PEOPLE

LDC Chair

Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at UoW Law School

Radha D’Souza research interests include International Law & Development; Third World Approaches to International Law; Global and Social justice; Social Movements; Law, Colonialism and Imperialism; Science, Technology & Society Studies; Resource conflicts in the Third World; Comparative Philosophy and Social Theory. Radha practiced as barrister at the High Court of Mumbai. She is a social justice activist, a writer, critic and commentator. She has worked with social movements in India, New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific region and international global justice movements.
Twitter: @radhadsouza

LDC Member

Senior Lecturer at UoW Business School

Dr. Angelica de Freitas e Silva research interests includeEnergy related  Decolonial Approaches, Epistemologies, and Methodologies; Environmental Justice; Global and Social Justice, Social Movements, Resource Conflicts in the Global South. She has a background as a construction lawyer in Brazil. Since 2016, she holds the post of Senior Lecturer in Construction Law at the University of Westminster Business School. Angelica finished her PhD from the university of Westminster Law School in 2019.
Twitter: @FreitasAngel

LDC Associate Member

Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex

Dr Adrija Dey is currently a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. She was previously a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at the SOAS Department of Development Studies. Her research is titled Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Indian Universities: A Study of Campus Life, Student Activism, and Institutional Responses. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature and draws from media, gender studies, politics, and development studies specifically looking at feminist digital activism, activist media practices, cyberconflict and surveillance, social movements, SGBV, intersectionality and decolonising methodologies. She has been a vocal campaigner against SGBV in Higher Education and part of campaigns such as Account for This. She is also a political activist organising with anti-capitalist and anti-fascist groups from a feminist, internationalist and intersectional ideological perspective.

Twitter: @adrijadey

LDC Member

Visiting Lecturer at UoW Law School

Shailza is a visiting lecturer at the Westminster Law School, UoW. She is pursuing her PhD at the University of Exeter at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies researching women in the Maoist movement in India. Her research is informed by feminist methodology, activist practice, and work with women’s networks such as Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression in India. Her research and academic interests lie at the intersection of gender and women’s rights, legal theory, carceral studies, social movements, and contemporary Indian politics. Shailza is also an editor at the Detention Solidarity Network, which is an online space to critically engage with the structures and experiences of detention that constitute the carceral state in India.

Twitter: @chaigaram_kadak

LDC Associate Member

PhD Candidate in Cultural Social History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais

João Carvalho is a popular educator, historian, communist activist and podcaster. He has a Major in History and a Minor in Languages (Ancient Greek and Latin), completed his MA in Social History at the University of São Paulo and is currently a PhD candidate in Cultural Social History at the University of Minas Gerais where he researches the works of Frantz Fanon and its relations with the anticolonial processes of Africa and Asia. João is an associate member of LDC, a contributor to the forthcoming book Decolonizing Then and Now and a participant of the Brazilian efforts to build the Lives and Labor Project. He’s also a member of the Brazilian Foreign Service where he was the founder of SINDITAMARATY – the union that represents the diplomatic civil servants of Brazil – as well as its first president.

Twitter: @assimdisseojoao

LDC Associate Member

PhD Candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School

Igor Viana is PhD candidate at the Law School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he integrates the collective project on “Philosophy of Power and Radical Thinking” and coordinates the research group on “Politics of Performativity”. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Westminster University and member of the Law & Theory Lab. His research interests include perfomativity, biopolitics, biopower, bodies, subjectivities, law, space and festival urban acts.

Twitter: @IgorVia72073342

LDC Member

PhD Candidate at UoW Law School

PhD candidate in Law at the University of Westminster, with a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Law from the Rio de Janeiro State University. In his current research, he has been studying the contributions of Amerindian perspectives for thinking political ecology, cosmopolitics, and the ways how we shape societies in a non-anthropocentric approach. He develops interdisciplinary research that spans the fields of political philosophy, anthropology, law and literature, addressing issues such as contemporary capitalism, technology, political practices and theoretical contributions from literature to the law. In his master’s degree, he researched how João Guimarães Rosa’s novel, Grande Sertão: Veredas, allows us to think politics and justice from a set of relationships of conflicting and unstable forces. As an essayist and poet, he published the poetry book O Cólera A Febre (Urutau publisher, 2018, Brazil) and many poems and essays in several magazines.
Twitter: @babilepton

LDC Member

Visiting Lecturer at UoW Business School

Gustavo Espinoza holds a BSc in Business and Information Technology, and an MSc in Mining Engineering. His research interests are centered on topics related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the formation of social partnerships between private companies and civil society. Since 2015, Gustavo holds the post of Visiting Lecturer at the Westminster Business School, teaching modules related CSR, business ethics, sustainable business and corporate strategy at an undergraduate and master levels.
Twitter: @tavoer8

LDC Member

PhD Candidate at UoW Law School

Ahmad Wahed’s research interests include international human rights law, Islamic family law, rule of law, social justice, and women’s rights in Afghanistan. His previous work experiences in the field of law include Volterra Fietta; a global elite law firm and Leigh Day LL. P in London, United Kingdom.

Ahmad graduated with an LLM in International law from the University of Westminster Law School in 2014, and is currently a PhD candidate at the UoW Law School.

LDC Member

PhD candidate at UoW Law School

Arianny research interests include Public International Law, Territorial and Boundary Disputes, Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes. She is a Lawyer from Venezuela. She Graduated in 2012 and practiced in commercial, labour and civil areas if the law. She holds an LLM in International & Commercial Dispute Resolution Law with merits from the University of Westminster. Arianny is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Westminster Law School.
Twitter: @AriannySeijo

LDC Member

Reader at UoW Law School

Aurora Voiculescu is a Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights scholar in the Westinster Law School. Aurora’s research is situated at the intersection between the human rights discourse and global challenges such as transnational business activities, digital technology, development. The notions of agency and responsibility, as shared by law with the social discourses of business and technology, represent an important point of theoretical focus in her work.
Twitter: @AuroraVoicules

LDC Member

Principal Lecturer at UoW Dep. of Politics and International Relations

Farhang Morady is Principal Lecturer in International Relations and Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Westminster. Dr Morady is the founder of Democratic Education Network in the School of Social Sciences. He has 25 years of experience working in an inner-city college and different universities in the UK including London School Economics and the University of Westminster. He has won numerous awards for his contribution to learning, teaching and supporting students.

LDC Member

Senior Lecturer at UoW Law School

LLB, LLM, TEP, MCIArb, FHEA, solicitor (now with SRA non-practising status) is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Westminster.  He taught for some ten years on the Law School’s Legal Practice Course. He created the MA in Conflict Prevention, Dispute Resolution and the LLM in International & Commercial Dispute Resolution Law courses for the University, and continues to be the course leader of that LLM course. He currently teaches one undergraduate module (Adjudication and ADR), and is leader of these postgraduate modules: International Commercial Arbitration; Foreign Direct Investment Arbitration; Multinational Corporate Entities and Foreign Investment; Perspectives on Peace, Conflicts and Disputes; Peace Processes and Law; and International and Transnational Dispute Processes.