Law & Society Association annual meeting in San Juan

The annual meeting on Law and Society is taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 1-4, 2023. The theme for this years conference is how the law normalises discrimination and inequalities in unincorporated territories, such as Puerto Rico.

Several LawTransform colleagues and friends will be attending and presenting at the conference, and some of them have asked us to promote their sessions. Information about the topic they will be presenting, as well as when they will be presenting can be found below and in the program for the conference.

Lívia Buzolin – LawTransform panel on a South-South Perspective

Lívia coordinates LawTransforms South-South Network. This network gives a voice to scholars from the Global South researching the Global South. Other scholars that are a part of this network and will be sharing their perspectives are:

Lívia will also be presenting her paper: LGBTIQ Rights in Brazil and Colombia: Contextualizing Attacks and Resistances

  • Panel: Autocratic Legalism II
  • Date/Time: 2nd of June 8am-9:45am
  • Place: Wave Wing – 2nd Floor: Magüey, Caribe Hilton

Siri Gloppen Legalized resistance to autocratization in Common Law Africa

  • Panel: Multi-Sited Dynamics of Autocratization and Resistance
  • Date/time: 2nd of June at 4:45pm-6:30pm
  • Place: The Gran Salón Los Rosales, Caribe Hilton

Siri will also be chairing the panel on legal processes, narratives and ESC rights. 

  • Date/time: 3rd of June at 4:45pm-6:30pm
  • Place: Beach Wing – Conference Center 6, Caribe Hilton

Namita Wahi – The legal Regime and Political Economy of Autocratisation in India

  • Panel: Multi-Sited Dynamics of Autocratization and Resistance.
  • Date/time: 2nd of June at 4:45pm-6:30pm
  • Place: The Gran Salón Los Rosales

Evelyn Villarreal What Is Missing After 30 Years of Judicialization of Water Rights? The Response of the Constitutional Court in Costa Rica Analyzed From the Lenses of Automatized Research Techniques

  • Panel: Inequalities of Climate Change
  • Date/time: 3rd of June at 4:45pm-6:30pm
  • Place: Garden Wing – San Cristóbal G, Caribe Hilton

Angela Paez – Local Mechanisms for Water Governance: Community Managed Water Plants in Latin America 

  • Panel: Socioeconomic rights (SER) and sustainability
  • Date/time: 2nd of June at 8:00am-9:45am
  • Place: Gran Salón Los Rosales, Caribe Hilton

If you are speaking at the conference and would like you topic to be include in this overview, you are welcome to send an email to emily.fawcett-ellis@lawtransform.no