Global Justice and Research Centre

Join us for a season of world-class scholarship, advocacy, and global dialogue!

Venue: Richmond Building (LT2 and LT3), University of Portsmouth or online (the link will be sent prior to the event)

Programme of the day:

2:00pm - Welcome & GJR Centre’s Presentation by Prof. Leïla Choukroune (UoP) and GJR’s Team.

2:30pm - Book Launch: International Law and the Use of Indirect Force: The Legal Status of Proxy Wars by Dr. Chosen Udorji (UoP)

• Discussants: Prof. James Thuo Gathii (Loyola University Chicago) and Prof. Tarik Kochi (Sussex University)

3:30pm - Film screening, Limbo (2020) by Ben Sharrock

• Discussants: Dr. Yael Friedman-Silver (UoP) and Dr. Marianela Barrios Aquino (UoP)

5:45pm - Public Lecture by Prof. Surya Deva (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and Macquarie Law School)

Professor Leïla Choukroune, Director of the Global Justice and Rights Centre & Professor of International Law (UoP)

Professor Leïla Choukroune is a leading global expert in international law and the founding Director of the GJR Centre. Her work is interdisciplinary and rights based. It focuses on international trade, businesses and human rights, and the idea of justice with a unique expertise on the Global South. She has authored over 150 research articles and several reference books. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the JITLP, The Blue Economy Review, and of two book Series with Springer and Routledge. She is the co-Chair of the South Asian International Economic Network (SAIELN). A frequent media contributor, she is also a listed mediator and arbitrator

Professor James Thuo Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law (Loyola University Chicago)

Professor Gathii is a world-renowned expert in international law and a founding member of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) network. Between 2014 and 2022, he was on the Board of editors of the American Journal of International Law. He is a past Vice-President of the American Society of International Law. He has published extensively on international trade, governance, and human rights. He is co-editor in Chief of the African Journal of International Economic Law (AfJIEL), a founding Editor of Afronomicslaw and one of the convenors of the African Sovereign Debt Justice Network (AfSDJN)

Prof. Tarik Kochi, Professor of Legal and Political Theory (Sussex University)

Professor Tarik Kochi is a legal and political theorist working within the traditions of critical theory and the history of political thought. He is currently working on a book provisionally titled, Against Deception: The Radical Right, Populism and the Law, which looks at historical and contemporary issues in relation to the radical right and 'populism'. He is particularly interested in how parts of the radical right appropriate, mimic and repurpose what might be considered as normally 'left-wing' critiques of capitalism, globalisation, bureaucracy and identity politics. His previous books include: Global Justice and Social Conflict: The Foundations of Liberal Order and International Law (Routledge, 2019) and The Other’s War: Recognition and the Violence of Ethics (Birkbeck Law Press/Routledge, 2009).

Dr. Yael Friedman, Principal Lecturer in Film and Media (UoP)

Dr. Friedman is an expert in transnational cinema and documentary film, with a focus on cinema from the Middle East and its role in social and political change. She specialises in the intersection of film, human rights, and decoloniality. Dr. Friedman joins the May 22nd launch to curate and lead the screening and discussion of the film Limbo.

Dr Marianela Barrios Aquino, Postdoctoral Research Associate (UoP)

Dr Marianela Barrios’ thesis focused on affective citizenship and the naturalisation experiences of EU migrants in the UK in the context of Brexit. Her research interests include critical citizenship studies and decolonial theories in the context of migration research. She is also interested in creative methods and pedagogies

Professor Surya Deva, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development (UN and Macquarie University)

Professor Surya Deva is a leading global authority on businesses and human rights. In addition to his UN mandate, he is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School where he is Director of the Environmental Law Research Centre and the Business and Human Rights Justice Lab. He has advised numerous international organisations on the intersection of corporate responsibility and human rights. He has published extensively and his reports have been widely cited including by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. His work focuses on ensuring development is equitable, sustainable, and rights based.

In Partnership with The UN Human Rights Council, Special Procedures, Declaration on the Right to Development 40th Anniversary

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