Remapping International Development

This series, co-hosted by La Trobe Law School’s International and Comparative Law Cluster (ICLC) and the Laureate Programme in Global Corporations and International Law at Melbourne Law School, brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists to critically engage the shifting foundations of development in the 21st century. Amid planetary crisis, widening inequality, and renewed political resistance, the series asks what development becomes when its maps – geopolitical, economic, legal, environmental, and epistemic – are redrawn. To remap is to unsettle what is taken for granted: the borders, categories, and frameworks that organise global life.

Foregrounding global entanglements and submerged histories, the series interrogates the socio-economic architectures that both sustain and challenge development orthodoxy. Through interdisciplinary dialogue across career stages and geographies, it opens space for alternative imaginaries – grounded in justice, plurality, and the agency of those long cast as development’s objects. It invites renewed reflection on what development is, whom it serves, and how it might be reimagined in a world in upheaval.