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IILAH Reading Group
IILAH Reading Group 2019
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Reading with IILAH
Explore other reading groups with IILAH in 2019:
- Queer Reading of the Law
- Laws and the Humanities in the Anthropocene
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Masterclasses and Roundtables
IILAH hosts a variety of interdisciplinary masterclasses and roundtables
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Publications
The research undertaken by IILAH members is published by a wide variety of leading international publishers, scholarly journals, professional journals, working papers, community and public interest outlets.
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Members of the Institute are currently involved in the below projects (this is not an exhaustive list, and will be progressively updated).
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Cold War International Law Project
Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson (LSE), Matthew Craven (SOAS)
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Counter Narratives
Dr Kathleen Birrell
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Offices of the Southern Jurist-Diplomat
Adil Hasan Khan, Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja
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Critical Development Studies Network
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes (Deakin), Rebecca Monson (ANU), Gashahun Lemessa Fura, John Altman (Deakin), Sundhya Pahuja
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Eavesdropping
Dr James Parker
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Strategic litigation on climate change in Europe
Jacqueline Peel, Hari Osofsy (PennState), Anita Foerster
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Corporate Energy Transition
Jacqueline Peel, Hari Osofsy (PennState), Brett McDonnell, Anita Foerster
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Transition to a clean energy future: the role of climate litigation
Jacqueline Peel and Hari Osofsy (PennState)
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Legal Biographies
Shaun McVeigh, Peter Rush & Ann Genovese
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Eminent Scholars
Video interviews with eminent scholars within law and the humanities
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Constellations
Dr Rose Parfitt (Kent)
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Children’s Rights: From Theory to Practice
John Tobin
Forthcoming events
Past events
Previous Events (2014-2017)
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities organises conferences, public lectures, workshops, seminars and reading groups.
Directors, Program Directors and Fellows ->
Directors, Program Directors and Fellows
Directors, Program Directors and Fellows
IILAH is home to a dynamic group of scholars who are global leaders in their field. IILAH academics support emerging scholars by supervising graduate research students. IILAH also hosts visiting academics from within Australia and the world.
- Professor Sundhya Pahuja
IILAH Director
- Balawyn Jones
IILAH Research Fellow
- Dr Kathleen Birrell
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Adil Hasan Khan
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Shane Chalmers
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Professor Michelle Foster
Program Director: International Refugee Law, Director: Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness
- Associate Professor Ann Genovese
Program Co-Director: Australian Legal Histories
- Professor Kirsty Gover
Program Dirctor: Indigenous Peoples in International and Comparative Law
- Dr Tanya Lee Josev
Program Co-Director: Australian Legal Histories
- Professor Jurgen Kurtz
Program Director: International Investment Law
- Associate Professor Shaun McVeigh
Program Director: Jurisprudence of the South
- Dr Jennifer Beard
Program Director: Law and Development
- Dr James Parker
Program Co-Director: Law, Science, Technology and Society
- Dr Jeremy Baskin
Program Co-Director: Law, Science, Technology and Society, Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne School of Government
- Professor Jacqueline Peel
Program Director: International Environment Law
- Associate Professor Peter Rush
Program Director: International Criminal Justice
- Professor Hilary Charlesworth
Program Co-Director: International Human Rights Law
- Professor John Tobin
Program Co-Director: International Human Rights Law
- Professor Margaret Young
Program Director: Fragmentation and Regime Interaction in International Law
- Professor Anne Orford
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, IILAH Director Emeritus, Founding IILAH Director (2005 - 2011)
- Professor Dianne Otto
Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law, Program Director: Feminist and Queer Approaches to International Law, Former IILAH Director (2012-2015)
members
members
- Dr Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Director of the Disability Human Rights Clinic, Melbourne Law School
- Dr Olivia Barr
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Alison Duxbury
Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Lee Godden
Director: Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School
- Dr Piers Gooding
Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Wendy Larcombe
Teacher and Researcher, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Andrew Mitchell
ARC Future Fellow, Director of Studies in International Economic Law, Melbourne Law School
- Ms Paula O’Brien
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Bruce ‘Ossie’ Oswald
Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School
- Dr Jordy Silverstein
Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Melbourne
- Professor Joo-Cheong Tham
Melbourne Law School
- Professor Tania Voon
Co-Director: Global Economic Law Network, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Amanda Whiting
Co-Director: Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School
- Tom Andrews
PhD Student
Thesis: A Jurisprudence of Procedure
Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
- Nina Araneta-Alana
PhD Student
Thesis: International Climate Finance and the Philippine Climate Change Response: A Legal and Critical Analysis of Rules, Institutions and Structures
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Margaret Young
- Sadaf Aziz
PhD Student
Thesis: The State of Knowledge and Knowledges of the State in Pakistan
Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja
- Renuka Balasubramaniam
PhD Student
Thesis: Supplementing Gaps in Social Protections Within the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry: A Role for Business
Supervisors: Jennifer Beard and Amanda Whiting
- Bernice Carrick
PhD Student
Thesis: Migration Status Equality in the Midst of the Border
Supervisors: Jenny Beard and Beth Gaze
- Emily Cheesman
PhD Student
Thesis: Bringing Street Childrens' Rights to Life: Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in the Philippines
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and John Tobin
- Johanna Commins
PhD Student
Thesis: Law’s handmaids: text, image, resistance and the rule of law
Supervisors: Peter Rush and Ann Genovese
- André Dao
PhD Student
Thesis: Human Rights for the Algorithmic Society
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Hilary Charlesworth
- Alexis Ian Paguia Dela Cruz
PhD Student
Thesis: The Imperial Sea: Imaginaries of Ocean Rule of Law and Development
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Margaret Young
- Debolina Dutta
PhD Student
Thesis: Activist Stories of Law: Adda with Sexworkers and Academics in Postcolonial India
Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Ann Genovese
- Christopher Gevers
PhD Student
Thesis: African states’ engagement with international law: a theoretical exposition
Supervisors: Anne Orford and Gerry Simpson
- Valeria Vazquez Guevara
PhD Student
Thesis: The Legal Forms and Force of Truth Commissions
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
- Ingrid Landau
PhD Student
Thesis: From rights to risks: transnational labour regulation and the emerging business of human rights due diligence
Supervisors: John Howe and John Tobin
- Andrea Leiter
PhD Student
Thesis: The making of a legal field - International Investment Law
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Ursula Kriebaum (Vienna)
- Tim Lindgren
PhD Student
Thesis: Beyond the Universality of International Law: Earth Jurisprudences and Ruptures from the Peripheries
Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja
- Odette Mazel
PhD Student
Thesis: Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house? Queer perspectives on law, difference, and radicalism after marriage equality in Australia
Supervisors: Elizabeth Gaze and Ann Genovese
- Juliette McIntyre
PhD Student
Thesis: Procedures of the International Court: Theory, Function and Practice
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Margaret Young
- Claerwen O’Hara
PhD Student
Thesis: State Practice in Modern International Human Rights Law: A Case Study on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Sundhya Pahuja
- Alice Palmer
PhD Student
Thesis: Aesthetics of Image in International Environmental Law
Supervisors: Lee Godden and Shaun McVeigh
- Laura Petersen
PhD Student
Thesis: Forms of Restitution after the Holocaust: encounters between art and law
Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
- William Phillips
PhD Student
Thesis: The Why and Wherefore of Human Rights: Examining the grounding relations of human rights
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Dale Smith
- Robi Rado
PhD Student
Thesis: Trading in People and Trading in Services: The Political Economy of Indians' International Labour Mobility, the Development Project and International Law
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Jürgen Kurtz
- Anna Saunders
MPhil Student
Thesis: Enemy States and the United Nations: A Legal and Political History
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Anne Orford
- Ana Maria Palacio Valencia
PhD Student
Thesis: The Pacific Alliance: Assessing the Institutional Framework and Designing Reforms for Long-Term Consolidation
Supervisors: Tania Voon and Andrew Mitchell
- Kay Wilson
PhD Student
Thesis: The relationship between resources and human rights in mental health law, policy and practice
Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Bernadette McSherry
associate members
associate members
IILAH is home to an international network of Associate Members who support the Institute's work through engaging with its research programmes.
