Wilson Center Experts
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Public Policy Scholar
Environmental Change and Security Program
Contact Information:
T 202/ 691-4134
// F 202/691-4001
Expertise:
Environment
Affiliation:
Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Wilson Center Project(s):
"Guardians at the Gates: Imperial Judiciaries and the Turn to Rights"
Term:
Sep 01, 2006
Dec 01, 2006
Subjects
Development,Human Rights,International Law
Expertise
International law; human rights; sustainable development
Major Publications
- "Counter-hegemonic International Law: Rethinking Human Rights and Development as a Third World Strategy," Third World Quarterly 27, no.5 (forthcoming)
- "International Law and the Third World,' coeditor with Richard Falk and Jackie Stevens, Special Issue of Third World Quarterly 27, no.5 (2006)
- International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2003), translated into Spanish by the Latin American Institute for Alternative Legal Services (ILSA), Colombia, 2005; South Asia edition, 2005, by Foundation Press
