GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK (GSN)

Email for general queries and membership contact Dr Nauman Reayat, Convener, Global South Network at leicgsn@gmail.com . Follow us at Twitter

GSN brings together research students, scholars, CSOs, judges, lawyers, and civil society organisations from different countries of the Global South including but not limited to Pakistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Chile, and India.  It is the forum to examine interdisciplinary issues of the Global South. UK based Academics and researchers (including postgraduate researchers) focusing on interdisciplinary research (socio-legal, politico-legal, and/or socio-political) in the Global South run GSN. It aims to promote interdisciplinary research on and enhance international networking amongst the above groups in the Global South.

GSN contributes to the decolonisation of knowledge by providing the above groups with a dedicated forum where they can exchange knowledge and share good practices on interdisciplinary issues of the Global South (e.g. the politics of human rights and wrongs, the rule by law, ‘good’ and ‘bad’ governance, the resolution of disputes (civil dispute resolution including international commercial arbitration and mediation), etc.). In the long run, it will also reach an understanding with higher education institutes and policy makers in the Global South to inform policy-making on the interdisciplinary issues of the Global South.

SHORT-TERM OBJECTIVES

  • To facilitate knowledge exchange among academics, CSOs, judges, and lawyers in the Global South.
  • To publish an edited collection or special edition on an interdisciplinary issues of the Global South.
  • To organise research activities on interdisciplinary issues of the Global South. These issues may include but may not be limited to including but not limited to inequality, political instability, the politics of human rights and wrongs, judicial politics, dispute resolution, extremism and populism, and constitutional identity
  • Apply for internal and external funding including but not limited to ESRC IAA event / networking fund, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) networking scheme, and/or British Academy (BA)/Leverhulme Small Research Grants to support and promote activities of the network.

LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES

  • To influence policy-making in the Global South by initially collaborating with civil society organisations (CSOs) and policy-makers in the Global South and later working closely with them on policy-issues.
  • To diversify and strengthen research culture in the Global South.
  • To increase the recruitment of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers focusing on interdisciplinary issues of the Global South and host visiting lawyers and practitioners from the Global South.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
  1. Hybrid conference on judicial independence in Africa on 22 March 2023. Justice Dr Rasul Oriyomi Olukolu, High Court Lagos, Nigeria gave the keynote speech and Justice Sainabou Wadda Cisse, Court of Appeal, Gambia was the guest speaker.
  2. Launch event of the Global South Network on 22 March 2023. Keynote speaker was Justice Ayesha Malik, Supreme Court of Pakistan.

PAST ACTIVITIES

  1. International conference on judicial independence in developing democracies on 22 August 2022.
  2. A panel discussion on judicial independence in developing democracies during the Annual Conference of Law and Society Association 2022 at Lisbon, Portugal.
  3. A panel discussion on judicial independence and the rule of law in developing democracies during the annual conference of International Society of Public Law at Wroclaw, Poland.
  4. Virtual panel discussion on judicial independence in autocracies and democracies: comparisons on 9 September 2021. See details at https://naumanreayat.com/events/
  5. Virtual panel discussion on judicial politics in South Asia on 4 August 2021. See details at https://naumanreayat.com/events/

MEMBERS/PARTNERS

Mauro Arturo Rivera holds a Ph.D. from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. He was a Constitutional Doctrine Fellow at the Spanish Constitutional Court (2012-2013). Dr. Rivera performed research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and was a visiting professor at the University of Silesia in Poland. From 2016 to 2020, he held different positions at the Mexican Supreme Court and Federal Electoral Court. In 2021 he was appointed Senior Law Clerk at the Mexican Supreme Court and wrote more than 70 rulings on behalf of the Court. Mauro Arturo Rivera authored four monographs and over fifty papers/book chapters. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, leading the project “Qualified majorities in counter-majoritarian mechanisms: Towards a new theory of supermajorities in judicial review,” funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.