- Dr Marie Aronsson-Storrier
Lecturer, University of Reading
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Dr Sam Balaton-Chrimes
Deakin University
- Professor Ruth Buchanan
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Dr Madelaine Chiam
Lecturer, La Trobe Law School
- Professor Matthew Craven
Professor of International Law, SOAS University of London
- Dr Julia Dehm
Lecturer, La Trobe Law School
- Dr Sara Dehm
Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
- Treasa Dunworth
Associate Professor, University of Auckland
- Dr Maria Elander
Lecturer, La Trobe Law School
- Dr Luis Eslava
Reader in Law, Kent Law School and Co-Director for the Center for Critical International Law (CeCIL)
- Professor Peter Fitzpatrick
Birkbeck, University of London
- Professor Raimond Gaita
Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King’s College London
- Dr Rosemary Grey
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney
- Associate Professor Ben Golder
Associate Dean, UNSW Law
- Associate Professor Judy Grbich
at Griffith University and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Feminist Law Journal
- Associate Professor Kevin Jon Heller
University of Amsterdam
- Professor Fleur Johns
UNSW
- Dr Richard Joyce
Senior Lecturer, Monash University
- Dr Eve Lester
Independent Researcher and Consultant
- Dr Rose Parfitt
Lecturer, Kent Law School
- Associate Professor Sara Ramshaw
University of Victoria, Canada
- Professor Gerry Simpson
London School of Economics
- Assistant Professor Oishik Sircar
Jindal Global University
- Dr Guy Fiti Sinclair
Victoria University of Wellington
- Joel Stern
Curator, Researcher and Sound Artist, Liquid Architecture
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities regularly welcomes local and international academic colleagues.
2020 Visitors
2019 Visitors
- Dr Vidya Kumar
15 October 2019 – 9 January 2020
University of Leicester, School of Law
- Associate Professor Judy Grbich
1 January - 31 December 2019
Socio-Legal Research Centre at Griffith Law School, Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Feminist Law Journal
- Dr Adrian Howe
1 January - 21 December 2019
Freelance Writer and Researcher
- Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarin
19 July – 29 October 2019
Graduate Student, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Professor Matthew Craven
13 September – 21 September 2019
SOAS, School of Law
- Professor Gerry Simpson
19 August – 2 September 2019
London School of Economics, Department of Law
- Professor Payandeh Mehrdad
15 June - 30 August
Chair for International Law, European Law and Public Law, Bucerius Law School
- Associate Professor Sara Ramshaw
20 July – 8 August 2019
University of Victoria, Canada
- Raphael Schäfer
15 July – 31 July 2019
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute
- Assistant Professor Mando Rachovista
8 July - 28 July
University of Groningen, School of Law
- Assistant Professor Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
7 July - 18 July 2019
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Associate Professor Stacy Douglas
10 April - 10 June 2019
Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
- Dr Jadson Taliadoros
4 March - 30 June
Senior Lecturer, Deakin University
- Professor Kerry Rittich
29 April - 10 May 2019
Women and Gender Studies, School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
- Associate Professor Robert Sze-Kwok Wai
29 April - 7 May 2019
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Professor Antoine Buyse
4 March - 30 April
Utrecht University School of Law, Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
- Assistant Professor Jeffrey Hewitt
17 April - 28 April
University of Windsor, Faculty of Law
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Applications for the Visiting Scholar Program
IILAH focuses its visiting scholar programme on people who already have ongoing collaborations with current IILAH members. If you are working on a publication or other project with a member of IILAH (or MLS faculty member) and would like to join the program, please contact our Director Professor Sundhya Pahuja.
