Prof Radha D'Souza

Prof Radha D'Souza

Radha DSouza B.A (Philosophy, University of Mumbai), LLB (University of Mumbai) and PhD (Geography and Law, University of Auckland). Radha practiced as a barrister in the High Court of Bombay and taught at the Universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand before coming to University of Westminster. Radha is a writer, critic and commentator on Third World issues and a social justice activist.

Roles

  • Impact Case Studies Lead REF2028
  • UoA 18 Law REF2021 Lead
  • Convenor, Law Development and Conflict Research Group
  • Senior Fellow, HEA
  • Member, Peer Review College, AHRC
  • Member, Peer Review College, ESRC
  • Member of Selection Panel for Core Program of Camargo Foundation, for artists, scholars, and thinkers located in Cassis, France.
  • Executive Member, the Scientific Committee of the Monique & Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law.

  • Socio-legal studies and sociology of law
  • International law and development
  • Law, Security and Development
  • Global and Social justice, Social Movements and Social Change
  • Third World Approaches to International Law
  • Law, Colonialism and Imperialism
  • Comparative Philosophy and Theory
  • Water and Land conflicts in the Third World
  • Law, Science and Society in the Third World


Sustainable Development Goals
In brief

Research areas

International Law and Development, Third World Approaches to International Law, Socio-legal Studies and Sociology of Law, Social Movements and Social Change, Colonialism and Imperialism, Comparative Philosophy and Theory, Resource Conflicts (Water and Land) in the Third World, Science, Technology and Third World Societies, International Organisations and International Law, South Asian History and Art and Society

Skills / expertise

I am an activist scholar, public intellectual, philosopher, writer and critic. I work across disciplines including Legal Studies, Development Studies, Human Geography, Sociology, South Asian History, Colonial and Neocolonial Studies, International Relations and Politics, Art and Media Studies and Social Theory

Supervision interests

I am interested in supervising research in any field in Social Sciences and Humanities that seeks to develop radical and innovative critique that challenges the existing international paradigms in law, institutions and theory from the standpoint of the Third World in particular, International Law and Development, International Institutions, Social Movements , Science, Technology and Society in the Third World, Resource Conflicts in the Third World, (Neo)Colonialism, Imperialism and the Third World, Epistemology, Comparative Philosophy and the Third World and Art and Society