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Michael Fakhri Editor & Author

Luis Eslava is Senior Lecturer in International Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical International Law at Kent Law School. He is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, International Professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia and core faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. He is the author of Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development (2015) and the co-editor of Imperialismo y Derecho Internacional (with Liliana Obregón and René Urueña, 2016). He is an active member of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) network. Michael Fakhri teaches in the areas of international economic law, law and development, and food and agriculture at the University of Oregon. His research interests include Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), international legal history, and legal accounts of imperialism. He has given talks at Harvard Law School, Princeton University, New Jersey, Brown University, Rhode Island, Cornell University, New York, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cambridge, the American University of Beirut, and the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Sugar and the Making of International Law (Cambridge, 2014). Vasuki Nesiah teaches human rights, legal and social theory at New York University and at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. She has published widely on the history and politics of human rights, humanitarianism, international criminal law, international feminisms and colonial legal history. A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she continues as an active participant in this network. She serves on the international editorial committees of Feminist Legal Studies and the London Review of International Law.