- 2018 Visitors
Dr Luis Eslava
Kent Law School
29 January
Academic host Sundhya PahujaAdjunct Professor Ian Duncanson
Professor with the Socio-Legal Research Centre (Griffith) & Research Associate with the Institute for Postcolonial Studies
Griffith Law School
1 January - 31 December
Academic host Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Judy Grbich
Associate Professor and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Feminist Law Journal
Griffith University
1 January - 31 December
Academic host Sundhya PahujaDr Karen Crawley
Managing Editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Lecturer at Griffith Law School
1 March - 31 March
Academic host Ann GenoveseProfessor Ruth Buchanan
Professor of Law at the Osgoode Hall Law School (York University), Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School
16 April - 2 May
Academic host Sundhya PahujaDr Isobel Roele
Senoir Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London & Deputy Director at the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context.
1 May - 14 June
Academic host Hilary CharlesworthDr Patrick Graham
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and Lecturer at UNE School of Law
16 April - 2 May
Academic host Ann GenoveseMr Francesco Corradini
Researcher (International Law) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
23 July - 30 November
Academic host Sundhya PahujaProfessor Gerry Simpson
Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School
23 August - 15 September
Academic host Sundhya PahujaDr Amanda Dale
International Human Rights Scholar, Executive Director of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and Post Doctoral Fellow at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
30 November - 8 December
Academic host Sundhya Pahuja - 2017 Visitors
Associate Professor Vidya Kumar
Leicester Law School, University of Leicester
24 January - 11 April
Academic host Sundhya PahujaDr Henry Jones
MLS International Research Visiting Scholar
Durham Law School, Durham University
20 February - 31 March
Academic host Cait StorrDr John Morss
Senior Lecturer
Deakin University
6 March - 16 June
Academic host Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Judith Grbich
Griffith University
1 May - 31 December
Academic host Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Sara Ramshaw
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria (Canada)
7 July - 7 August
Academic host James ParkerJeswynn Yogaratnam
Charles Darwin University School of Law
1 September - 31 December
Academic host Sundhya Pahuja - 2016 Visitors
Dr Ivana Radacic
Senior Research Associate
Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb
4 January - 29 January
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoProfessor Diamond Ashiagbor
SOAS, University of London
18 December - 14 April
Academic host Associate Professor Shaun McVeighMr Nikolas Tan
Aarhus University & Danish Institute for Human Rights
11 January - 26 February
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterProfessor Matthew Craven
Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
Centre for Ottoman Studies
SOAS, University of London
28 February - 15 March
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Judith Grbich
Griffith Law School
24 May - 31 December 2016
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Sheila Jasanoff
Harvard Kennedy School
6 May - 4 June 2016
Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting FellowDr Kcasey McLoughlin
Newcastle Law School
23 August - 26 August 2016
Academic host Associate Professor Ann GenoveseDr Lourdes Peroni
Ghent University Law School
26 September - 16 December 2016
Academic host Professor Dianne Otto - 2015 Visitors
Mr Vernon Rive
Senior Lecturer/Barrister
AUT Law School, Auckland
6 July-6 November 2015
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterDr Maria Drakopoulou
Centre for Critical Thought
Kent Law School
University of Westminster
18-22 May 2015
Academic host Associate Professor Ann GenoveseProfessor Hélène Lambert
Westminster Law School
University of Westminster
20 April-1 May 2015
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterProfessor Matthew Craven
Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
Centre for Ottoman Studies
SOAS, University of London
7-13 April 2015
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaDr Cathryn Costello
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford
17 March-13 April 2015
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterDr Ronli Sifris
Faculty of Law
Monash University
IILAH Visitor: 16 February-15 May 2015
Academic host Professor Dianne Otto - 2014 Visitors
Ms Livia Johannesson
Department of Political Science
Stockholm University, Sweden
1 November-20 December 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Michelle FosterDr Helmut Philipp Aust
Public International Law and European Law
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1 October 2014-31 March 2015
Academic host Associate Professor Margaret YoungDr Adil Hasan Khan
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
1 October-31 December 2014
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Bai Guimei
