Upcoming Events:
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Dr. Brenna Bhandar |
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Professor Matiangai Sirleaf |
March 19th, 2025 from 12:00PM to 1:50PM in the Don Rodzik Moot Court | TBA | TBA |
Upcoming Visiting Scholars:
Professor Matiangai Sirleaf
Professor Matiangai Sirleaf is an interdisciplinary international scholar, justice seeker, and human rights advocate who has worked to unearth unjust hierarchies embedded in international law and to remedy the inequities that emerge and persist. She is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Previous Visiting Scholars:
Dr. Amaya Alvez Marin
Dr. Amaya Alvez' Faculty Lecture took Place on September 18th, 2024 in the Law Moot Court
Dr. Amaya Alvez is a Full Professor of the Department of Public Law and the Department of History and Philosophy of Law at the University of Concepción - Chile.
She has been teaching and researching at the University of Concepción since 1998. She holds a PhD from York University (2011), a LLM from the University of Toronto (2007) both in Canada, and a LLB from the University of Concepción in Chile (1995).
She has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School and Law School at the University of Windsor in Ontario. She also teaches at the Summer School of the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
Her main research areas are Theory of Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, International Human Rights Law as a source of Internal Constitutional Order and Constitutional Justice.
She has published more than thirty articles or book chapters. As part of her research, she has coordinated interdisciplinary research.
Dr. Alvez works with Indigenous Mapuche communities over ancestral waters and territories.
In 2021 Amaya Alvez was elected as a member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. Her work at the Constitutional Convention was focused on political decentralization, fundamental right to water and recognition of ancestral rights of Indigenous peoples.
Currently she serves two National Commissions, one as a member of the Chilean Commission for the National Policy on Decentralization (2024-2025) and, another as a member of the Scientific Committee on Climate Change in charge of providing national guidelines on public decisions (2024-2025).
Dr. Robert Knox
Dr. Robert Knox's Faculty Lecture took Place on October 16th, 2024 in the Law Moot Court
Robert Knox is a Senior Lecturer in Law, at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. He is an editor of the journals Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and the London Review of International Law.