Professor Andrew Lang joined the Edinburgh School of Law in 2017 as the Chair of International Law and Global Governace. He is an expert in Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law. He has a combined BA/LLB from the University of Sydney, and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge. From 2004-6, Professor Lang was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, before teaching at the London School of Economics from 2006 until 2017. He is a co-founder, with Colin Picker, of the Society of International Economic Law. He sits on the Editorial Committee of the Modern Law Review, the Editorial Boards of the London Review of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law, and has been a Book Review Editor for the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. In 2012-13, he was awarded a British Academy mid-Career Fellowship. Professor Lang has taught on Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy, the University Melbourne LLM program, the World Trade Institute’s Masters of International Law and Economics (MILE) program, the University of Barcelona’s IELPO course, as well as the IIEM Academy of International Trade Law in Macau. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Visiting Faculty at the University of Michigan, and an International Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Professor Lang has consulted for the European Parliament, writing two reports on the treatment of financial services in EU free trade agreements, and in the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). He has also worked as part of a team conducting a Sustainability Impact Assessment for two prospective FTAs between the EU and partner countries. His current research thematically focussed on a number of themes around global economic governance, including the relationship between law and expert knowledge, theoretical international law and economics, and sociological approaches to the study of international economic law. He is co-authoring a commentary on the WTO’s Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, and has ongoing projects relating to the treatment of subsidies in WTO law, the WTO implications of Brexit, and the SPS agreement.
Arm Tungnirun was a 2017-2018 Residential Fellow at the IGLP, recently received his PhD from Stanford Law School, and is a lecturer of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He uses qualitative methods and interdisciplinary materials to examine issues of comparative legal cultures, business legal practices in emerging economies, and the relationship between law and economic development. He received his LL.B. from Peking University, Beijing, China, LL.M. in International Economic Law from Harvard Law School, and J.S.M. in Law and Society from Stanford Law School. He is fluent in three languages, and enjoys thinking across the borders of countries, legal traditions, and academic disciplines. For his research, he conducts fieldwork and in-depth interviews to critically explore the emergence of transnational corporate lawyers and their practices in Myanmar, while taking into account comparative perspectives from past scholarship on the globalization of law and the development of the corporate legal sector in other emerging economies such as China and India.
J. Benjamin Hurlbut is trained in the history of modern biomedical and life sciences. His research lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, bioethics and political theory. He studies the changing relationships between science, politics and law in the governance of biomedical research and innovation in the 20th and 21st centuries. Focusing on controversy around morally and technically complex problems in areas such as human embryonic stem cell research and genomics, Hurlbut examines the interplay of science and technology with shifting notions of democracy, of religious and moral pluralism, and of public reason. He is author of Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics (Columbia University Press, 2017). He holds an A.B. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard Kennedy School.
Christopher is a lecturer in the School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal where he teaches human rights and international law. His research focuses broadly on international law, with a specific interest in international criminal law and international humanitarian law, as well as international legal theory. He has acted as an adviser to litigants in cases concerning international law in South Africa and abroad and most recently co-authored an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. He also acts as a consultant for various non-governmental organizations on issues relating to human rights and international law.
Professor Danielsen is a legal scholar who spent many years as an international business lawyer. He teaches Corporations, Law and Development, International Business Regulation, International Law and Conflict of Laws. Professor Danielsen’s research explores the complex role of the business firm in global governance.
Judge Dennis Davis was educated at Herzlia School, Universities of Cape town (UCT) and Cambridge. He began teaching at UCT in 1977 and was appointed to a personal chair of Commercial Law, in 1989. Between 1991 and 1997 he was Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand. He held joint appointment at Wits and UCT 1995 – 1997. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1998 and as President of the Competition Appeal Court in 2000. Since his appointment to the Bench, he has continued to teach constitutional law and tax law at UCT where he is an Hon. Professor of law.
