Work in Progress - Weekly Research Meetings

Written By Sundhya Pahuja

The Laureate Team meets every Thursday to discuss the research conducted over the previous week, developments in the field, new literature, and events of relevance in the news. At this meeting, Laureate Program Visiting Researchers present their work in progress for intensive workshopping with the team. Other researchers from the University, or further afield, in cognate fields may also be invited to come to the meeting and present their work in progress for workshopping by the team. The range of visitors attests to the diversity of projects and people who can benefit from exposure to the collaborative research environment of the program.

In 2023, WIP presentations from outside the team include:

  • Anastasiya Kotova (Lund) talking about Corporate Criminal Accountability.

  • Yilin Wang (Macau) talking about the History of State Owned Enterprises in China.

  • Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, VicHealth Commercial Determinants of Health Research Fellow, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, sharing her work on Corporate Influence in Policy Making. (27 April)

  • Professor Luis Eslava (Latrobe) discussing Antony Anghie’s recent Foreword for the European Journal of International Law, ‘Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective’ (8 June – open to others)

  • Professor Douglas Harris (UBC) sharing work in progress on Condominium. (29 June - open to others)

  • Lauren Zanetti, Pillar Two (16 November)

In 2024, WIP presentations from outside the team include:

  • Kathleen Claussen (Georgetown) talking about the possibilities of trade law as a means of policing corporations and their supply chains (29 February)

  • Andrew Sanger (Cambridge) talking about his ongoing research work on the interactions between international law and corporations (14 March)

  • Charlie Peevers (Glasgow) discussing the SS Wimbledon case and the Suez Canal Company (21 March)

  • Negar Mansouri (Copenhagen Business School) discussing her research on critical global histories of international law and international organisations (18 April)

  • Elise Bant (University of Western Australia) discussing her work on new models of corporate accountability (23 May)

  • Celine Tan (Warwick) talking about her work on the privatisation of development finance, particularly climate finance (11 June)

  • Paul Hunt (Essex) discussing his research on corporations, human rights and international responsibility.

In 2025, WIP Presentations included:

  • Alex Dela Cruz (UNSW) on his Jurists of the Archipelago book proposal.

  • Dalia Palombo (Tilburg) on her book proposal, Imperialism, Business and Human Rights.

  • Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY) discussing their ongoing research.

  • Christine Ahlborn (Trinity College Dublin) discussing her research grant proposal on ‘Global Corporations in International Environmental Law’.

  • Florenz Volkaert (Gent) discussing his book proposal, The Cobden-Chevalier Network of Commercial Treaties (1860-1871): An Empirical Investigation into the Origins of the International Economic Order.

  • Matthew Birchall (UNSW) discussing their ongoing research and archival methods

  • Shahd Hammouri (Kent) workshopping her book chapter on war profiteering.

  • Joanna Kyriakakis (Monash) discussing her research, ‘Corporate Climate Criminals and the Limits of Ecocide’.

  • Caitlin Murphy (RMIT) workshopping her book proposal, Supply Chains as Jurisdiction: Lithium, Law and Worldmaking in the Energy Transition.

  • Jane Borman (Open Secrets South Africa) discussed her co-authored paper, ‘Corporate empire and the foreign act of state doctrine ’.

In 2026, WIP presentations from outside the team will include:

  • Phillip Stern will workshop his work with the LPGCIL team (10 Aug).

Sundhya Pahuja
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