Moohyung Cho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. His research interests include comparative political institutions, judicial politics, autocracy and democracy, and political economy of institutions. His recent studies seek to explore political and economic conditions under which political leaders establish and maintain reasonably independent courts, particularly in the context of authoritarian regimes, emerging democracies, and Asian countries. Moohyung received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Duke University in 2020 and worked as a visiting researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Seoul National University. 

Marva Khan is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. She completed her BA-LL.B from LUMS and LL.M from Harvard Law School on the Fulbright Scholarship. Marva is the Co-founder of the Pakistani Feminist Judgments Project. She is also one of the founding members and the Co-Editor of the LUMS Law Journal, and served as an Article Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Her main areas of interest include constitutional law, human rights including disability rights, and gender. During her time at LUMS, she has designed and taught the following law electives: Constitutionalization of Gender; Expression Confined; Asking Feminist Questions in Pakistani Courts; and Gender Advocacy Clinic. Other courses taught by her include Constitution and Administrative Law, Constitution (Comparative) Law, Public Law, Introduction to Pakistan Legal System, and Introduction to Legal Reasoning. From 2020-21, Marva served as the Director, Lahore Chapter, Harvard Club of Pakistan . She also served as the first Vice President of the LUMS Law Alumni Association in 2017-2018. She has also taught at the Punjab Judicial Academy. In 2020, she completed Asian Development Bank’s Training of Trainers on Gender Sensitization and Harassment. Her recent publications include the following:

Marva’s recent publications include a chapter on Pakistan in 2021 Global Review of Constitutional law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4285035); a chapter on Special Courts in Pakistan, and a chapter on Accessible ICT as a Ray of Hope for Disability Rights in Pakistan. Marva also regularly writes for DandC.eu (https://dandc.eu/en/contributors/marva-khan). 

Professor Hakeem Yusuf is currently a  Professor of Global Law at the University of Derby having spent time as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Gibraltar, and Visiting Professor at the School of Law, and the Transitional Justice Institute , University of Ulster. He has taught at various universities across the United Kingdom including the Queen’s University Belfast, Strathclyde and Birmingham.


He was Professor in Global Law and Head of the Open University Law School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. He was Professor of Law and Global Legal Studies at the University of Derby. Hakeem is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In an earlier professional career, He worked as a Law Officer in the Attorney-General’s Chambers, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Nigeria after a stint in private practice.


Hakeem’s books include Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law (pioneer book in the Routledge Transitional Justice Series; shortlisted for the 2010 Kevin Boyle Prize by the Irish Association of Law Teachers) . He is also the author of Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth: Peace, Order and Good Government (awarded the prestigious John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History for 2015; shortlisted for the Kevin Boyle Prize 2015 by the Irish Association of Law Teachers). In 2011, Hakeem served as Commissioner on the Truth Commission in Osun State, Nigeria.


He has consulted for governments including those of the United States and Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. He has also consulted for non-governmental organisations like the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa.


Hakeem is a well-travelled researcher and scholar. He has been invited to present lectures and deliver keynote addresses papers at several conferences (including by the African Union), seminars, workshops and summer schools across many countries in Africa, Asia, the United States of America and Europe.

Dr Vikram Visana was appointed Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leicester in 2022. Before arriving at Leicester, he taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Huddersfield, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global History, Freie Universität Berlin. 

Vikram’s research focuses on Indian political thought from the nineteenth century to the present. His book, Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought (2022), is a reinterpretation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Indian contribution to ideas on global labour rights and liberal-republican critiques of capitalist monopoly. More recently, Vikram has published on the political thought of Hindu nationalism from the perspective of political emotion and his on-going research combines this perspective with republican political theory as found in the thinkers and movements of Dalit and Black emancipation in India and the United States.

Tasneem Kausar is a highly accomplished professor of law and jurisprudence, with an impressive array of academic and professional credentials. She is currently the Principal of the Pakistan College of Law, where she also serves as Director of the PCLRP-Lahore program. Additionally, Kausar is a Visiting Faculty member at Pakistan Administrative Services in Lahore, and an Advisor to both Dignity Rights International and the Punjab Public Service Commission.

