Proposals and expressions of interest are due on 9 March 2020 for the LDRN 5th annual conference – don’t miss out!
Visit the conference website for more information, and/or to submit your abstract or panel proposal. A limited number of travel stipends are available.
The LDRN 5th Annual Conference – “Challenges for Law and Development: Responses” will be hosted at Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 21 – 23 September 2020.
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My academic journey consists of a considerable dedication towards writing papers and getting selected to present my papers in prestigious institutions
such as IIT Madras, NLSIU Bangalore and NLU Delhi.
DR. SOHINI MAHAPATRA completed her B.A.LL.B. from Amity Law School, Amity University, NOIDA, in 2012, where she was awarded Merit Scholarship by Amity University for Academic Performance (2010¬-11 and 2009¬-10). She started her teaching career in the year 2015. Along with paper presentations at national and international conferences, she has several articles and book chapters to her credit in her areas of specialization, which are Animal Welfare Law, Labour Law and Media Law. Dr. Mahapatra has also authored two books – ‘Non-Human Animals and the Law: An Analysis of Animal Welfare and Animal Rights Within the Indian Legal Discourse’ by Thomson Reuters (2020) and ‘Media Law in India: Freedom, Evolution and Contemporary Issues’ by LexisNexis (2023). She is also one of the editors for the book ‘Animal and Environmental Jurisprudence: A Wildlife Perspective’ by Satyam Law International (2020).
Research interests: Animal Welfare Law, Media Law, Labour Law.
Website: https://www.nluo.ac.in/faculty/mahapatra-sohini-ms/
Manvitha BS is pursuing a BA LLB Hons at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law. She is a legal research assistant under Devaang Salva, an LLM graduate from the University of Oxford. She has interned under Shri Pravin Parekh, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India (Padma Shri Award Recipient).
Research interests: Manvitha is interested in emerging human rights and environment issues. Manvitha is inclined to International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and is deeply interested in human rights, recognizing them as a fundamental cornerstone of a just and equitable society. Manvitha is committed to advocating for human rights, striving to raise awareness, and actively participate in initiatives and actions that contribute to the advancement and preservation of these fundamental principles.
I had my first degree in Law at the University of Ibadan. My master’s degree was also in Law, specifically Business and Insurance from University of Ibadan. I was called to the Nigeria Bar in 2008. I have been in active legal practice since I was called to the bar. I practiced and started my lecturing career at the Faculty of Law, Afe Babalola University, Ekiti State Nigeria. I rose through the ranks to become a senior lecturer. I was a part-time lecturer at the National Open University of Nigeria and at the Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti satellite campus. I taught both undergraduate and postgraduate program. I taught modules in corporate governance, Business, Contract, Human rights, disability Rights, Conflict of Laws and Family Law. My Ph.D. is in Disability Right, Inclusion and Equality. I am at the verge of completing a second PhD. in Corporate Governance at the Faculty of Law University of Cape Town South Africa. I teach business at the Global Banking School Leeds.
Marius Pieterse is a professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he teaches urban and local government law, constitutional law and human rights law. His research focuses on urban governance, local government law and the realisation of socio-economic rights in an urban context.
Marius holds a B2 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. He is the author of “Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa: The right to Joburg” (Routledge, 2017); “Can Rights Cure? The Impact of Human Rights Litigation on South Africa’s Health System” (PULP, 2014) as well as a large number of peer reviewed academic journal articles on different aspects of rights-based litigation, socio-economic rights, urban governance, the right to health, the right to equality and the relationship between law and urban space.
In 2022 Marius was an individual fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, pursuing research on strategic uses of human rights law in and by African cities. He is joint global coordinator of the International Research Group of Law and Urban Space (IRGLUS).
Research interests: Urban governance; urban development, socio-economic rights
Website: www.mariuspieterse.com
Héctor Herrera is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, Institute of Development Policy (IOB). Herrera is a lawyer from Colombia who studied at the University of the Andes in Colombia. Herrera holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the National University of Colombia. Herrera has experience in environmental justice, law, and policy. He has conducted research on environmental justice, climate justice, and climate finance.
Research interests: climate justice and climate finance.
Janet Jebichii Sego is a PhD Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law. She is a member of Law and Development Research Group. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Her master’s thesis focused on national legislation on the protection of internally displaced persons in the East Africa Community (EAC) with Kenya and South Sudan as case studies.
Janet is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya (2020) and she has previously practiced as a Principal Associate at Mahida & Maina Company Advocates, Kenya across civil litigation, commercial & bank securitization and conveyancing departments.
Research interests:
Her PhD research is in the field of economic law, sustainable development and international law with focus on the role of bilateral Development Financing Institutions (DFIs) in prevention of development induced displacements in the Global South. Her research analyzes select DFIs’ financed large scale development projects in the Sub-Saharan Africa as case studies.