Faculty of Law
Peking University
2-16 August 2014
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoDr Jason Taliadoros
School of Law
Deakin University
14 July 2014-28 February 2015
Academic host Dr Ann GenoveseMr Connal Parsley
Kent Law School
Eliot College, University of Kent
15 July-29 July 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Shaun McVeighMr Benjamin Schokman
Human Rights Law Centre
1 July-28 February 2015
Academic host Professor John TobinDr Richard Joyce
Faculty of Law
Monash University
1 July-31 December 2014
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Dino Kritsiotis
School of Law
University of Nottingham
27 May – 11 July 2014
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordMs Indira Rosenthal
International Secretariat, London
Amnesty International
31 March-31 July 2014
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoProfessor Vera Bergelson
Professor of Law and Robert E Knowlton Scholar
Rutgers School of Law
31 March-11 May 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Peter RushProfessor Diamond Ashiagbor
School of Law, SOAS
University of London
20 March-12 April 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Shaun McVeigh - 2013 Visitors
Associate Professor Mark Antaki
Law, McGill University
Montreal Canada
18 November–1 December 2013
Academic host: Associate Professor Peter RushDr Helen Carr
Kent Law School
University of Kent
5–10 September 2013
Academic host Dr Ann GenoveseProfessor Caroline Hunter
University of York Law School
5–10 September 2013
Academic host Dr Ann GenoveseProfessor Eva-Maria Svensson
University of Gothenburg
and University of Tromsø
28 February-30 April 2013
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordProfessor Dr María do Mar Castro Varela
Alice Salomon University, Germany
14 January-12 April 2013
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Dr Nikita Dhawan
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
14 January-12 April 2013
Academic host Professor Sundhya Pahuja - 2012 Visitors
Dr Ivana Radacic
Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia
3 October 2012-3 April 2013
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoDr Adriana Di Stefano
European Union Law, University of Catania
31 January-31 March 2012
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordDr Leila Brännström
Law, Lund University
16 January-30 April 2012
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordDr Levent Sabanogullari
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & Public International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
7 January-27 March 2012
Academic host Associate Professor Jürgen Kurtz - 2011 Visitors
Professor Jill Stauffer
Haverford College, USA
18 July-27 July 2011
Academic host Associate Professor Peter RushDr Eugene McNamee
Law, University of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland
15 July-15 August 2011
Academic host Associate Professor Peter RushDr Markus Gunneflo
Law, Lund University
12 February-21 May 2011
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordDr Matthew Nicholson
Law, UCL
6 February-21 February 2011
Academic host Professor Sundhya Pahuja
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Institute for Global Law and Policy
Harvard Law School
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Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute
Kings College London
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Australian Feminist Law Journal
Australia
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Humanity
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Sciences Po Law School
École De Droit
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Centre for the Study of Human Rights
London School of Economics and Political Science
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London Journal of International Law
Oxford University Press
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International Law at Westminster
University of Westminster
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Global Justice/Injustice
Justice Globale
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Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Centre for Critical International Law
University of Kent
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Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Melbourne, Australia
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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
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Society, Work and Development Institute
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Art and International Justice Initiative
IILAH is home to an exceptionally active group of researchers, most of whom have developed international reputations as leading scholars in their fields. The research undertaken by IILAH members is published by a wide variety of leading international publishers, scholarly journals, professional journals, working papers, community and public interest outlets. Below is a selection of books published by IILAH members.
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