Her areas of teaching and research include constitutional law and jurisprudence, political history, criminal laws and theory with a comparative law perspective and Islamic laws. Lately, her focus has been to study legal doctrines and institutional arrangements in constitutional law, and to examine the process of judicialization of politics and governance. She is deeply interested in studying the concept of rule of law and its transformation in a context of specific dynamics of a country. 

Her current teaching assignment include a coursework on ‘Financial Crime’ based on statutory instruments from different jurisdictions such as US, UK, Singapore, India and Pakistan. Her interest is to understand the concept of rule of law in connection with the development of accountability laws in various countries.

She has attended various national and international conferences.

In addition to her teaching and advisory work, Kausar is an accomplished writer, researcher and editor. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious Pakistan Law Review. Her articles have been published in the prestigious national and international law journals. Her paper ‘Judicialization of Politics and Governance in Pakistan’ has been published in Pakistan’s Stability Paradox: Regional and Institutional Concerns (Routledge:2011). She also contributed a chapter ‘Religion, Politics and the Dilemma of National Identity in Pakistan’ in the book Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge/Glasshouse:2010). 

Prof Assefa Fiseha is a leading expert in comparative federalism and devolution in Africa and has been engaged in teaching and research in higher education since 1996. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and a book related to these fields both in Ethiopia and reputable international journals. He has been engaged in constitution making processes and dialogues in several countries (Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Malawi). He has worked in joint research and training projects run by the Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg Germany), European Institute of Peace, the Forum of Federations (an international network of experts in Federalism based in Canada), Berghof Foundation (Germany), InterAfrica Group (Ethiopia) and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) among others. Previously, he has served as Dean of the Faculty of Law and designed MA/LL.M and PhD programs run by Addis Ababa University. He has served as a lead research team in different research projects both at Addis Ababa University and other partner research institutions based in South Africa, Canada and Switzerland.

Currently he is a Principal Investigator in a three year project (2020-2023) entitled ‘addressing the crisis of governance in the Horn of Africa’. It is a research project conducted together with the University of Aberdeen (UK) and partner institutions in South Africa. It has both research and capacity building activities and an edited book with ten chapters has just been published in September 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Governance-Challenges-in-the-Horn-of-Africa/Fombad-Fiseha-Steytler/p/book/9781032207926

Prof Hugo Rojas

Professor of Sociology of Law and Human Rights at Alberto Hurtado University in Chile and researcher at the Millennium Research Institute on Violence and Democracy. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, a masters in law, anthropology and society from the London School of Economics, a masters in public policy from Adolfo Ibáñez University, and is currently reading a doctorate in law and political science at the University of Salamanca. His research is interdisciplinary and focuses in the intersections between law, politics and society. His latest books are Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, with M. Shaftoe) and Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). His latest research is on “the rule of law and social uprisings”.

Rhona Smith joined Newcastle University in August 2016 as Professor of International Human Rights. She was Head of School from 2016 through to 2020. She has previously worked in various universities in the UK and held visiting positions at a number of institutions overseas. Her principal areas of interest are international human rights, human rights/civil liberties and public law. Much of her previous work has focussed on human rights capacity building in education and justice sectors.

Prof Wahab Olasupo Egbewole is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria having been called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985. He is Professor of Jurisprudence & International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

He is also the Editor of Education Law, Strategic Policy and Sustainable Development in Africa: Agenda 2063 https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319537023

MATIULLAH JAN

Masters in International Journalism, City University, London, UK (Chevening Scholar)

  • (1989-99) News Broadcaster (Radio Pakistan)(1991-92) Research Fellow Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI)
  • (1995-to date) Journalist (Court Reporter/TV Anchor) with The Frontier Post, NNI, PTV, Reuters, Dawn News, Nawaiwaqt Group (Waqt TV), MJtv (YouTube), Nai Baat Group (NeoTV)
  • (2011-23) Journalists union activist, contested National Press Club (NPC) elections as head of JAGO group
  • (2004-2007) Media law advisor/Journalism trainer, press freedom advocate at Internews Network
    • CURRENTLY WORKING 
  •  Host of prime time talk show “Sahafi” (Journalist) on Neo TV @ 10 PM, Monday to Thursday. Write weekly columns for this media groups Daily Urdu newspaper “Naibaat” on current issues2. Have a personal YouTube Channel “Matiullah Jan MJtv” – YouTube.Com/MatiullahjanMJtv with 210 K subscribers providing daily coverage of political and legal affairs live and recorded. Have a Twitter account with over 975K and FB page of over 170K followers.

