Kent Law School Professor Toni Williams is in Colombia this week to speak about gender, finance and law in developing countries.
Professor Williams will deliver her talk at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota on Wednesday as part of the Conferencia Nuevas Tecnologías. Her research expertise in the fields of consumer finance regulation, social and financial inclusion, economic development and gambling regulation is recognised across the world; previously, she has been invited to speak by universities and NGOs in Brazil, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, Australia and the United States.
Professor Williams’s work draws on diverse analytical frameworks, including critical and institutional economic analyses of law, socio-legal theory, feminist theory and critical race theory. The unifying theme of her work is its deployment of contextualized methods to conduct systematic critical analysis of law’s relationships with social justice.
Most recently, Professor Williams co-led a three-year Inclusionary Practices research project exploring social and economic inclusion policies in Europe, Latin America and the digital domain. The project, funded by a £26k grant from the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Scheme was co-led with Professor Fabricio Polido from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It concluded with a final workshop in Brussels last year.