Biography: Mr. Mohan Kumar Karna, LL.M. from Tribhuvan University, Nepal is currently an assistant professor of International Law at Tribhuvan University. He has worked for more than 12 years in the field of rule of law, human rights and peace building in various national and international organisations including the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal.
Research interests: Problem of Denial of Citizenship in Nepal, Federalism, Judicial Reform, Extra Judicial Killings and State Response in Nepal.
Summary: Property law and law of succession expert. Lecturer in the Department of Private Law (University of Dar es Salaam School of Law) and advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. Attended the 2017 law and development conference.
Biography: Dr. Laurean Mussa holds a PhD, LLM and LLB from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was employed as a Tutorial Assistant in the then Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law (now University of Dar es Salaam School of Law) in February 2008 and promoted to the ranks of Assistant Lecturer in July 2009 and Lecturer in November 2016. Currently, Dr. Mussa serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Private Law. He teaches Land Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Procedure and the Law of Succession and Trusts. He has published and carried out several consultancies as a team member or lead consultant nationally and internationally. He has also acted as a facilitator in workshops on land use planning and natural resources law. Dr. Mussa is also a member of the Tanganyika Law Society and the World Commission on Environmental Law (2016- 2020).
Research interests: Property law and law of succession, land use planning and natural resources law, urban land use, environmental law, cybercrime,..
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Dr. Pallavi Kishore is a 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.
Biography:
My name is Kinkino Kia Legide. I am currently a lecturer at Hawassa University School of Law, Ethiopia. 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. Another key research interest is on the nexus between law, violent conflict, and development.
Biography: Integrated 5 years course of B.A., LL.B. and completed in 2008 from New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed) University, Pune, Maharashtra. He pursued an LL.M. with specialisation in International Law from L.M.S. Law College under Manipur University (Central University), India and was awarded the degree in 2011. In 2012, he undertook an M.Phil. programme in Public International Law from the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi and was awarded the degree in 2015. In 2016, he registered for a Ph.D. programme in the Department of Law, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India and recently submitted his thesis on 4th March, 2022.
Research interests: Right of peoples to self-determination, right to development, permanent sovereignty over natural resources, international law of occupation, international law on the use of force, protection of indigenous peoples under free trade regimes or regional trade agreements, interaction between international human rights and humanitarian laws, IPR and its socio-economic impact on indigenous populations, legitimacy of States, role of UN GA and Security Council in the maintenance of international peace & security, role of ICJ in the development of international jurisprudence, …
Biography: Dr Arthur van Coller is an associate professor in the Nelson R Mandela School of Law, University of Fort hare in South Africa. He is an admitted attorney and specializes in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law.
Research Interests: His research interests are International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Human Rights, Legal Education.
Dr. Ajla Škrbić is an Associate Professor of Public and International law from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She joined the Department of Law at the Freie Universität Berlin as a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) in 2021. In recognition of her scientific achievements, she received the Danubius Young Scientist Award 2017 for BiH and the United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme in 2017.
She is a certified lecturer for the Civil Service Agency of BiH for international law, an official educator of judges and prosecutors in the Federation of BiH, and an expert representative of the academic community at the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance in BiH. She is also a reviewer of the National Entity for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Republic of Serbia, as well as Project Peer Reviewer of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.
Dr. Škrbić has experience working in civil society as well. She is a researcher at the citizens’ association “Zašto ne”, which is one of the most prominent Bosnian NGOs that promotes civic activism, government accountability, and the use of technology and digital media in deepening democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr. Škrbić has published more than 30 articles, 2 monographs and one edited volume. She researches and publishes mostly on the transformation of post-Yugoslav states in the aftermath of the wars in the 1990s and current challenges these states face in the context of international law and EU integration.
Biography:
With a background in Educational Management, I wear many hats as a mentor, journalist, researcher, travel consultant and teacher. I am a researcher and PhD scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where I facilitate and mark modules in Human Rights, social justice and Diversity. I also work closely with vulnerable migrants (undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees) at the Dennis Hurley Centre, Durban, South Africa where I teach computer skills and information literacy.
Research interests:
My broad research interests revolve around international students and their experiences with host country immigration with a linkage between sustainable development practices, vulnerable migrants (undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees) and migration policies in South Africa.
I am interested in the relationship between SDGs, migrants irrespective of their migration status (undocumented migrants, international students, asylum seekers and refugees) and South African law as it relates to the human rights of children of asylum seekers.
Biography:
Azubike holds an LLD from the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria and is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Ilorin. Azubike is the author of “Development and The Right to Education in Africa”. He is interested in the development of education law and how it impacts children, people with disabilities and minorities.
Research interests:
Education law and Policy, Girl children and Gender studies, Minority rights and the rights of people with disabilities.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Presently, I am pursuing PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Research interests:
Comparative Constitutional Law and Intellectual Property Rights.
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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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.
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Professor Botero’s academic publications focus on rule of law, access to justice, labor regulation, and comparative law.
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 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
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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).
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 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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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 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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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 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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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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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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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.
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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