Academic Partners (in the Global South)

The research group prioritizes joint research and collaborative teaching with Global South higher education and non-academic institutes and with legal scholars from non-Western legal traditions. Our members have academic contacts and joint research projects in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, DR Congo, India, Indonesia, Lesotho, Peru, South Africa, and more.

Priority partners

The Law and Development research group has five priority partners, with whom it also cooperates closely for its Sustainable Development and Global Justice teaching programme:

• The National Law University (NLU) Delhi (India)
• The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) (Peru)
• The Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria (South Africa)
• ​Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” University of Padua
• ​The University of Eastern Finland​

Research collaboration

• Collaboration in research and teaching has been initiated with Nelson Mandela University (South Africa).
• Memorandum of understanding with the National University of Lesotho's Faculty of Law.
• In 2024, the LDRG, with the Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Birzeit University, initiated the collaborative joint research project "Emancipatory Human Rights". Through conceptual exploration, developing policy briefs on the influence of colonial dynamics on human rights in Palestine, research, and student exchange, this project explores methods of utilizing human rights for emancipatory purposes and addresses strategies to safeguard human rights from colonial exploitation.