Professional Affiliation

Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusettes Institute of Technology

Expert Bio

 

 

Subjects

 

 

Development,Human Rights,International Law

 

Expertise

International law; human rights; sustainable development

Wilson Center Project

Guardians at the Gates: Imperial Judiciaries and the Turn to Rights

Major Publications

• "Counter-hegemonic International Law: Rethinking Human Rights and Development as a Third World Strategy," Third World Quarterly 27, no.5 (forthcoming)
• "International Law and the Third World,' coeditor with Richard Falk and Jackie Stevens, Special Issue of Third World Quarterly 27, no.5 (2006)
• International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2003), translated into Spanish by the Latin American Institute for Alternative Legal Services (ILSA), Colombia, 2005; South Asia edition, 2005, by Foundation Press