About

Ruben is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw) of UGent. In his research, he develops critical perspectives on the intersection of refugee, human rights and international law. His work focusses on inter-state asylum policies, regional dynamics in the EU and Africa, and the lived experiences of migrants. He practiced before as a migration and asylum lawyer and worked in various Belgian non-profits and for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). He is a co-founder of NANSEN, the Belgian Refugee Council.

Katre Luhamaa holds a Ph.D. in Law. Her field of expertise include Child Rights, Law and Legal Studies, Human Rights and Democracy, EU and European Studies, and Legal Theory. Her research focuses on international law, EU law and human rights, and in particular children’s rights. She has previously worked as a researcher at the Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, University of Bergen.

Illan Wall joined the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the Galway Law School in 2024. Previously he was a Professor of Law in the University of Warwick and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. He is a founding editor of criticallegalthinking.com and an editor of the journal Law and Critique. He researches on questions f critical legal theory, human rights and the right to protest in particular.

David Diallo is a Profesor of American Civilisation at the University of Bordeaux. He works on issues around race, law and politics in the USA. He is author of Collective Participation and Audience Engagement in Rap Music (Palgrave 2019).

Prof Pistor is a German legal scholar. She is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches corporate law, law and development, and law and finance. She co-directs Columbia University’s Center for Political Economy.

Professor Golder is based at the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the Faculty of Law + Justice at University of New South Wales. His work is situated at the intersection of critical legal theory, contemporary political theory, and critical engagements with international law and human rights.

Jannice Käll holds a PhD in Legal Theory and is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Law at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, Sweden. Her work and teaching concern critical theory of law and society with a focus on feminist legal studies, new materialist theories, intellectual property theory, digitalization and AI. Her current research project focuses on vulnerability in the automation of the welfare state.

Dr Tzouvala is an Associate Professor at University of New South Wales. Her work focuses on the history, theory and political economy of international law. She is especially interested in historical materialism, deconstruction, feminist and queer legal theory. Her first monograph, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Cosmin is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Ghent, where he leads the ERC CoG project EMERGE. His research focuses on genealogies of law and politics with specific reference to twentieth-century continental legal history.