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La Trobe appoints new lead for law school
La Trobe University has appointed a new lead of its law school’s research group on international law and global transformation.
Abhranil Hazra
Professor Luis Eslava is expected to commence his new role in October 2023. He brings an extensive background in ethnographic, historical and socio-legal approaches to chart the global legal, political and economic order.
“Professor Eslava is a scholar of global repute who will offer significant leadership and expertise to the law school’s burgeoning international law research group,” said Professor Kelly.
“He will make a significant contribution to the school’s strategic objective to become a leading centre of scholarship on international law and global transformation, and the challenges we are collectively facing in the 21st century.”
Professor Eslava joins from his previous role at the University of Kent, where he served as the co-director of the Centre of Critical International Law (CeCIL).
He plans on retaining his connection with the Kent Law School as part of La Trobe Law school’s international outreach, planning to open up new opportunities in terms of research collaboration in staff and student mobility.
“I’m privileged to be joining La Trobe Law School, which has brought under a single institutional umbrella a stellar group of international legal scholars dedicated to understanding some of today’s most pressing global issues and the current transformation of our existence on this planet,” Professor Eslava said.
“Joining La Trobe is a unique opportunity to work with an extraordinary body of colleagues and doctoral, postgraduate and undergraduate students, at a time when governments and communities are seeking new ways of understanding the present and new solutions for living fairly, justly and less destructively together.”
Professor Eslava has a history of engaging in large inter-institutional collaborations spanning multiple jurisdictions in the developing world and produced edited volumes, monographs, and policy reports as outcomes of his research.
Professor Eslava’s research has received plenty of awards, such as the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize — the highest award for a monograph in the field of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom — and, recently, the 2022 Glasgow Law School Research Award.