Deval Desai is post-doctoral research fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Graduate Institute, Geneva. Mixing legal analysis, social theory, and ethnographic field research, he researches political and legal contestation over the role of expertise in domestic and global law and governance. He also researches the transnational – and often expert-driven – theory and design of rule of law systems in the global South. His current research projects critically examine ignorance and creativity as modes of regulation and policymaking, focusing on multi-stakeholder initiatives and on rule of law reform. His work has been supported by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy, the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Canada’s International Development Research Corporation, and others. Since 2009, Deval has also worked for the World Bank as a rule of law reform and governance expert in Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Uganda; as well as advising the UN on rule of law issues. As a lawyer, he has worked on corporate accountability, including as an attorney on the case of Kiobel before the US Supreme Court. Trained in history and French literature (M.A., Oxford), and law and social theory (LL.M. and S.J.D., Harvard Law School), he is a member of the Bar of England and Wales.
Ermal Frasheri finished his doctoral studies, S.J.D, at Harvard Law School, where he worked in the areas of law and international development, international law, European integration, and social and political theories. His dissertation, titled “Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania,” examined the relationship between regional integration and development in the framework of the European Union enlargement strategy. He has written papers on legal reform, international law, financial services, and European integration. His current research focuses on the modes of reproduction of hierarchies and inequalities in international law, migration, property rights and economic development. Apart from his research, he has taught International Trade Law at Sturm College of Law, Public International Law at Babson College, European Union Law at New England Law – Boston, a series of workshops on Law and Development at Harvard Law School, and have been a teaching fellow in Harvard College, where he has taught tutorials on social studies, international relations, democracy, European integration, political corruption, and comparative politics. Since 2015, he teaches a seminar on Law and Corruption at Sturm College of Law, Denver University.
Mr. Butuyan most recently was the Commissioner (Undersecretary/Deputy Minister) at the Philippine Competition Commission. He earned a Master of Laws degree from the Harvard Law School. As a former senior litigator and team leader for Asia and the Pacific at the World Bank, he is interested in the damaging effects of corruption on the political and judicial structures of developing countries and on legal activism essential for combating systemic injustices. He sees international efforts to combat corruption as primarily targeting businesses, and for the most part leaving out the main victims of graft—the citizens of endemically corrupt nations. Current efforts to improve victims’ rights and access to compensation have often yielded a few concrete results. This is largely due to the lack of essential resources. As a result, ordinary victims of corruption continue to suffer. Currently, Mr. Butuyan conducts research on and teaches about corruption-related topics at leading institutions, including the Harvard Law School where he is a Lecturer in Law on Transnational Corruption.
As an expert in feminist approaches to law and development, Helena Alviar has been invited to teach and speak to audiences around the world. She has published articles in the United States and Latin America, and has been awarded with the Colfuturo Scholarship, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Enrique Low Murtra Scholaship, the Lewis Fellowship, and the Byse Fellowship.
Hisashi is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He teaches there Private International Law, including International civil procedure and international commercial arbitration. His main areas of specialization are Private International Law and Comparative Law, especially between the Western Legal Tradition and Asian legal systems.
Horatia Muir Watt is tenured Professor at Sciences Po, where she is Co-Director of the program “Global Governance Studies » (which covers private international law, arbitration and litigation, human rights) within the Master’s Degree in Economic Law. Horatia Muir Watt received a PhD in private international law from the University of Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 in 1985 and passed the agrégation examination in private law in 1986 (ranked second). She is a tenured Professor in private international law and in comparative law. She taught at the University of Tours, at the University of Paris XI, and at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne between 1996 and 2009 and was appointed to Sciences Po in 2009, when she participated actively in the creation of the law school. She is a Member of the Institute of International Law (since 2013). She is Editor-in-chief of the Revue critique de droit international privé (the leading French-language journal on private international law) and a member of the publication committees of numerous other legal journals, among which the Journal of Private International Law, European Review of Contract Law and Transnational Legal Theory. She founded the PILAGG (private international law and global governance) research group, now run with the LSE. The launching article is « Private International Law beyond the Schism », (2011) 2(3) Transnational Legal Theory 347–427. The first publication of the research group’s collective work is currently in process with Oxford University Press.
