the regulation of trade and investment agreements in the EU and Brazil;

– the use of comparative methodologies in the analysis of implementation measures for the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Joanna Botha

Biography:

I am the Head of Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. I hold the BA and LLB degrees from Rhodes University and an LLD from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. I teach Human Rights Law and Moot Court (with an emphasis on international law and human rights) to under-graduate students on the LLB programme. My research focuses on the intersection between the rights to equality, dignity and freedom of expression, with a particular emphasis on the regulation of hate speech and hate crimes. I am currently exploring vulnerability theory as means to identify the selection of victim groups for “hate legislation”.

Research interests:

Freedom of Expression – Equality – Human dignity – The role of law as a means to achieve social change in society – Vulnerability and victim groups

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Jeremmy Okonjo

Biography:

Jeremmy Okonjo is a Lecturer of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and a Visiting/Honorary Research Fellow at Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) at Warwick Law School. Since 2014, he has taught Public Law and other foundational Law modules at University of Kent, where he also completed his PhD Law program. Jeremmy holds LLM degrees from University College London (UCL) and University of Nairobi, and an LLB degree from University of Nairobi.

Prior to joining Kent Law School, Jeremmy practiced law at Mwagambo & Okonjo Advocates in Nairobi, Kenya, where he specialized in Constitutional law, Human Rights law, election law, and Judicial Review litigation (2008-2013). He has also engaged in transactional aspects of Banking and Finance Law, and corporate and commercial law. Jeremmy was also a Research Associate and Program Manager of the Consitutionalism and Governance program at Innovative Lawyering, a Nairobi-based legal research consultancy (2006-2012).

Research interests:

Jeremmy’s research centers on the ideational and performative constitution and legitimation of law, finance, economy, and society. He is interested in the ideological and performative role of economic, legal and technological ideas and practices in constituting and reproducing specific legal and economic systems and power structures in global political economy, and the emancipatory potential of these ideas and practices, especially in the global South. Jeremmy has published on the global and national regulation of financial markets and financial technologies through extra-territorial EU and US law. His current research project explores the impact of financial technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and other technological innovations on law, financial markets, economy and society.

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Gamze Erdem Türkelli

Biography:

Gamze Erdem Türkelli is a Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) appointed post-doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp Law Faculty and a member of the Law and Development Research Group. She received her PhD in Law at the University of Antwerp (2017). Her doctoral research focused on children’s rights obligations and responsibility for businesses and development finance institutions under international law. Gamze obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) and holds Master’s degrees from the University of Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne (France) and from Yale University (US), where she was a Fulbright Fellow. Previously, Gamze has worked in the private sector as a research analyst and advisor and in the non-profit sector in different capacities.

Research interests:

My research interests include new economic actors in development financing and governance, hybridisation of the public and the private in sustainable development, transnational human rights obligations, the links between law and development and children’s rights. I am currently embarking on a critical legal study of Multistakeholder partnerships in the context of the SDGs, with a focus on accountability of these partnerships in the area of education.

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Herlambang P. Wiratraman

Biography:

Senior Lecturer at Constitutional Law Department and Director of the Center of Human Rights Law Studies (HRLS), Faculty of Law Universitas Airlangga. He graduated Master of Arts on Human Rights and Social Development at Mahidol University (2006) and PhD in Law at Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden Law School (2014). He was previously a visiting researcher/lecturer at Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University (2015), Vietnam National University Law School (2017), Center for Asian Legal Studies NUS Law School (2017), Sydney Myer Asia Center, Faculty of Arts the University of Melbourne (2017) and Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (2018).

He also served as a Chairperson of the Indonesian Association of Legal Philosophy (AFHI, 2013-2014) and the Indonesian Lecturers Association for Human Rights (SEPAHAM Indonesia, 2014-2017). Currently he serves as Steering Committee of Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network (SEAHRN).

Research interests:

Herlambang’s major research includes Constitutional Law, Constitutional Comparative Law, Human Rights, Law and Society, and Press Freedom.

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Ines Kajiru

Biography:

Dr Ines is a Lecturer in the field of human rights at the Faculty of Law, Mzumbe University. She holds LLB and LLM from Mzumbe University Tanzania and PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, for her thesis entitled: The Clash between Harmful Cultural Beliefs and Human Rights: A Case Study of Atrocities against Persons Living with Albinism in Tanzania. She is also an author of several articles in the field of human rights.

Research interests:

Traditional culture, human rights, access to justice and disability rights.

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Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa

Biography:

Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa currently teaches General Commercial Law, Foreign Exchange Regulations, Investment Law and OHADA and Regional Integration in Africa at Université Protestante au Congo (D.R. Congo) and has previously been involved in the teaching of the Law and Development, and Legal Systems of Asia and Africa courses at SOAS, University of London. His scholarship focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the correlation between law, regional integration and socio-economic development in the African context. He recently (2018) published a monograph entitled Regional Developmentalism Through International Law: Establishing An African Economic Community with Routledge, which revises and develops the conclusions of his doctoral research at SOAS, University of London.

