Sundhya Pahuja
Sundhya Pahuja is ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor and Professor of International Law at the University of Melbourne. She is the Director of the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law. Her full profile is available here.
Adil Hasan Khan
Dr Adil Hasan Khan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the LPGCIL. His research seeks to examine different traditions and modalities of legal education and to describe and recover repertoires of training in living well with authority, with others, and their laws. He completed his PhD in International Studies, with a specialisation in International Law and a minor in Anthropology and Sociology of Development, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva (2010-2016). He has been a Senior Research Fellow with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at MLS (2021-2022), a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at MLS (2017-2020), a Residential Institute Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School (2016-2017), and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna (2015-2016), and a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton University (mid-2023). His full profile is available here.
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The Making of (Colonial) Bureaucracies and the travel of Management Training.
This monograph seeks to trace the emergence and travel of management training, from the institutions of indirect rule in mid-19th century British India, to the rise and dissemination of management studies in early to mid 20th century United States, and its reception back within postcolonial bureaucracies through the globalisation of New Public Management (NPM) since the 1990s.
André Dao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
André Dao is is a research fellow with the ARC Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law at the Melbourne Law School. He was previously a PhD candidate at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, also at the Melbourne Law School. His PhD research focused on the intersections between international human rights law and digital data technologies. He is also a creative writer of fiction and non-fiction.
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The Birth & Re-Birth of the Multinational Corporation: IBM and Dreams of Third World Modernities
This research project is concerned with the parallel expansion of computing technology and ‘multinational’ corporations through the Global South. Taking International Business Machines (IBM) as a central case study, the project critically interrogates the idea that the travel southwards of such such corporations was facilitated by, and carried forward, ‘modernisation’. The project does so through an examination of competing and complementary imaginaries of modernity: on the one hand, that carried by IBM as it set up operations in Chile, Indonesia and India, and on the other hand, the Third World dreams of modernity that IBM encountered as it travelled. In doing so, the project aims to understand how the encounter between these imaginaries shaped the production, movement and evolution of a legal form: the high-technology multinational corporation.
Tim Connor
Senior Research Fellow (Fractional)
Dr Tim Connor is a socio-legal scholar with expertise in corporate law, corporate social responsibility and social movements. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (Australia), where he has worked since 2010. From 1995 until 2010 he worked for Oxfam Australia, coordinating research, campaigns and advocacy regarding workers’ rights in global supply chains. Tim’s educational qualifications include a PhD in Economic Geography (UoN), a Bachelor of Laws (UNSW) and a Bachelor of Arts (USyd). A list of Tim’s publications can be found at https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/tim-connor#publications.
Caitlin Murphy
Research Associate
Caitlin’s work supporting the Laureate Program draws on her research interests in international law, extraction, and the politics of commodity transport in the green economy. Outside of this, Caitlin is a Ph.D. Candidate with Melbourne Law School where she works on lithium and international law.
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Haris Jamil
Research Associate
Haris’s work focuses on international law, particularly the doctrine of sources and third-world approaches to international law.
Haris is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Melbourne Law School. His doctoral thesis looks at the history of the concept of state practice in international law.
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Gabrielle Dalsasso
Program Manager
Provides high-level support in order to ensure effective administration of the program and assisting the team to achieve its objectives.
Tanvee Nandan
PhD Candidate
Tanvee is a PhD student at the ARC Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law at Melbourne Law School. . Her research seeks to understand the legislative history of corporate laws in India from their early inception to their current iteration with a focus on the impact of colonisation by the English East India Company on the development of corporate laws.
Tanvee is an Associate Professor (on leave) at OP Jindal Global University, where she has worked since 2017 as part of Jindal Global Law School. She has taught alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and corporate law to undergraduate and graduate students as well as elective courses on Informal Justice Systems: An alternative perspective on access to justice, Reconfiguring Corporate Laws: Emotion and Ethic in the Corporate Realm and Ethics in International ADR. Outside of work, Tanvee enjoys singing, writing, traveling and is most-commonly found with her nose in a book.
Michael Bader
PhD Candidate
Michael is a PhD candidate in the ARC Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law and at Melbourne Law School. His PhD thesis investigates the corporation as a creator of norms rather than its receiver, focusing on corporate authority and influence at international institutions. Michael holds an LLM from SOAS, University of London and a first law degree from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Before joining the Laureate Program for his PhD journey, Michael worked as a legal advisor in the NGO sector in Berlin.
Yilin Wang
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow (March - August, 2023)
Yilin Wang is a post-doctoral researcher funded by the Swiss National Foundation. She conducts research in the Laureate program with respect to Chinese foreign investment law and overseas expansion of Chinese companies. She completed her doctoral degree in the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Her doctoral thesis studied the state practices of the non-intervention principle in the United Nations between 1945 and 2020. She has a wide interest in socio-legal studies and is keen on applying socio-legal methods and a critical third-world approach to understanding international law.
Christopher Gevers
Visiting Fellow
20 March - 29 March, 2023
6 - 15 September 2023
6 - 12 November 2024
Christopher teaches international law, human rights and legal theory in the School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research focusses on Third World Approaches to International Law, Critical Race Theory, and Law and Literature. Since 2015 he has been a faculty member of the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School, and has been a visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and Harvard Law School. His most recent publications appear in the UCLA Law Review, the Journal of International Economic Law and AJIL Unbound. Christopher is a member of the Editorial Board of the South African Journal of Human Rights.
Anastasiya Kotova
Visiting Fellow (27 March - 31 March, 2023)
Anastasiya Kotova is a PhD candidate at Lund University, Sweden, where she also teaches international criminal law and public international law. Her doctoral project focuses on corporate criminal responsibility debate in international criminal law. Her research interests, in addition to international criminal law, revolve around general international law and Marxist approaches to international law.
Jeremy Baskin
Honorary Fellow
Jeremy Baskin’s current research focus is on expertise, policy-making and changing understandings of the authority of science. He has previously worked on climate policy and solar geoengineering, on the notion of the Anthropocene, and on Corporate Social Responsibility. He is join co-ordinator of a cross-faculty network of Science, Technology & Society (STS) scholars at the University STS@UoM.
He has a PhD in Politics from the University of Melbourne. He also has degrees from the University of London and the University of Cape Town. He has been a Fellow of the Program on Science, Technology & Society (STS) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, a Director at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne School of Government.
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Ann Apps
Honourary Fellow
Ann teaches and researches at the University of Newcastle on the impact of law and regulatory policy on the development and growth of co-operative enterprise in Australia.
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Işil Aral
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow (24 July - 15 September 2023)
Işil Aral is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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