The spring and summer seasons of 2018 will bring聽two researchers to the LLDRL, in collaboration with the O鈥橞rien Fellowship Program聽administered by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at the Faculty of Law.聽
Professor Radha D'Souza
From March through June 2018, the LLDRL will welcome聽O鈥橞rien Fellow聽Professor聽Radha D鈥橲ouza. Radha D鈥橲ouza is a critical scholar, activist, barrister and writer, who has lived and worked in India, New Zealand and the UK. She is currently a Reader in Law at the University of Westminster.聽Her research straddles legal studies, development studies, sociology, geography, theory, comparative philosophy, and history. D鈥橲ouza鈥檚 work is well-known for its interdisciplinary breadth and for critically聽engaging theories and practices within social movements.
Her book聽Contextualising Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters: Law, Science and Imperialism聽(Orient Longman India, 2006) is perhaps the only major critical work on interstate disputes over rivers within a federal constitution in a developing country context. Her work brings to light the legal, institutional, scientific, technological, and historical dimensions of the ongoing conflicts over Krishna waters in India. Her recent book聽What鈥檚 Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations聽(Pluto, 2018) maps聽for the first time the transformations in the regime of international rights to the transformations in post-World War capitalism.
Professor Lorena Poblete
From April through July 2018, the LLDRL will welcome O'Brienf Fellow Dr. Lorena Poblete. Lorena Poblete is a researcher at Argentina鈥檚 National Research Council (CIS-CONICET/IDES) and Associate Professor at the National University of San Mart铆n (IDAES-UNSAM). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and聽a DEA in Ethnology and Anthropology from the same university, and a Master's in Social Sciences from FLACSO (Argentina). She was a visiting scholar at Universit茅 de Lille 1 (France),聽Frei Universitat Berlin (Germany) and Princeton University (US). Her research is broadly focused on labour聽regulations, social security regimes and labour institutions. Currently, she is working聽on a project about formalization policies in Argentina. In particular, the project focuses on policies concerning atypical workers such as self-employed workers and paid domestic workers.
Since 2014, Lorena Poblete has participated in various activities organized by the Labour Law and Development Research聽Laboratory at 9I制作厂免费, and authored a working paper entitled 鈥淣ew Rights, Old Protection: The New Regulation for Domestic Workers in Argentina.鈥� During her fellowship, Dr. Poblete will be collaborating with Professor Adelle Blackett on new research on the enforcement of domestic workers鈥� labour rights in Argentina, in continuity with past research on this theme conducted through the LLDRL on South Africa and C么te d鈥橧voire.聽
