International Law expert Dr Luis Eslava discusses urban law, cities, globalisation, finance and the global order during an interview given at the annual Transnational Law Summer Institute (TLSI) at King’s College London.
Dr Eslava also speaks about the work of Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos in the interview conducted by Transnational Law Institute Research Fellow Stephen Minas. Professor de Sousa Santos’s lecture ‘Can Law Be Emancipatory? 20 Years Later’, was delivered on the second day of the TLSI.
The annual TLSI is a 12-day workshop for advanced doctoral students and early-career legal academics and is hosted by the Dickson Poon School of Law. This year’s Institute featured focus-workshops on reading and writing as well as teaching at the interdisciplinary boundaries of law and globalization, along with selected theme lectures and two full days of engaging with a seminal text in context. The Institute is aimed at providing early career scholars with a first-hand opportunity to submit their ideas on research, teaching as well as possible forms of civic engagement to collegial feedback, both from their peers and from established, world-renowned experts.
Dr Eslava, a lecturer in international law at Kent Law School, was one of 52 TLSI Fellows from 27 countries who attended the event. In addition to international law, Dr Eslava works in the areas of: international legal theory and history; anthropology of international law; public law, law and development; theory of property; and urban law and politics.
His research focuses on the relationship between international and domestic legal orders, and the effects of this relationship both on jurisprudential understanding of these areas of law, and on the constitution of everyday life in today’s global order.
Dr Eslava’s most recent book Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development was published by Cambridge University Press last month.
Dr Eslava is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, an International Professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia, and Junior Faculty at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. For more information about his research and publications, visit his staff profile page.