I hold a JD from the University of California Hastings, a LLM and PhD from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, and served as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Helsinki and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. Previous to Manchester, I held tenure-track positions at Durham University School of Law and Mississippi College School of Law, and visiting faculty and research roles at the International University College of Turin, Lille Catholic University, University of Cambridge, and the University of San Francisco. I served as the assistant director at the Institute for the Study of Political Economy (2010-2012) and the co-director of the MC School of Law International and Comparative Law Centre (2012-2016). In addition to my senior lecturer role at the University of Manchester School of Law, I currently am a faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP, Harvard Law School) and write a blog series at The Faculty Lounge about law schools.
Professor Ohnesorge teaches Business Organizations and Administrative Law, as well as seminars in Chinese Law, and in law and economic development in developing countries. He is the former Associate Director and then Director of the Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center (2001-2014), and former Chair of the Wisconsin China Initiative (2008-2012).
Before joining the FIU College of Law, Professor Esquirol was a professor of law at the Northeastern University School of Law from 1997-2002 and Director of Academic Affairs at the Harvard Law School Graduate Program from 1992-1997. He has been a resident scholar at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France, a visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Law, and a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. As Director of Academic Affairs, he had administrative responsibility for the Harvard Law Graduate Programs; taught LL.M. students; administered the International Legal Studies Program and related conferences, lectures and workshops; and planned several international law conferences. Professor Esquirol earned his B.A. in Finance summa cum laude from Georgetown University. After earning his J.D. degree at Harvard, he clerked on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and was an associate attorney at the Wall Street firm of Shearman and Sterling. He has a doctoral degree in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, focusing on Latin American legal systems. Professor Esquirol is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. He teaches international law, comparative law and commercial law at FIU.
Karen Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory.
Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She is author of The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. She is co-editor of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (Routledge, 1995). She has also authored numerous scholarly articles on gender and international law and U.S. employment discrimination law.
Professor Engle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. with honors from Baylor University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Jerre S. Williams on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then served as a post-doctoral Ford Fellow in Public International Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Law at the University of Utah prior to joining the University of Texas in 2002.
Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009 and an assignment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Bogota in 2010. In 2016-17, she was the Deborah Lunder and Alan Ezekowitz Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Kerry Rittich is Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Women’s and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She teaches and writes in the areas of international law and international institutions, law and development, human rights, labour law, and critical and feminist theory. Among her publications are Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002); (with Joanne Conaghan, University of Kent), Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, (Oxford University Press, 2005); “Core Labour Rights and Labour Market Flexibility: Two Paths Entwined?”, Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, Labor Law Beyond Borders: ADR and the Internationalization of Labor Dispute Resolution, (Kluwer Law International, 2003) and “The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social” in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos eds., The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006). In 2004, she completed a report for the Law Commission of Canada entitled, Vulnerable Workers: Legal and Policy Issues in the New Economy. She obtained an LL.B. from the University of Alberta in 1992, and an SJD from Harvard University in 1998. In 1992-93, she served as Law Clerk to Madame Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Rittich has been the Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard Law School and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and a fellow at the European University Institute.
Kittipong Kittayarak is the Executive Director of the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), the host of the TIJ Workshop for Emerging Leaders on the Rule of Law and Policy. He is also a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University. Prior to that, he has held several key public of ces including the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice where he helped engineer key reform initiatives including the restructuring of the Ministry of Justice, police reform, and mainstreaming restorative justice in Thailand. He was actively involved in the international campaign that results in the development and adoption of the new set of the United Nations standards and norms on women offenders. He also serves as an expert and panelist at key international fora including the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Dr. Kittayarak earned his LL.B. from Chulalongkorn University, LL.M. from Cornell Law School and Harvard Law School, and J.S.D. from Stanford Law School. He is also a lecturer at a number of academic institutes in Thailand, including the Bar Association of Thailand.