He is currently focusing on the ongoing political, economic and judicial crisis. My main area of focus is the growing military interference into politics and economy of the country much to the detriment of democratic values which are necessary for normal growth of a civilised and democratic society.

I have always thought about finding ways and means to demilitarise Pakistani politics, economy and judiciary. This could only be done through creation of political will, public opinion, free press and independent judiciary something possible through a long term legal, political, social and an economic reforms plan. Currently Pakistan is fast moving towards an undemocratic dispensation due to false popular belief that democracy has failed. This happens in-spite of the fact that democracy was never allowed to perform in Pakistan. This public perception needs to be dispelled through an empirical research at the socio-political, legal and economic level. I always thought about a commission to do a comprehensive research focussing on past, present and future role of military in our society. The commission should also propose ways and means to categorically differentiate between our good and bad past, leaders thereof and suggest a way forward.

The “truth and reconciliation commission” can be a good start and a detailed research on its possible scope and manner of of work could provide a strong basis for what I may describe as redemocratization of a country like Pakistan. This will provide an evidence based truth to set the record straight about past, present and possible future of Pakistan. In the current situation Pakistan is facing it’s “now or never” for the 220 million Pakistanis.

Dr Masrur Salekin is an Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bangladesh Judiciary. He completed PhD in Law from the University of Galway, Ireland funded by the prestigious Hardiman Research Scholarship. Research topics include environmental justice, judicial activism, separation of powers, rule of law, and collaborative constitutionalism.

1. Chevening Scholar 2009- 2010, LLM in International Law and Development, University of Nottingham, UK

2. Adjunct Faculty, Academy of Business Professions (ABP), Dhaka International University (DIU), Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) & Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University (BSMRAAU)

Nurullah Gorgen is a Teaching Fellow at Durham University, where he is interested in Public Law and Comparative Law. He worked as a visiting lecturer in Public Law at King’s College London between 2019-2023 and as a Lecturer in Pre-University Summer School/Law course at King’s College London in 2022. 

He holds an LLB from Istanbul University, an LLM from the University of Reading and a PhD in Constitutional Law from the King’s College London. He was an Exchange Researcher at European University Institute. 

He adopts interdisciplinary and socio-legal approaches. His research focuses on comparative Constitutional Law and politics, particularly analysis and review of the Branches of Government and their relationship with politics.  

Research interests: 

Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, UK Constitutional Law, Turkish Law, Turkish politics, Human Rights Law, and Branches of Government. 

Majida S Ismael Holds a PhD in Law from University of Liverpool- England, LLM/MSc in law and BA in Law and Politics form University of Dohuk, Kurdistan –Iraq. She is currently a Research Fellow at Liverpool John Moores’ Law School. She has taught across a wide range of undergraduate and post graduate courses across the University of Dohuk’s Law School and the Polytechnic University of Dohuk including Constitutional Law, Labour and Social Security Law, and the Law of International Organisations, Human Rights and Children Rights, Civil Law.

She is a leading expert in Constitutional law and federalism in Iraq. Her research interests include constitutional law, the rule of law, transitional justice, multi-level governance, the right to self-determination, constitutionalism and judicialisation in emerging/ post conflict democracies. Majida has special interest in Judicialisation of politics and constitutionalism, federalism in developing and emerging democracies, and the constitutional courts’ position as regards application and the role of constitutional clauses on religion and would welcome any future collaboration. She has already published articles in King’ Law Journal (Judging Elections: The Constitutional Judiciary in Iraq’s Emerging Democracy).

