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Professor Nandini Ramanujam – Principal Investigator

Nandini RamanujamProfessor (Professional) Nandini Ramanujam is the Co-Director and Program Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University's Faculty of Law. Professor Ramanujam teaches on issues surrounding the rule of law and economic development and human rights, at McGill's Faculty of Law. She has over 10 years of involvement in systemic reform of higher education in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

She was Director of the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute in Budapest, prior to which she was the Regional Director of Baltic and Eurasian Programs of Civic Education Project. She has extensive experience working on human rights issues, strategic planning, governance and programming and has worked as a consultant with a focus on education and civil society. Dr. Ramanujam was a Special Advisor to the President of Bard College in New York State and a Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute. She holds a D.Phil Economics (Oxford), an MA and an M.Phil, Economics. She was President of the Board of Directors of Equitas from 2002 to 2008. 

View her complete academic profile on the McGill Faculty of Law web site.

Nicholas Caivano – Researcher

Nicholas Caivano is a researcher with the Rule of Law and Economic Development Research Group (McGill University Faculty of Law). He completed his articles at Amnesty International as a Law Foundation of Ontario Fellow, where he oversaw the organization’s strategic litigation program. He has worked in international human rights extensively in Canada and globally in a number of different roles. Nicholas’ expertise encompasses human rights aspects of health, disability, technology, international justice, and the work of the United Nations. He has held the Rathlyn and Aisenstadt Fellowships in human rights at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and helped launch the Faculty’s Disability and Human Rights Initiative. He holds a BCL/LLB (2014) from the Faculty of Law and a BCom (2010) from the Faculty of Management at McGill University.

Francesca Farrington – Researcher

Francesca FarringtonFrancesca Farrington is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the relationship between law and development. In particular, she examines how the different ways in which we conceive the ‘rule of law’ effect the legitimacy and sustainability of legal reforms. In addition, she is interested in the moral and political information contained within legal reforms, and the tendency for such reforms to become vehicles for the reproduction of certain modes of social consciousness and organization. At Cambridge, Francesca is actively involved in the 'Decolonise Movement' and organizes reading groups where students can explore how these legacies manifest within legal education. Francesca teaches on the ‘Economics of Law and Regulation’ module at the Faculty of Law and on the ‘History of Political Thought before 1700’ module at the Politics Faculty.

Prior to commencing her doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 2018, Francesca was a research assistant for legal counsel to the Irish State, advising on issues concerning Irish constitutional and European Union Law. She continues to act as an external consultant for legal counsel. She received her LL.M from McGill University, Montreal, where she was an O'Brien Fellow in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (2017) and received her LLB from Trinity College Dublin, where she was a Non-Foundation Scholar (2016).

Nicolas Kamran - Collaborator

Nicolas KamranNicolas Kamran is a BCL/JD student at the McGill Faculty of Law, where he remains deeply invested in community and academic life. His research interests lie in criminal justice, human rights, and public international law. As of his fourth year at the Faculty, Nicolas has worked as an Executive Editor at the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, the Director of Legal Advocacy at the Wallenberg Advocacy Group, a research assistant to Professors François Crépeau, Marie Manikis, Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry, and Nandini Ramanujam, a group assistant for McGill’s first-year criminal justice course, and as a member of the Faculty’s Academic Freedom Advocacy clinic. 

 

Past ROLED collaborators

  • Siena Anstis
  • Julia Betts
  • James Burman
  • Kuzi Charamba
  • Stephanie Chow
  • Marcus Moore
  • Mara Verna
  • Carlos Vasconcelos
  • Monika Erzsebet Berenyi
  • Katrina Bland
  • Jorge Caicedo
  • Xiaoming Guo
  • Andrew Rintoul
  • Sadie Xinxin Yang

 

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