Bashi Rudahindwa graduated from Université Protestante au Congo in 2008 (LLB), Indiana University Robert H McKinney School of Law in 2011 (LLM), and SOAS, University of London in 2016 (PhD). He worked in the private sector in DRC before entering academia. Prior to moving to Université Protestante au Congo in October 2016, he worked as graduate teaching assistant at SOAS, University of London.

Research interests:

Current research interests include the social dimensions of regional integration; the political economy of African regional integration initiatives, including the African Union, the Continental Free Trade Area and the African Economic Community; and the development of a nuanced methodological approach to regional integration in Africa named regional developmentalism through law.

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Ward Berenschot

Biography:

Trained as a political scientist (University of Amsterdam), i now work at KITLV as researcher working on politics and governance in India and Indonesia. Author or Riot Politics (Colombia UP, 2009) and Democracy for Sale (Cornell UP, with E. Aspinall, 2019) and several articles on Access to Justice, public service provision, clientelism.

Research interests:

I work on Access to Justice, Governance, Politics in India and Indonesia. Working on a research project on Palm Oil Conflicts in Indonesia

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John Mubangizi

Biography:

Professor John C Mubangizi is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State. Before assuming this position, he was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2007 – 2017). He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), a Masters in Public Law (LLM) and s Doctorate in Law (LLD). He also holds certificates in Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Leadership and Management of Higher Education, and Management of Higher Education Institutions. He is the author of the book entitled The Protection of Human Rights in South Africa: A Legal and Practical Guide (Juta & Company: 2004 and 2013) and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on human rights. He has also presented papers at several national and international conferences. Professor Mubangizi is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and served as Advisor and Member of the ASSAf Council (2012 – 2015). He is also the Chair of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) and a Member of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) of South Africa.

Research interests:

My main research interests are human rights and Constitutional Law. I am the author of a book entitled “The Protection of Human Rights in South Africa: A Legal and Practical Guide “(Juta & Company). In addition, I have published more than forty-five peer-reviewed academic articles in accredited local and international journals – mainly on human rights topics.

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Jeff Handmaker

Biography:

I teach law, human rights, development and social justice and conduct research on legal mobilization at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, which forms part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2017 I was a visiting research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. My long-time association with South Africa and Southern Africa is maintained through my position as an visiting member of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and as Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal on Human Rights. As a socio-legal scholar, my research explores the social and political dimensions of mobilizing law in relation to a variety of contexts and themes. I hold various ancillary positions, including as a project board member of the Public Interest Litigation Project and regularly give public lectures in the Netherlands, Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Research interests:

My academic research has been in three, overlapping areas, all concerning the potential for legal mobilisation to lead to progressive structural change.

The first, long-standing area of research has theorized and evaluated the structural opportunities and constraints of civic-state interactions in the context of human rights advocacy and in particular public interest litigation, with a particular focus on refugees and migrants. While this area of research has focused primarily on South Africa, I have also written on legal mobilization in Latin America, Palestine and the Netherlands. This area of reseach has also critiqued the deleterious effects of evaluating legal doctrine without critically taking into account the social, historical and political context and the pedagogies of legal learning from crisis.

A second, related area of research has been to critically evaluate the content and implementation of laws and policies and the roles of civic actors in the framing and enforcement of these policies. In this area, I have focussed primarily on refugee laws and policies in South Africa, but I have also been examining the negative consequences of the social reproduction by migration experts of concepts such as ‘irregular migration’, and the uncritical application of legal-doctrinal concepts in legal-political analyses of armed conflict and international criminal justice.

A third research area has critically evaluated efforts by civic actors, states and international institutions, to enforce international criminal law, both through international tribunals and in national legal systems.

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Markus Kaltenborn

Biography:

Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of Ruhr-University Bochum, Director of the Institute of Development Research and Development Politics (IEE) at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Research interests:

Markus Kaltenborn has done research on Health Law, Social Security Law, Law of Development Cooperation and Human Rights Law. He is co-editor of “Social Protection in Developing Countries. Reforming Systems” (Routledge 2013), “Entwicklung und Recht” (Development and Law, Nomos Publ. 2014), and “Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights” (Springer Publ., forthcoming), furthermore author of a study on “Social Rights and International Development” (Springer Publ. 2015).

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David Otieno Ngira

Biography:

I hold an LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights from Warwick University.Since 2016,I have been undertaking my PhD at Utrecht University School of Law . My research focuses on the overlap between informal and Formal Justice systems in child justice. I’m also a lecturer at Mount Kenya University School of Law . I teach courses in Human Rights,Legal Theory ,Gender&Development and Socio-legal studies .I have previously worked as a program Manager in various NGOs on Gender and children rights and done consultancy for several organizations key among them Collaborative Center for Gender and Development ,FEMNET and East African Civil Society Organization. I have also worked as a Human Rights Researcher in the Kipsigis Compensation claim in which members of the Kipsigis community are seeking compensation from the British government over colonial injustices.