Majida’s doctoral research examined political and constitutional developments in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. It assesses the role of the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq in dealing with the legal and constitutional outcomes of regime-change and transition to democracy. Her upcoming monograph which is based on her doctoral research (to be published by Hart publishers) entitled: The Judicialisation of Politics in Iraq: Courts, Transitional Democracy and The Rule of Law. The monograph will constitute the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Supreme Court, its judges and decisions and its role in democratic transition in the country. In addition to the monograph, Majida is co-authoring two different papers with two colleagues: first is judicialisation of secession in both Iraq and Spain (under review for publication). Second on Iraq’s perspectives on the establishment of accountability for international crimes committed in the context of the Iraq War.

Majida has regular publications for broader public audiences on constitutional and political developments in Iraq including in specific legal blogs e.g., I-CONnectblog (Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law), Kurdistan 24 Media Network; and her work has been republished by other blogs, such as, Metro Centre Journalist Rights & Advocacy.

She has given evidence-based consultations to a governmental committee on the ministerial level within the Kurdistan Regional Government, the constitutional drafting committee, on several proposed policies and constitutional reforms including further devolution of powers to the provinces within the Kurdistan Region.

Sophia Schroeder is a member of the Judicial Institute at University College London, where she is also completing her PhD. Her research focuses on the role of domestic courts for consociational systems of power-sharing and involves data collection through interviewing in Northern Ireland and Lebanon. She seeks to understand how courts react to consociations and the implications of their judgments for the broader political set-up.

Sophia was a Fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut and a Visiting Doctoral Student at the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (Queen’s University Belfast) in 2022. She was also a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace at Middlebury College (Arabic) in 2021.

Alongside her PhD, Sophia has taught on the Laws’ Connections module (Law and Homelessness) and has acted as a thesis advisor for LLM students and academic mentor for LLB students. In addition, she designed and taught an interdisciplinary course on her PhD topic for a mentorship programme, and coached LLM students at King’s College London for the international law and diplomacy competition ‘Day of Crisis’ (2018-2021).

Sophia holds an LLM as well as an MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies from King’s College London, a Maîtrise en Droit in International Law from Panthéon-Assas University/Paris II, and the German First State Examination in Law (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Prior to joining UCL, Sophia worked for the German federal civil service. Other professional experience includes internships with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin, the Legal Service of the German-Arab Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, and the European Parliament in Brussels.

Abureza M Muzareba completed his PhD from the University of Sheffield, England back in 2017. His PhD research was showcased and presented for the esteemed audiences of the Wellbeing Conference at the University of Oxford, England, and AAG Conference in Chicago, the USA. He has developed his interdisciplinary expertise by studying business, social science, and engineering. He has been in academia since 2004 and has been teaching at several prestigious academic institutions in Bangladesh. He also taught at the University of Sheffield in England, as a guest faculty. He has industry experience with HSBC Bangladesh, and research experience with USAID, IFPRI, the University of Sheffield, UK Cabinet Office, O2, Barnsley City Council, England, and Care Bangladesh. He also works as a reviewer for renowned academic publishers.

Dr. Shouvik Kumar Guha is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Law at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), India. He is the Co-Coordinator of the Centre for Financial and Regulatory Governance Studies and the Centre for Competition Laws, the Founder-Coordinator of the Centre for Law, Literature and Popular Culture, the Assistant Coordinator of the Centre for Law and Technology, and the Associate Director of the Centre for Aviation and Space Laws at NUJS. In 2019, a course designed by him, exploring the interface between law and fantasy fiction literature, has received international acclaim and global media coverage for being the first of its kind in the world. He also has the distinction of being a TEDx speaker, and a member of the global forum of Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART), the Network of Indian Competition Experts- Cartel Working Group (NICE-CWG) created by the Competition Commission of India, and the IP and Innovation Researchers of Asia Network (IPIRA). He is also a peer-reviewer for several national and international journals and has multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, edited volumes and conference papers to his credit. His areas of interest include Corporate and Financial Laws, Competition Law, Law and Technology (special focus on the interface between AI and Law), Aviation & Space Laws, and Law, Literature & Popular Culture.

