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Professor Luis Eslava is a Professor of International Law at the University of Kent's Kent Law School, with additional roles including Professorial Research Chair at La Trobe Law School, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, and International Professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. His research focuses on the interplay between international law, development, and everyday life, particularly in the Global South. He co-leads the International Law and Politics Collaborative Research Network at the Law and Society Association and directs the Ruptures21 initiative exploring socio-legal action research.
His work critically examines imperialism, statehood, and informality through interdisciplinary methods. Current projects include analyzing 'new poverty' and youth violence, co-editing The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development, and investigating informal economies' role in global order. He has conducted fieldwork in Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, and Colombia's Cali and Tumaco.
Eslava supervises over 15 graduate and postdoctoral researchers on topics ranging from climate justice to agro-business expansion. He serves on editorial boards for journals like Human Rights Law Review and Latin American Law Review, and contributes to professional networks such as the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).
His teaching spans International Development Law, Public International Law, and Human Rights Law. Recent publications include Local Space, Global Life (2015) and co-edited volumes on Bandung's legacy and imperialism's legal history.