Research interests:

My research interest lies in the intersection between human rights, development, informal and formal justice systems as well as the implication of this reality on socio-legal development. Specifically I seek to explore how marginalized groups, such as women, children,people with disabilities and poor communities cope access justice in the face of dominant notions of justice/human rights and the additional challenge that comes with their existence at the margins of the legal system. Additionally I’m interested in an exploration of how socio-legal theories including the emerging studies on law and development can re-engineer concern for the marginalized by re-orienting and (or) augmenting the ”mainstream” legal theories.

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Julie Gibson

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Julie received her LLM in International Law and Sustainable Development, with distinction, from the University of Strathclyde in 2016. Her Master’s thesis focused on land restitution, transitional justice and sustainable development within Zimbabwe and South Africa. Subsequently, Julie took up a role as a consultant working on a number of international development projects in Southern Africa, for a variety of donors including the UK Department for International Development and the European Union. She is now completing a PhD at the University of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance where her research focuses on the extent to which transboundary water law and development cooperation align, with particular focus on the Southern African region. Her wider research interests focus on both international water law and international environmental law and their relationship with international development in a broader context. Julie also works as a Research Assistant with the University of Aberdeen on the EU-funded ‘DAFNE’ project which aims to create a decision analytic framework to explore the water-energy-food Nexus in complex transboundary water resource systems of fast developing countries. The project works on two river basins within East and Southern Africa.

Research interests:

Julie’s research explores the relationship between transboundary water law and development cooperation, examining the extent to which frameworks used across both sectors align. Her research conducts an examination of the discourses and frames used, seeking to gain an understanding of their origin and subsequent application. The focus of her work questions whether fewer ‘frames’ and stronger emphasis on the implementation of legal principles could enable a more unified, and therefore more effective, approach to transboundary water governance within development cooperation.

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Ajla Skrbic

Biography:

I hold a PhD in law. I am an Assistant Professor at the International and Public Law departments at the University of Travnik Faculty of Law. I am also the Vice Dean for Scientific Research and Development at the same Faculty.

In 2017 I have been awarded with the Danubius Young Scientist Award 2017 for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2017 I have also been granted the United Nations International Law Fellowship. I am a certified lecturer for the The Civil Service Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for International Law topics.

I have ten years of experience teaching and researching the area of International and Public Law. I have published numerous articles in these fields around the world, and participated in numerous international scientific conferences, seminars, round tables, and schools. In some of them I was in the organizing or science committee.

I am a member of Editorial and/or Review Boards of the several scientific law papers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad.

Research interests:

– International Law

– Rule of Law

– Immunity (of States, International Organizations etc.)

– International Humanitarian Law

– International Criminal Law

– Transitional Justice

– Connections between Law and Social Justice

– The acceptance of International Law by the national institutions

Stellina Jolly

Biography:

Dr. Stellina Jolly is a Senior Assistant Professor at the South Asian University, a collaboration of SAARC countries, New Delhi. Her teaching interests include International Environmental Law and Conflict of Laws. She has been nominated for the Nehru Fulbright Academic Fellowship 2018-2019. She has published an edited collection on private international law practices of South Asian States published by Springer 2017. She has undertaken projects and consultancy with organizations including Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, European Union etc. She was awarded an educational grant on Civil Society Law from ICNL and USAID. Her publications include articles in the International Journal of Family law, and Policy (Oxford), European-Asian Journal of Law and Governance, International Journal of Public Law and Policy, and ISIL Year Book on International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law etc .She has been part of the editorial board of peer-reviewed journals, including Indian Journal of Human Rights, the International Journal of Bioethics and the NUJS International Journal of Legal Studies and Research. Dr. Stellina has been acting as Resource Person and External Reviewer for the Ministry of La, Government of India sponsored Research Project on Judicial Reforms since June 2016 in the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur-India. She has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), and the NLU Delhi.

Research interests:

I am a researcher in the space of International Environmental Law, in the sub-domain of environmental governance, role of judiciary in environment protection and intersectionalities of water climate change and disaster. I work on these areas at international level, and in South Asia and India. My publications in these areas include, a monograph dealing with legal and policy response to climate refugees in South Asia (in Press) I have published on transboundary water sharing and right to water, biodiversity protection, and disaster management.

As a student of Private International Law, I work on the evolving and expanding space of cross border family interactions and issues concerning cross border transactions. My work in these areas includes an edited volume on Private International Law and State Practices in South Asia. The book addresses diverse and crucial issues affecting South Asian Private International Law with a view to bringing this subject to the center-stage of private international discourse globally as well as within the South Asian region. I wish to produce aspiring, multidisciplinary and forward research on International Environmental Law and Private International Law

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Soo-hyun Lee

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Soo-hyun Lee is a Research Associate at The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, where he works on issues of global governance, specifically in relation to international law and economics. Formerly, he worked on matters of trade and investment at the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and was an Investment Law and Policy Fellow at the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI). He began his doctorate at Hughes Hall, the University of Cambridge, and is writing his dissertation on the law and economics of proportionality of general regulatory measures in relation to public interests, legitimate objectives and significant contribution. His postgraduate training in law and economics spans the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United Nations University and University of Tokyo. His expertise areas include international law and economics, specifically in international trade and investment, economic policy and inclusive and sustainable development. He publishes regularly for speciality and expertise outlets, both peer-refereed and in-house. He can be reached at soohyun.lee [at] protonmail [dot] com.