He has also served in the past as the Director (Operations) of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA), as a contributor to Spicy IP, a premier academic blog on IP Law in India, a Research Assistant with the Ministry of HRD IP Chair at WBNUJS, a Mentor for BribeHackers (an organization engaged in anti-corruption campaigning under the aegis of the World Justice Forum), a Mentor and Trustee for LAWFARM (an organization engaged in facilitating pro-bono legal work and advice), and as an independent legal consultant.

Olum Lornah Afoyomungu is a feminist lawyer and writer from Uganda. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Makerere University, a Post-graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, and a Master of Laws in human rights and democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria. She has worked as a Legal Associate at Development Law Associates,  a Program Manager, Training and Curriculum Developer at the African Development Law Institute where her role involved the conceptualization, planning, and delivering seminars in the area of international law and development. She is currently a Program Associate at CivSource Africa, a Pan-African feminist grant-making organisation, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Through her scholarly works, she is committed to surfacing the African woman’s voice in international law and highlighting how international and national laws reproduce the marginalization of women. Her work has been published by the Makerere Law Journal, and the Global Campus of Human Rights, among others. 

JUSTICE (RTD) NKEMDILIM AMELIA IZUAKO

She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1977. She practiced law until 1982 when she became a magistrate in Nigeria. She became a judge of the High Court Anambra State, Nigeria in 1998. She worked as a judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal in the Gambia from 2004 – 2006. Throughout 2007, she conducted trainings for judicial officers in Nigeria on judicial ethics as a    consultant for UNODC. She worked in Solomon Islands as a judge of the High Court from 2008 – 2009. From July 2009 – July 2019, she worked as judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal. During her career on the bench, she taught part-time as a senior lecturer in law in both Nigeria and in the Gambia.

GEOGRAPHICAL CHAPTERS

MIDDLE EAST

  1. Dr Nurullah Gorgen, Teaching Fellow, School of Law, Durham University.
  2. Sophia Schroeder, PhD Candidate, Judicial Institute, University College London.
  3. Majida S Ismael, Research Fellow, Liverpool Hope University.
  4. Yoav Sivan, Independent Researcher, New York.

SOUTH ASIA

  1. Marva Khan is an Assistant Professor, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
  2. Prof Tasneem Kausar, Principal of the Pakistan College of Law.
  3. Dr Vikram Visana, Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Leicester.
  4. Dr Masrur Salekin, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bangladesh Judiciary.
  5. Dr Shouvik Kumar Guha is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Law at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India.
  6. Abureza M Muzareba, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka.

LATIN AMERICA

  1. Mauro Arturo Rivera, Assistant Professor, University of Silesia, Katowice.
  2. Prof Hugo Rojas, Professor of Sociology of Law and Human Rights at Alberto Hurtado University in Chile.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

  1. Prof Rhona Smith, School of Law, Newcastle University.
  2. Dr Moohyung Cho, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University, South Korea.

AFRICA

  1. Hakeem Yusuf, Prof of Global Law, School of Law, Derby University, UK.

2. Prof Assefa Fiseha, College of Law and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University.

3. Prof Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin.

THEMATIC CHAPTERS

  1. PEACE, CONFLICT, AND SECURITY
  2. HEALTH AND WELLBEING
  3. ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
  4. GENDER, MEDIA, AND MOVEMENTS
  5. POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMERCIAL/CORPORATE LAW
  6. ACCESS TO JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE RULE OF LAW
  7. LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

PUBLICATIONS :

1. Marva Khan, 2021, Special Courts in Pakistan, and a chapter on Accessible ICT as a Ray of Hope for Disability Rights in Pakistan, Global Review of Constitutional law. (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4285035)

2. Vikram Visana, 2022, Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in the Political Thought of Dadabhai Naoroji, Cambridge University Press.

GET INVOLVED

If you wish to be a partner of the network, you need to send your brief bio and/or consent to mention you as a network member to leicgsn@gmail.com . This will help us and others collaborate with you. As a partner you will be invited to participate in different activities (work in progress series, joint funding applications, guest lecture series, etc). You may also wish to use our network to showcase your research activities. There is a separate section within the network for professional development and impact-related activities of early-career researchers and prospective PhD students.