Dr. Radha D’Souza

Radha D'Souza

Position Reader in Law

Department Postgraduate Legal Studies

Email R.Dsouza1@wmin.ac.uk

Tel 0207 911 5000 ext 2708

Fax 0207 911 5821

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Responsibilities

Deputy Director, School Research Centre
Chair, School Research Ethics Committee
Member, University Research Ethics sub-Committee
Member, AHRC Peer Review College
Module Leader LLM International Law and Development
Lecturer in LLB Public International Law

Teaching and Research Interests

Socio-legal studies and sociology of law.
International law and development.
Global and social justice, social movements and social change.
Law in developing countries
Law, colonialism and imperialism

Biography

Radha D’Souza received her BA and LLB degrees from University of Bombay, India and was awarded a PhD in Geography and Law by University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has practiced as a barrister in the High Court of Bombay and taught at the Universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand. She is a free lance writer and social justice activist.

Recent Publications

Books

Interstate Conflicts Over Krishna Waters: Law, Science and Imperialism’, Hyderabad: Orient Longmans Pvt. Ltd, (560 pages, 24 maps, 43 tables, 3 fig, bibliography, index) 2006.

Commissioned Research Papers

“Experiences of Protection Orders for Women in Aotearo/New Zealand”, for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Government of New Zealand (2007)

Journal Articles

The Prison Houses of Knowledge: Activist Scholarship And Revolution in the Era of “Globalisation”’ McGill Journal of Education 2009 Vol 44: 1 Fall, p. 1-20.

‘Liberal Theory, Human Rights and Water-Justice: Back to Square One?’ (Oct 2008) 1 Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal October, 2008 p. 1-15.

Ein Blick in die Kristallkugel: 'Zivilgesellschaft' und 'Humanitat' im 21 Jahrhundret: Polylog: Zeitschrift Fur Interkulturelles Philosopheren Vol 18: 55-62, 2007 (‘Looking Into the Crystal Ball: “Civil Society” and “Humanity” in the 21^st Century’: Polylog: Journal of Intercultural Philosophy: vol 18 p. 55-62, 2007)

‘The 'Third World' and Socio-legal Studies: Neo-liberalism and Lessons from India's Legal Innovations’: Social & Legal Studies vol4 No 4 (2005) p. 487-513.

‘Colonial Law And The Tungabhadra Disputes: Lifting The Veil Over The Agreement of 1892: Natural Resources Journal Volume 45, #2, 2005, pages 311-344.

‘The Democracy-Development Tension In Dam Projects:The Long Hand Of The Law, Political Geography Vol. 23, Issue 6, August (2004) p. 701-730.

'At the Confluence of Law and Geography: Inter-State Water Disputes in India', Geoforum, vol.33, Issue 2, (2002) p. 255-269.

Book Chapters

Law and ‘Development' Discourses About Water: Understanding Agency in Regime Changes" in P. Cullet, U. Ramanathan et al (Eds) Water Law at the Crossrods in India: National and International Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2009 forthcoming).

‘Nation vs Peoples: Inter-state Water Disputes in India's Supreme Court’ in Iyer, Ramaswamy R., (ed.), Water and the Laws in India p. 58-93 (Sage: India, 2009) ISBN 9788178298504

‘Water Resources Development and Water Conflicts in Two Indian Ocean States’ in Timothy Doyle and Melissa Risely (eds) “Regional Security and the Environment in the Indian Ocean Region”, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey and London 2008 p. 157-170.

‘Re-envisioning Transboundary Water Disputes as Development Conflicts’ in Dennis Rumley and Sanjay Chaturvedi (editors), Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism And Security In The Indian Ocean, New Delhi, South Asian Publishers (2004) p. 172-193.

‘Global Commons: But Where is the Community’: in Robert P Yagelski and Rober K Miller (editors) ‘The Informed Argument’ Thomson/Wadsworth: 6^th edition: (2004) p. 370-373.

'International Law, Recolonizing the Third World? Law and Conflicts Over Water In The Krishna River Basin', in: Law, History And Colonialism: Empire’s Reach: Diane Kirkby and Catherine Colborne (eds.), Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press (2001), p. 243-260.

Refereed, published conference proceedings

‘Imperialism without National Self-Determination? Emancipation in the Age of Globalisation’ SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE HUMAN CIVILIZATION IN THE 21^st CENTURY An International Seminar on the Centenary of Hind Swaraj 12 – 14 February 2009 Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi 110003

‘Imperialism and The Right Of Nations To Self Determination: Revisiting The Nexus’ seminar at Centre for Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham 12 May 2008.

Networks: Imperialisms’ World After Its Own Image’ presentation at seminar on 'Against the Flow: Critical Realism and Critiques of Contemporary Social Thought', paper presented at a seminar organised by Centre for Critical Realism at SOAS, 5 April 2008.

‘Socio-Legal Studies in the Third World’: paper presented at the SLSA conference, Manchester 18-20 March 2008.

‘Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of ‘Social Movements’, paper presented at the Critical Geography Conference hosted by International Critical Geography Group & Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai 3-5 December 2007.

‘Codification, Cartography and the making and remaking of Empires’, paper presented at the Critical Legal Conference hosted by Birkbeck University of London from 14-16 September 2007.

‘Imperial Agendas, Global Solidarities and Socio-legal Scholarship in the ‘Third World' ‘International Conference on Law and Society in the 21st Century’ organised by LSA/RCSL conference in Berlin, May 2007.

Non-refereed articles

‘What’s wrong with Rights?’ Seedling October 2007 p. 17-20.

‘Paradoxes of Asian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Reflections on Knowing Asia’ Asia Pacific Cultural Studies No 001 December 2004 www.apcsjournal.org

'Hardt & Negri's "Multitude": A Treatise on How to Recolonise the World?' No 15, XCP Cross Cultural Poetics MN, USA (November 2004).

‘The World Social Forum Revisited: Back to Basics?’ XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics: No 14: (2004) p.42-45., MN, USA.

‘Sustainable Development or Self-Determination? Asking the Hard Questions about the WSSD’, in Social Policy, Fall, Vol 34, No 4, (2002), Fall, Pacifica, CA, USA

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