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Amparo Defends Doctoral Dissertation with Top Grade

December 10, 2018

Thiago de Souza Amparo defended his doctoral (S.J.D.) dissertation entitled Harming Constitutional Change: The Role of Countermovements in Constitutional Equality Litigation in the United States, Brazil and South Africa on December 7, 2018.

Contesse on Resisting the Inter-American Human Rights System

December 10, 2018

On December 3, 2018 the Department of Legal Studies hosted a lecture by Professor Jorge Contesse (Rutgers) on the resistance and backlash the Inter-American Human Rights System has been experiencing during the past years.

Mba Defends Doctoral Dissertation with Top Grade

December 5, 2018

The Department of Legal Studies is proud to share that on 28 November 2018 Dr. Sanford Mba successfully defended his SJD dissertation titled:

New Financing for Distressed Businesses in the Context of Restructuring: Comparing approaches from the US, UK and Germany, with Lessons for Nigeria and other Frontier Markets.

Möschel on Postracialism at INED in Paris

November 21, 2018

On 19 November 2018, Professor Mathias Möschel presented on postracialism in Europe in the "Global Race" seminar series hosted by the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED) in Paris (France).

Möschel on the Influence of Populism at Dublin City University

November 13, 2018

On 9 November 2018, Professor Mathias Möschel presented a key note lecture on Muslim Headscarf and Veil Bans as Harassment and participated in a panel of experts on the Effects of Populism on Research and Higher Education at the Irish Postgraduate Research Conference 2018 hosted by Dublin City University (Ireland).