Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Former Public Policy Scholar
Term
September 1, 2006 — December 1, 2006
Professional affiliation
Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Wilson Center Projects
Guardians at the Gates: Imperial Judiciaries and the Turn to Rights
Full Biography
Subjects
Development,Human Rights,International Law
Expertise
International law; human rights; sustainable development
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