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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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Biography: 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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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

Siobhan Airey

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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.

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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.

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

Biography: 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.

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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

Biography: 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 Griffith University (1992-3), La Trobe University (1994-9), Charles Darwin University (1999-2003), 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 Development in East and Southeast Asia’ (Routledge 2003); ‘Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia since the Crisis’ (Hart 2007, with Volkmar Gessner); ‘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

Biography: 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

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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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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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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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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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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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Celine Tan

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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Lorem Ipsum

Wat is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is slechts een proeftekst uit het drukkerij- en zetterijwezen. Lorem Ipsum is de standaard proeftekst in deze bedrijfstak sinds de 16e eeuw, toen een onbekende drukker een zethaak met letters nam en ze door elkaar husselde om een font-catalogus te maken. Het heeft niet alleen vijf eeuwen overleefd maar is ook, vrijwel onveranderd, overgenomen in elektronische letterzetting. Het is in de jaren ’60 populair geworden met de introductie van Letraset vellen met Lorem Ipsum passages en meer recentelijk door desktop publishing software zoals Aldus PageMaker die versies van Lorem Ipsum bevatten.

Waarom gebruiken we het?

Het is al geruime tijd een bekend gegeven dat een lezer, tijdens het bekijken van de layout van een pagina, afgeleid wordt door de tekstuele inhoud. Het belangrijke punt van het gebruik van Lorem Ipsum is dat het uit een min of meer normale verdeling van letters bestaat, in tegenstelling tot “Hier uw tekst, hier uw tekst” wat het tot min of meer leesbaar nederlands maakt. Veel desktop publishing pakketten en web pagina editors gebruiken tegenwoordig Lorem Ipsum als hun standaard model tekst, en een zoekopdracht naar “lorem ipsum” ontsluit veel websites die nog in aanbouw zijn. Verscheidene versies hebben zich ontwikkeld in de loop van de jaren, soms per ongeluk soms expres (ingevoegde humor en dergelijke).

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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