Research interests:

International economic law (trade and investment)
International trade and investment
Trade and investment facilitation
Law and development
Law and economics
Economic policy
Development economics
Sustainable development
Inclusive growth
Development finance
International dispute settlement
Investor-State dispute settlement
World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body

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Christoph Antons

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I am Professor of Law, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle, Australia; Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich; Senior Fellow, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn; Senior Associate, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, University of Melbourne. After studying law, Southeast Asian Studies and Art History in Germany, I wrote my PhD at the University of Amsterdam on Indonesian intellectual property law. I have held academic positions at University of Wollongong (2003-2011) and Deakin University (2011-2016). I was Director of the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific and the ARC Key Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at the University of Wollongong and of the Centre for Southeast Asian Law at Charles Darwin University. My publications on law & society and law & development in Asia include ‘Law and Society in East Asia’ (Ashgate 2013, with Roman Tomasic); and the ‘Routledge Handbook of Asian Law’ (Routledge 2017).

Research interests:

My current research focuses on three Australian Research Council funded projects. ‘Intangible cultural heritage across borders: laws, structures and strategies in China and its ASEAN Neighbours’, a collaboration with researchers at Deakin University, Murdoch University and La Trobe University, examines how different terminologies and interpretations of ‘rights’ under international conventions have underpinned cross-border conflicts about cultural and intellectual property claimed by neighbouring countries and communities for tourism and development purposes. ‘Building an intellectual property system: The Indonesian experience’ shows the introduction and operation of intellectual property in Indonesia as a typical example for middle income developing countries and newcomers to the intellectual property system. It aims to show the bargaining processes about the future of the system between the government and foreign investors as well as citizens and between different institutions. ‘Food security and the governance of local knowledge in India and Indonesia’, a collaboration with researchers at the University of Western Australia, University of London, University of Indonesia and Monash University, examines the way small farmers identify, conserve and exchange useful plant material and incorporate it into cultivated crops through plant selection and breeding under conditions of climate change and the ways regulatory structures help or hinder this process.

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Maryna Rabinovych

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Maryna Rabinovych is a Ph.D. candidate at Odessa National University (in cooperation with the University of Hamburg), Community Outreach Manager at the Ukraine Democracy Initiative (University of Sydney), and a Fellow of the Association4U project. In 2016–2017 and 2018 Ms. Rabinovych held visiting positions at the University of Thessaloniki and the University of Vienna, respectively. She was also an expert for the GIZ program “Migration for Development.” Her expertise is in European external relations law, law and development, and the EU-Ukraine integration process.

Research interests:

EU external relations law; EU’s implementation of SDGs; EU’s development policy; policy coherence for development; EU’s promotion of fundamental values; EU Neighbourhood Policy; law and development; development cooperation strategies; EU-Ukraine relationships; transition studies; Ukraine’s constitutional law; decentralization and local self-government in Ukraine.

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Michelle du Toit

Research interests:

health rights, health care systems and socio-economic rights

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Likim Ng

Biography:

Likim is a PhD candidate and Tutor at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, teaching in the areas of legal theory, critical legal theory and human rights law. Her research is supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program. She obtained a Masters in International and Comparative Law at the University of Helsinki where her thesis was accepted with Exceptional Praise (2013).

Prior to commencing at the Australian National University, Likim worked as a Judge’s Associate at the Federal Circuit Court of Australia assisting Judge Street and Judge Driver to judicially review protection visa matters. She also has practical experience in the field at the Refugee Advisory & Casework Service where she was involved in organising legal advice clinics.

Previously, she has worked as a legal intern in international criminal law at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague. Her primary research area focuses on critical legal theory approaches to refugee law, particularly the intersection between refugee law and international criminal law namely the Exclusion Clause of the Refugee Convention.

Research interests:

Critical legal theory approaches to Refugee Law, particularly Law and Cultural Difference.

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Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima

Biography:

Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima is a doctoral researcher and part-time tutor at Durham Law School (UK). She has been awarded a Durham Law School Studentship to pursue her doctoral studies at Durham. She is also a Modern Law Review scholar. Karina holds an MA in International Affairs from the Latin American School of Social Sciences, and LLB and BA first-class honours degrees from the University of Buenos Aires, also recognised in Brazil by the Federal University of Ouro Preto. She is a member of the Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law (ICCL) at Durham Law School.

Research interests:

Karina’s research interests lie in the ways through which legal institutions shape the world, especially under a distributive and developmental perspective. Broadly speaking, she is interested in the fields of Law & Economics, Law & Development, International Law and Legal Theory.