Lucie White is the Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Executive Committee member of the Harvard Center for African Studies. After working for two decades on critical lawyering and client voice in the context of US poverty, she turned to the issue of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, for a decade she has worked with Ghanaian partners on an interdisciplinary Right to Health project that challenges the ways that Ghana’s health finance system contributes to economic and social inequality. She has been a Fulbright Senior Africa Scholar, a Carnegie Scholar on Teaching and Learning, a scholar in residence at the Harvard Divinity School, and a Bunting Scholar at Radcliffe College. In 2006, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, she initiated “Stones of Hope,” a collaboration among African human rights activists and distinguished human rights scholars to examine African innovations in Economic and Social Rights advocacy. This project culminated in a recent book, L. White and J. Perelman eds., Stones of Hope: African Lawyers Use Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (Stanford University Press, 2010).
Luis works in the areas of International Law, International Legal Theory and History, Anthropology of International Law, Global Governance, Public Law, Law and Development, and Urban Law and Politics. His research focuses on the relationship between international and domestic legal orders, and the effects of this relationship both on our jurisprudential understanding of these areas of law, and on the constitution of everyday life in today’s global order.
Madelaine is a Lecturer in the La Trobe Law School. She researches primarily in public international law, and is particularly interested in the histories of international law, the relationships between the global and the local, and the role of international law in Australian life. Madeline’s PhD examined the use of international legal language in the Australian public debates over Australia’s participation in the 2003 Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the First World War. Her current research investigates internationalism in Australia through histories of the Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law, and of international lawyers in Australia more broadly.
Professor Woo, a leading expert on the Anglo-American legal system and the Chinese socialist legal system, teaches Civil Procedure, Administrative Law and Comparative Law. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) and is presently an associate of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard University. She has received many prestigious grants from a variety of organizations, including the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and is on the Senior Scholar Roster for the Fulbright Scholars Program. In 2015, she served as an invited visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg. In 2018, she was selected for a Fulbright Specialist award. Under the Fulbright auspices, she is partnering with faculty at the University of Florence in Italy to develop a series of comparative law seminars at the University of Florence that address the changing landscape of international cooperation over the past year, including BREXIT, multi-lateral treaties, and ongoing political developments in the US and Europe that, as a whole, suggest further withdrawals from international law institutions, comparative law projects and multi-lateral institutions may be imminent. Professor Woo is the co-editor of East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Culture (Routledge, 2003), and Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (Cambridge University Press, 2011). She is also co-author of Litigating in America: Civil Procedure in Context (Aspen Publishing, 2006). She is a co-editor of the American Association of Law School’s Journal of Legal Education. Professor Woo is a member of the prestigious American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation. She has also served on the board of trustees for numerous organizations, including for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Boston Chapter), the Harry Dow Legal Assistance Fund and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 1997, she was named the law school’s Distinguished Professor of Public Policy.
Mark Wu is the Henry L. Stimson Professor at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on international trade law, including issues concerning emerging economies, digital trade, intellectual property, trade remedies, environment, and investment. At Harvard, Wu is a Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He serves as a member of the Faculty Advisory Committees of the East Asian Legal Studies Program and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is also a Faculty Associate of Harvard University’s Center for the Environment. In 2016, he was appointed by the World Trade Organization to serve on the Advisory Board for the WTO Chairs Programme. Wu also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Trade and Foreign Direct Investment. In addition, he works with the World Bank on assessing trade agreements and serves on multiple expert groups convened by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. He is an Editorial Board member of the World Trade Review and of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s series on intellectual property, innovation and economic development. Prior to academia, Wu served as the Director for Intellectual Property in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He was the lead U.S. negotiator for the IP chapters of several free trade agreements. He continues to serve as a principal liaison to the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee. Before government service, Wu worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. where he led engagements in technology sectors. He began his career as an economist and operations officer with the World Bank in China, working on environmental, urban development, health and rural poverty issues. He also worked briefly as an economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Namibia. Wu received his J.D. from Yale Law School, his M.Sc. in Development Economics from Oxford University (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and his A.B. summa cum laude in Social Studies and East Asian Studies from Harvard University.
Mika Yokoyama is Professor of Law at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law. She received her LLM from Waseda University. Her areas of research and teaching include comparative law, property law, law of contract, and family Law.
Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin is a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. Prior to joining Birmingham, he served Keele University as a Lecturer in Law, Yokohama National University (Japan) as a Visiting Professor of International Law, and Jahangirnagar University (Bangladesh) as the founding chair of its Department of Law and Justice. He was a Junior Faculty for Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop from 2011 to 2017. Shahab completed PhD in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is the author of Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics, and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Professor and Chair of International Law at Tilburg Law School, appointed on January 1st, 2016. Rajkovic’s research addresses the question of how international organizations, states, and non-state actors compete to impose different types of international legal rules in an increasingly globalized world. He is an award-winning lecturer who will draw from dual qualifications in International Law and International Relations to prepare Tilburg students for the growing complexities of international and global law in the 21st century.
Dr. Osama Siddique is a legal scholar, policy reform advisor and author. He is an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS), Lahore, Pakistan. He has also worked as an Associate Professor of Law & Policy and was the founding head of department (2005-2007) at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Siddique has extensive experience in research and policy work in the fields of law and public policy. He has several scholarly publications in international academic journals in the areas of comparative constitutional law, law and development, legal history, human rights, legal education, and justice sector reform. He has also worked extensively as a justice sector reform adviser to Pakistani courts, federal and provincial government departments, the United Nations and various international bilateral and multilateral financial institutions, including the ADB, USAID, DFID, EU, GIZ and World Bank. He is a regular participant in local and international academic conferences and policy dialogues. He has also practiced as a transactional lawyer in New York and as an advocate of the appellate courts in Pakistan. His most recent book publication is ‘Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Dr. Siddique is also currently a member of the Senior Faculty of the Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School for the 2015 IGLP Workshop.
Professor Korhonen, MSc, LL.M, Lic.Phil, SJD, obtained her doctorate at Harvard Law School. Her main area of expertise is international law. Korhonen has worked in academia and in government, She is Docent at the Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland (Finland). She has taught at Boston University (Brussels), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and American University (Cairo). Her teaching spans over a variety of international and law subjects including general international law, human rights, international and EU environmental regulation, foreign relations regulation, crisis and post-conflict governance and jurisprudence Korhonen has advised on EU-compatible law-drafting in Eastern Europe; prepared human rights and civics manuals in Kosovo, and participated in a joint Scandinavian project to support the rehabilitation of former combatants. Her research interests are global law and policy, critical theory and philosophy including methodology, and law and culture. Korhonen’s publications include 6 books and she is author of more than 40 scholarly articles and book chapters. She participates in many professional networks including the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights and the Institute of Global Law and Policy (Harvard), the Regulation Network (ANU) and the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East (Cornell). She has administrative experience from the Finnish government and the EU having held appointments as Legal Adviser to the Government Financial Controller General and Research Counsellor with the EU. The international law chair in Turku is preparing a research initiative titled Constituting Control – Mapping the Narrative Layers of Global Law, Security and Economics; it organizes international workshops on this theme with other projects in the faculty, welcomes international graduate students and visitors, and participates actively in multidisciplinary projects of the university.
Ratna Kapur is currently a Visiting Professor at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. Her regular position is as Distinguished Faculty, Symbiosis School of Law, India, and Senior Faculty, Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. She has written and published extensively on human rights, international law, and postcolonial and feminist legal theory. She has taught as a visiting faculty at a large number of universities around the world, including Yale Law School, Georgetown University Law Centre and the UN Peace University (Costa Rica). Her books include Makeshift Migrants and Law: Gender, Belonging and Postcolonial Anxieties (Routledge, 2010), Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism (Cavendish/Taylor & Francis, 2005) and Secularisms Last Sigh? (co-authored, Oxford University Press, reprint 2001). Her latest book, Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl, is forthcoming by Edward Elgar Publishers.
Richard joined the Faculty of Law as a lecturer in February 2011. His main research interests are in international law, development and legal theory – with a focus on the concept of sovereignty. His theoretical work draws in particular on critical and post-structural theory.
Robert Chu is a partner resident in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Melbourne office, and heads the Firm’s Australia practice. Mr. Chu formerly headed the Firm’s Beijing office. He joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 1999 after teaching contracts and international law at Rutgers Law School.
