Luis Eslava

Luis Eslava is Professor of International Law at La Trobe University (Australia), and Professor of international law at the University of Kent. Luis has been a visitor professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the University of Melbourne, Universidad Externado de Colombia. His research focuses on the encounter between international law and international development, paying particular attention to questions of precarity and violence in the Global South. His publications have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish and Sinhalese, and his work has received several awards, including the 2016 SLSA Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize. He is the author of Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development (CUP 2015), and coeditor of Bandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts, Pending Futures (CUP 2017) and the Oxford Handbook on International Law and Development (OUP 2023). He is currently a member of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development’s Advisory Academic Circle and WIEGOs Law Programme Advisory Committee – the largest global network focused on improving conditions for workers in the informal economy.