Karina’s doctoral research aims to contribute to advancing an international law on sovereign insolvency through multiple theoretical perspectives. Drawing on the scholarship traditions of Law & Economics, Law & Development, and normative moral theories of international law and institutions, her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to analyse the problem of sovereign bankruptcy through economic, political economy, developmental, and philosophic perspectives. It looks at the different avenues through which law interacts with other related subjects on sovereign insolvency, conceiving it as a phenomenon that involves cross-cutting complexities. It aims to demonstrate that the problem of sovereign insolvency poses challenges to international law which cannot be properly dealt with under purely transactional approaches.

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Jennifer Lander

Biography:

I received my PhD from the University of Warwick in 2017. My thesis examined the constitutional and democratic implications of integration in the global mining economy for the Mongolian state. Prior to joining Leicester De Montfort Law School, I held an Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study and taught part-time at Warwick Law School.

Research interests:

I am primarily interested in the governance of the global economy, particularly the way that different actors enable and resist global integration, and the role of law in structuring contemporary forms of economic and political change. These intellectual interests are fuelled by an underlying concern for the democratisation of power and resources in an increasingly integrated world.

My current research focuses on the influence of transnational legal norms on mining governance regimes in frontier economies, specifically Mongolia and Kenya. I am particularly curious about the way that interactions with transnational law vis-à-vis non-state actors (e.g. corporations, NGOs and investment banks) are transforming local governance spaces.

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Bishnu Raj Upreti

Biography:

Having a Master in Sociology (from Nepal), M.Sc. in Management of Knowledge Systems & PhD in Conflict Management (1998-2000) from the Wageningen University the Netherland, I did PostDoc (2001-2003) from the University of London (King’s College)/Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Surrey, UK. In 37 years of experience (in the field of development from 1980 to 1996 and in research from 1996 to date), I have gained wider experiences from local to international levels. I served as South Asia Coordinator of a global research programme called National Centre of Competence in Research North-South and Senior Researcher focusing to conflict, peace and unconventional security (water, food, health, environmental security); governance and state building; and north-south partnership. Currently working as Research Director at Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research and teaching and supervising PhD and masters students at Kathmandu University, and Agriculture and Forestry University. I have published 49 books (written and co-edited), about 500 articles (in journals, books, proceedings and newspapers). I am member of Board of Trustees of International Foundation for Science (2014-2021), Member of Advisory Board of Centre for Unconventional Security Affairs, of University of California, Irvine (2009 to date).

Research interests:

My main interests and engagement in research are: conflict sensitive development, land- water-forest conflict, environmental conflict, public policies, linking research and policies, human security, migration and mobility, climate security, role of business sector in peace promotion, state building, food & water security , agrarian transformation. All my research work is related to public policy and qualitative orientation.

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Emmanuel De Groof

Biography:

Dr. Emmanuel De Groof is an international lawyer and constitutional expert (Ph.D EUI, ’16; LL.M ULB ’08; Master law KUL ’06; Candidate philosophy KUL ‘05) with experience as academic and practitioner.

An expert on state transformation in fragile and conflict-affected countries, Dr. De Groof holds a Ph.D on the role of international law for transitional governance. During his doctoral research at the European University Institute (EUI), he was invited as a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at the NYU Law School. After the thesis defence, he worked in the cabinet of the EUI Secretary-General and then as the Scientific Coordinator of The State of the Union, the annual conference-summit on EU in the world organised by the EUI.

Before his doctoral studies, Dr. De Groof worked as a lawyer at the Brussels Bar, a Law Clerk for Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court (’08) and as a Bernheim Laureate for the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Currently, Dr. De Groof is working as a Policy Officer at the European Centre for Development Policy Management, while remaining active in academia.

Research interests:

Dr. De Groof is interested in transitional governance in fragile and conflict-affected countries. His expertise is furthermore in EU external relations, comparative constitutional law, constitutional geopolitics, and international development / civilian crisis management. He has published on R2P, transitional governance, and EU external relations.

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Anna-Liisa Heusala

Biography:

I am a political scientist with a doctoral degree from the University of Helsinki, 2005. I first came to the Aleksanteri Institute in 1998, but I have also worked in the Police University College and the Ministry of Justice. I have been an appointed University Lecturer in the University of Helsinki since 2017 and hold the position of Adjunct Professor (docent) in the Finnish National Defence University. I teach on the new Master’s Programme in Russian Studies in the University of Helsinki.

Since 2017, I have been the principal investigator in the KONE Foundation funded Project Migration, Shadow Economy and Parallel Legal Orders in Russia. During my career, I have carried out several commissioned projects for offices of the Finnish Government, including the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministries of Justice, Internal Affairs and Defence. I have collaborated with the Police, the Customs and the Finnish Border Guard.

Research interests: I am interested in the connections between security policy, organizations and societal change in Russia and Eurasia. My topics have included transitions of administrative culture, cross-border crime prevention and border security. Currently, I focus on job-related migration from Central-Asia, legal integration of migrants, and the effects of shadow economy on the development of the rule-of-law in Russia. My latest publications include Heusala, A-L & Aitamurto, K (Eds.), Migrant Workers in Russia – Global Challenges of the Shadow Economy in Societal Transformation, Routledge, 2017.