Robert Wai has been a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1998 and served as Associate Dean of the Law School from January 2006 through June 2008. He teaches Contracts, Ethical Lawyering in a Global Community, International Business Transactions and International Trade Regulation. Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Wai served as law clerk to Justice Gérard La Forest of the Supreme Court of Canada, articled at the firm of Russell & DuMoulin in Vancouver, and worked as an associate in corporate/commercial law with the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He completed graduate work in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and his doctorate in international law as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School. Professor Wai’s current research focuses on governance through public and private law in areas such as international business transactions and transnational litigation.
Rose received her doctorate in 2011 from the SOAS Law School (University of London). She is has been a faculty member at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School) since 2011 and has taught or continues to teach at several other institutions including the American University in Cairo, Helsinki Law School, the London School of Economics, SOAS, Los Andes University and Melbourne Law School.
Sundhya Pahuja is the Director of Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH). Her research focuses on the history, theory and practice of international law in both its political and economic dimensions. She has a particular interest in international law and the relationship between North and South, and the practice, and praxis, of development and international law. Sundhya has been awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit (2012), the Woodward Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2014) and a Fulbright Senior Scholar award which she took up in 2016 at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2017, Sundhya will hold a fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) in South Africa. Sundhya has been invited to give the 2018 Lauterpacht Lectures at the University of Cambridge.
Vasuki Nesiah is a legal scholar with a focus on public international law. Her main areas of research include the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism, with a particular focus on transitional justice. She has published widely on the history and politics of human rights, humanitarianism, international criminal law, international feminisms and colonial legal history. These continue to be areas of research and writing but the primary focus of her current research is reparations. A volume which she co-edited with Luis Eslava and Michael Fakhri, A Global History of Bandung and Critical Traditions in International Law will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year. This work reflects her continued interest in critical approaches to international law that find their intellectual and political home in the global south and in the grappling with decolonization. She is one of the founding members of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and has continued as an active participant in this global network of scholars for over two decades. Nesiah teaches human rights, law and social theory, and the politics of war and memory at NYU. She also continues as core faculty in Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP); In this capacity she has taught for six years in the IGLP summer and winter workshops in Cambridge, Doha, Capetown, Madrid and Bangkok. Currently, she is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School where she taught a course on human rights, gender and development in a visiting capacity. Prior to joining Gallatin, Professor Nesiah taught in the International Relations and Gender Studies concentrations at Brown University where she also served as Director of International Affairs. Formerly, she taught at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She serves on the international editorial committees of the journals Feminist Legal Studies and the London Review of International Law and on the International Advisory Board of the Institute of International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne; she is also an Associate Fellow with the Asia Society in New York. Before entering the academy full time, Professor Nesiah spent over seven years in practice at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), where she worked on law and policy issues in the field of post-conflict human rights for over seven years. Originally from Sri Lanka, she earned her BA in Philosophy and Government at Cornell University, was a visiting student in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Oxford University, and earned her JD and SJD, an interdisciplinary doctorate in public international law, at Harvard Law School. She was awarded a fellowship for a post-doctoral program in human rights at Columbia Law School.
Dr. Kumar joined Leicester in June 2016. Prior to that she was, a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham University, a Visiting Research Fellow at LSE’s Centre for International Studies, and was a postdoctoral Fellow at The Munk School for Global Affairs, University of Toronto. She is currently a Junior Faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School (USA). She has recently been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia and a Visiting Researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Wei Cui’s research interests include tax law and policy, law and development, law and economics, and Chinese law and political economy. He has held visiting professorships at the law schools of Michigan, Northwestern, Columbia, and Melbourne Universities, among other institutions, and has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the Budgetary Affairs Commission of China’s National People’s Congress, and China’s Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation. Professor Cui has had extensive practical experience in both U.S. and Chinese tax law. Between 2009 and 2010, he served as Senior Tax Counsel for the China Investment Corporation. Professor Cui is a current member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and serves as an advisor to a number of professional organizations in international taxation.