Workshop: Employing Law and Political Economy and Critical Legal Studies in Legal Research

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Law and Political Economy and Critical Legal Studies are two methodological interdisciplinary approaches to studying law. Further information will follow.

LEVEL: Basic

METHOD: Qualitative and quantitative

ABOUT THE LECTURER: Dr. Federica Violi is Associate Professor in International Law at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dr. Violi received her master’s in law from the University of Messina and her PhD in international law from the University of Milan La Statale, with a thesis on land grabbing and permanent sovereignty over natural resources. She has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment in New York. Her research focuses in the areas of international economic law, sovereignty over natural resources, investment contracts, international investment agreements, due diligence and law & art. Dr. Violi actively lends her expertise to inform institutional practice and NGOs’ activities and has recently appeared as an expert before EU Parliamentary committee sessions, the Italian and the German Parliament.

PREREQUISITES: You need to register and have a ticket for the full PhD Days- no partial tickets are possible. You can register here.