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Paul Stacey

Biography:

Investigation of relationships between policy designs and ideas, and practices and realities. The last ten years I have analyzing significant undercurrents of formal political development and planning, and their impacts on marginalized groups in developing countries. I have substantial field work experience from the Global south in both rural and urban settings, and an expanding set of publications in world leading social science journals.

Ongoing projects: Informal governance in Ghana’s largest slum, Old Fadama in Accra, and climate change related strategies, and local developments, in Kenya. Research topics include the governance of natural resources, local government reform and democratization, urban planning, the regulation of small scale mining, contests over political authority, long term processes of exclusion. My PhD analyses disputes over natural resources in Northern Ghana and questions the ability of political decentralization to solve historical struggles over authority and land.

Country experiences: Ghana, Kenya, Thailand, Vietnam

Research interests:

Legal pluralism, contests over land and property, identity and citizenship, institutions of political authority, including the use of customary and traditional narratives.

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Cristina Poncibò

Biography:

Cristina Poncibò is Professor of Comparative Law at the Department of Law of the University of Turin (Italy). She is also a member of the Turin School of Development at the Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO, UN).

Cristina holds a JD in Comparative Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Turin, 110/110 magna cum laude and honourable mention. She has also obtained a PhD in Comparative Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Florence, with a dissertation discussing the protection of collective interests in Comparative Law. An Italian leading editor has published the thesis as a monograph in 2011 with the title: ‘Models of protection of the collective interests in Comparative Law’.

In her career, Cristina has obtained the following prestigious international fellowships: a two-year ‘IEF-Marie Curie Fellowship’ of the European Commission at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), a one-year ‘Max Weber Fellowship’ of the European University Institute, and a two-year ‘Lagrange Fellowship’ with a research project with McGill University.
At present, Cristina is taking part in various international and European research projects focusing on Comparative Law and Comparative Law & Development.

Research interests:

Comparative Law & Development
Private Law & Development (Property, Contracts, Inheritance)
International Legal Technical Assistance (STE Legal Expert)
Areas of principal interest: Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Western Balkans, CIS

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Talia Vela-Eiden

Biography:

I have been working as a researcher on development issues since 1993, having extensive experience on the ground in urban and rural settings, and in complex, remote and hazardous places. For many years, I worked in international interdisciplinary teams in Peru (all over the country), Ecuador (Quito), The Netherlands (The Hague), Germany (Bonn), Ethiopia (all over the country, especially at the border with South Sudan and Kenya), and Kenya (Nairobi, the Rift Valley and the border with Ethiopia). My research and work focus were, among others, the role of international NGOs and networks in international development and environment global governance, and the relationships with state actors and international organizations. Another important research focus was the participation and empowerment of civil society actors in national and international developmental processes, including conflict resolution.

I have a BA in Law and the Professional Title of Lawyer (Abogado) by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; a MA in Development Studies by the International Institute of Development Studies (ISS), now part of Erasmus University Rotterdam; and, a DrPhil in Political Science by the University of Bonn, Germany, with a dissertation written at the Centre for Development Research, ZEF Bonn.

Research interests:

Theories of development. Critical development studies. Alternative development. Theories of power. Empowerment and participation. Social movements and popular mobilization. Post- and De-colonialism. Indigenous communities and human rights. Extractive industries.

My particular research interest is indigenous communities in Peru affected by extractive industries, especially in relation to human rights, land rights, and environmental rights. At present, I am focusing in the possibilities for empowerment, using as theoretical framework Lukes’ power analysis embedded in Sen and Nussbaum’s Human Development and Capabilities Approach.

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Angela Daniel Ifunya

Biography:

Angela Daniel Ifunya, Founder and Project Manager Cum Researcher for Protect Children’s Rights Trust, Tanzanian NGO, Dar es salaam (for 14 years). Also before joining the NGO sector, worked for about 20 years as a magistrate in different capacities with Tanzania Judiciary.
Angela hold a MA in Social Science Research Methods from Sheffield Hallam
University, United Kingdom; Diploma in Gender Issues in Development,
Kivukoni Academy of Social Sciences, Tanzania; Diploma in Law, Institute of Development Management, Mzumbe, Tanzania. Attended Research Partnership Program at DIH, Copenhagen, Denmark; child rights, participation and Gender course, at CDS, Wales University, Swansea, UK and Child rights course (CRC1),Tanzania. Participated in Council of International Fellowship (CIF) in Finland, for professional exchange program for social workers and professionals in human related professions.

Angela has considerable practical experience in social science research
methods which she has used independently or in a team in conducting eight
baseline studies and 9 mid-term and final evaluation of projects. Studies
are on the rights of children focusing on the implementation of UN
Convention on the rights of child of vulnerable children/young people in
rural and urban communities, Tanzania, such as victimization i.e. child
marriage, child labour, policy evaluation, juvenile justice processes,
gender.

Research interests:

My research interest is in international children’s
rights with a particular focus on the implementation of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. My research has based on the rights of the child of
vulnerable children and young people from poor urban and rural communities. Further interests: juvenile rights, human rights, education rights, children’s rights, gender and to participate in decision-making.

