John Reynolds, Associate Professor in the School of Law & Criminology, was this year awarded a Connections Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project on ‘TWAIL 2023: Democratizing International Law’. Dr. Reynolds is a co-applicant on the project along with his colleagues Sujith Xavier (University of Windsor), Laura Betancur Restrepo (Universidad de Los Andes) and Amaka Vanni (University of Leeds). The team were awarded a Connection Grant budget totalling just over $100,000 for a series of research and education activities across 2023, including a symposium on international law and global justice in Maynooth and a Summer Academy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.
The project brings together leading scholars and thinkers from around the world working on international law, global justice and equality from a range of perspectives, particularly those of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) research network. The project addresses several core intersecting thematic strands – racial justice, economic justice, environmental justice, and transitional justice – and will produce a series of special issue publications.
Dr John Reynolds works and teaches on topics of international law and social justice, and is the Chair of the School of Law & Criminology’s LLM in International Justice masters programme.