My research focuses on particularly children and young people victimization such as: child sexual abuse, child marriage, child labour, gender discrimination, domestic violence, violence against children, policy evaluation and juvenile justice system process (exploring fair procedures: procedural justice and the aim of punishment).

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Ajla Skrbic

Biography:

I hold a PhD in law. I am an Assistant Professor at the International and Public Law departments at the University of Travnik Faculty of Law. I am also the Vice Dean for Scientific Research and Development at the same Faculty.

In 2017 I have been awarded with the Danubius Young Scientist Award 2017 for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2017 I have also been granted the United Nations International Law Fellowship. I am a certified lecturer for the The Civil Service Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for International Law topics.

I have ten years of experience teaching and researching the area of International and Public Law. I have published numerous articles in these fields around the world, and participated in numerous international scientific conferences, seminars, round tables, and schools. In some of them I was in the organizing or science committee.
I am a member of Editorial and/or Review Boards of the several scientific law papers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad.

Research interests:

– International Law
– Rule of Law
– Immunity (of States, International Organizations etc.)
– International Humanitarian Law
– International Criminal Law
– Transitional Justice
– Connections between Law and Social Justice
– The acceptance of International Law by the national institutions

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Tefera Dagnachew

Biography:

Born and raised in Ethiopia. I have received my bachelor degree in law and master’s degree in Business Law from Hawassa University and Addis Ababa University. I was working as a graduate assistant, assistant lecturer and lecturer of law in two public universities (Jigjiga University and Deber Markos University) from 2005 – 2017. I was also active in research and community services. The areas on which I conducted research include, Ethiopia’s accession to WTO, Bio-piracy and the Case of ‘Teff’ of Ethiopia, Expropriation- the law and the practice and Impact of Usury. I have also delivered legal advice and representation at the court free of charge for vulnerable groups through the Free Legal Aid Center of the Universities.
Currently, I am a student of Erasmus Mundus Joint European Masters in Comparative Local Development program organized by the consortium of Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Regensburg (Germany) and University of Trento (Italy).

Research interests:

In countries like Ethiopia, poor country with emerging economy, impending and poorly designed regulations plays a negative role in slowing its economic development and poverty alleviation. Hence, I am more interested to conduct research on the impact of legislation on development, specifically on local development, Regulatory impact assessment and other relevant topics law and development. This is one of the reasons why I decided to be enrolled in the Erasmus Mundus Joint European Masters in Comparative Local Development program, to add the necessary knowledge and skill on local development issues on top my law background.

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Nadia Latif

Biography:

Nadia Latif received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University in 2010. Her current research focuses on Palestinian camp refugees’ generational experiences of forced displacement in Lebanon. She provides pro bono services to international and national, development and humanitarian aid organizations, as well as expert scholarly testimony for refugee asylum cases from the Middle East.

Research interests:

Forced migration. Development. Humanitarian Aid. The history of international human rights law. Social media and data justice.

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Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama

Biography:

Dr. Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama is Associate Professor of Tax Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands. In 2007, Irma Mosquera obtained her PhD (cum laude) at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has been recently awarded a prestigious ERC starting grant to carry out research from 2018-2022 on a New Model of Global Governance in International Tax Law Making (GLOBTAXGOV). She will be investigating the implementation of BEPS Minimum Standards in 12 countries in the African, Latin American, European and Asian region.

Research interests:

In my research, I began with comparison of tax law systems within Latin America. Thereafter, I carried out comparative law research in tax and investment policies in Colombia, Surinam and Chile and in countries of the Sub-Saharan African Region. I have also carried out comparative studies and interdisciplinary analysis of current problems from a tax, investment and trade perspective in order to find common solutions. This knowledge has also allowed me to share experiences among disciplines, for instance on the fragmentation and lack of commitment by countries to regional and multilateral initiatives and on the legitimacy of international tax, investment and trade negotiations.

More recently, my current ERC research project GLOBTAXGOV will analyse the legal transplant of the BEPS four minimum standards in light of the differences in tax systems and tax cultures. This follows the line of research in my PhD. My research project will also analyse the legitimacy and feasibility of the OECD-BEPS project and the EU initiatives in respect of OECD/ EU countries vs. non-OECD/ non-EU countries. This follows my recent work on the legitimacy of the OECD multilateral initiatives in exchange of information and of the BEPS Project

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Jeannette Rodgers

Biography:

LLM International Law: Crime, Justice and Human Rights (with Distinction), University of Birmingham, 2015-2016
In the process of editing for publication: ‘Parallel intentions, contemporary disparities: the prohibition of the use of force in conventional and customary international law.’ B.S.L. Rev. 2016, 1(1), 22-33.

My PhD thesis builds on my LLM dissertation, entitled: ‘The rights of children in post-conflict societies as viewed through the lens of child soldiers: a new framework for international law.’ My research on the rights of child soldiers in Uganda and Colombia highlighted the importance of contextual and identity-based factors in understanding why children become involved in conflict, and how these factors impact reintegration into their communities. My research highlighted a gap in contemporary scholarship, specifically a lack of research and evidence on how transitional justice can enable children to heal community division after war. The proposed project aims to address this gap by providing an evidence base and a framework for improving children’s participation in transitional justice, securing their right to be heard and fulfilling their potential as agents of change within their communities.

My work is funded by the AHRC Midlands3Cities DTP.

Research interests:

International Human Rights Law
Children’s Rights – protection, advocacy, education; nationally, internationally and globally, but particularly in post-conflict situations
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its Additional Protocols and related UN official documents
Special Protection of children in International Humanitarian Law and the work of the ICRC
Transitional Justice – the potential for child participation, truth telling and social change
The links between child rights, human development and international law
The role of music in creating safe-spaces for children to relay their experiences of conflict, and its consequent role in peace-making and reconciliation
Music in social protest and activism, particularly for young people
‘Art-as-storytelling’ for children to document experiences of war and combat trauma

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Adriaan Bedner

Biography:

Adriaan Bedner’s research has a particular focus on access to justice, dispute resolution and the judiciary. This has led to publications on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from administrative courts and environmental litigation to human rights promotion in marriage law regimes and Indonesian legal education.

Adriaan Bedner has done work of a more theoretical and comparative nature on rule of law and access to justice. He has been project leader and/or steering board member of several research projects in Indonesia sponsored by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, The Dutch Research Council and the Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs. At present he is in charge of the research involved in the co-operation between the Dutch and the Indonesian ombudsman, as well as the research component of a co-operation project between the Indonesian and the Dutch supreme court. He has supervised numerous PhD-students and has taught courses at Leiden Law School and Leiden University College.

Furthermore, he has been involved in extra-curricular teaching within the framework of the Indonesian-Netherlands’ legal co-operation programmes.

Research interests:

Legal reasoning & legal education
Indonesian land law
Family law
Indonesian law & society genral
Rule of law & access to justice

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Celine Tan

Biography:

Celine Tan is Associate Professor of Law. She is also the Director of the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) based at Warwick Law School. She joined Warwick Law School in September 2011 from the University of Birmingham where she was Lecturer in Law from 2008 – 2011. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick where she held a Postgraduate Research Fellowship from 2002 – 2005.

Prior to Birmingham, Celine taught law at Warwick and was also a consultant researcher with the Third World Network, a research and advocacy organisation based in Malaysia and Switzerland. She has also worked with international organisations and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Europe, Africa and Asia on issues relating to social and economic development and human rights. Her research centres on exploring aspects of international economic law and regulation with a focus on international development financing law, policy and governance. She is also interested in the intersections between law and development, gender, human rights and the environment. Celine has published on issues relating to the law and governance of the international financial architecture, sovereign debt, climate change and sustainable development, the role of international financial institutions and human rights.

Research interests:

Dr Celine Tan’s research centres on exploring aspects of international economic law and regulation with a focus on international development financing law, policy and governance. She is also interested in the intersections between law and development, gender, human rights and the environment. Celine has published on issues relating to the law and governance of the international financial architecture, sovereign debt, climate change and sustainable development, the role of international financial institutions and human rights.

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Deborah Casalin

Deborah Casalin is the editor of lawdev.org. She is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Antwerp Faculty of Law, in the Law and Development Research Group. She previously worked in the humanitarian and development sectors. She holds an LLM from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and an LLB from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa).

Her research focuses on the role of international and regional (quasi-)judicial human rights mechanisms in ensuring reparation for arbitrary displacement. She has published on conflict-driven displacement, the relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights, and the participation of States and other actors in international fora.

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Carolien Jacobs

Biography:

Assistant Professor at the Van Vollenhoven Institute with a background in International Development (MSc, Wageningen University) and in Legal Anthropology (PhD Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/Wageningen University).

Research interests:

I am interested in interdisciplinary research. My research interests are in the fields of law, governance and international development, especially in Africa and in conflict-affected countries. I acquired most of my research experience in Africa, where I studied the role of religion in disputes and dispute resolution (Mozambique), and carried out an evaluation on the impact of Dutch development aid on Congolese NGOs and civil society development. Since 2014 I carry out research on access to justice for internally displaced persons in the conflict-affected east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Siobhan Airey

Biography:

I am finishing my doctorate in law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and have just commenced a Marie Curie Fellowship at University College Dublin, and Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. My research examines the legal nature of the international governance of public international development finance. My doctoral research focused on the international governance of ODA and my current research is drawing from financialisation theory and legal theory to examine the governance of Blended Finance instruments utilised under the rubric of the UN’s SDGs policy framework.

Research interests:

Legal theory; law and development; international governance and international organisations, and research methodologies. My research is mainly critical/heterodox in approach and I draw from ideas in critical theory, legal philosophy as well as political economy.

Koen De Feyter

Professor Koen De Feyter is the Chair of International Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), Faculty of Law – Law and Development Research Group. He is a member of the executive committee of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRn).

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