GSN has different geographical chapters (South (East) Asia, East Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America etc). Unlike other regional associations such, geographical chapters of GSN facilitate engagement on shared issues of arts, humanities, and social sciences between scholars, practitioners, civil society, and (judicial) policymakers from across different regions of the Global South.  

GSN shares a research interest on the legal issues of the Global South with other similar networks. But it extends this by comparing socio-political and politico-legal issues in the Global South, promoting knowledge exchange and sharing good practices within the Global South and between the Global South and the Global North, and engaging with actors outside academia. It has overlapping interests with various interdisciplinary institutes on interdisciplinary research and European centres on European Law and developments in the Eastern European region, but it adds a new focus on this by explaining politico-legal, geopolitical, and socio-political issues in the non-European countries of the Global South.

If you are interested in joining the GSN in general and/or any of its chapter(s) in particular, please write  at globalsouthnetwork@leicester.ac.uk or leicgsn@gmail.com

MIDDLE EAST GROUP

1. Dr Nurullah Gorgen, Teaching Fellow, School of Law, Durham University.
2. Sophia Schroeder, PhD Candidate, Judicial Institute, University College London.
3. Majida S Ismael, Research Fellow, Liverpool Hope University.
4. Anil Yildrim, PhD Candidate, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Exeter.

SOUTH ASIA GROUP

ADVISORS/MEMBERS:

1. Marva Khan,Assistant Professor, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
2. Prof Tasneem Kausar, Principal of the Pakistan College of Law.

Dr Vikram Visana was appointed Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leicester in 2022. Before arriving at Leicester, he taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Huddersfield, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global History, Freie Universität Berlin. 

Vikram’s research focuses on Indian political thought from the nineteenth century to the present. His book, Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought (2022), is a reinterpretation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Indian contribution to ideas on global labour rights and liberal-republican critiques of capitalist monopoly. More recently, Vikram has published on the political thought of Hindu nationalism from the perspective of political emotion and his on-going research combines this perspective with republican political theory as found in the thinkers and movements of Dalit and Black emancipation in India and the United States.

1. Dr Masrur Salekin, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bangladesh Judiciary.
2. Dr Shouvik Kumar Guha is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Law at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India.
3. Abureza M Muzareba, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka.
4. Shahab Saqib, PhD Candidate, School of Law, King’s College London/ Visiting Lecturer, SOAS Law School, University of London.
5. Amina Masood Janjua, Chairperson Defence of Human Rights of Pakistan
6. Dr Nauman Reayat, School of Law, University of Leicester.
7. Dr Masood Ahmed, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Leicester.
8. Matiullah Jan, Anchor person, Neo TV, Pakistan.

LATIN AMERICA GROUP

ADVISORS/MEMBERS:

Mauro Arturo Rivera holds a Ph.D. from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. He was a Constitutional Doctrine Fellow at the Spanish Constitutional Court (2012-2013). Dr. Rivera performed research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and was a visiting professor at the University of Silesia in Poland. From 2016 to 2020, he held different positions at the Mexican Supreme Court and Federal Electoral Court. In 2021 he was appointed Senior Law Clerk at the Mexican Supreme Court and wrote more than 70 rulings on behalf of the Court. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, leading the project “Qualified majorities in counter-majoritarian mechanisms: Towards a new theory of supermajorities in judicial review,” funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.

Sonia Anaid Cruz Davila is a doctoral candidate in Law Research at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México and a master’s degree in Analytic Philosophy from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests lie at the intersection between legal, moral, and political philosophy, as well as constitutional and democratic theory. Her dissertation addresses a particular way in which a head of government may abuse her power, namely, by making decisions and performing acts unilaterally. She argues that unilateral executive power is a form of domination that disrespects human dignity by treating people in condescending and patronising ways. She is interested in the implications of this form of abuse of power on our understanding of demagogy and populism.

Dr Marcus Vinicius De Matos, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Brunel University

Dr Marcelo Carvalho Loureiro, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Leicester is a socio-legal theorist working in the intersection between citizenship law, constitutional rights, and colonial legal systems. They joined the University of Leicester in 2023 after having taught and researched at the University of Birmingham, and the SOAS University of London. They completed a fully-funded Ph.D at the University of Birmingham with a thesis proposing a critical integration between German subjective rights theory and imperial legal experiences via the analysis of the Portuguese empire. Before that Marc received a Master of Social Sciences in Migration Studies from the University of Montpellier III, a Master of Arts in Intermediterranean Mediation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a Laurea Magistrale in Political Sciences and Cultural Studies on Crossing the Mediterranean from the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice. They completed their undergraduate degree in Law after having studied constitutional, comparative, and international law at the Universities of Coimbra, the University of Strasbourg, and the Federal and State Universities of Rio de Janeiro.

(SOUTH) EAST ASIA GROUP

ADVISORS/MEMBERS

1. Prof Rhona Smith, School of Law, Newcastle University.

Moohyung Cho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. His research interests include comparative political institutions, judicial politics, autocracy and democracy, and political economy of institutions. His recent studies seek to explore political and economic conditions under which political leaders establish and maintain reasonably independent courts, particularly in the context of authoritarian regimes, emerging democracies, and Asian countries. Moohyung received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Duke University in 2020 and worked as a visiting researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Seoul National University. 

Xin Wang is a PhD Candidate at Leicester Law School, University of Leicester.

AFRICAN GROUP

ADVISORS/MEMBERS

Dr Nauman Reayat, School of Law, University of Leicester

Hakeem Yusuf, Prof of Global Law, School of Law, Derby University, UK

1.  Prof Assefa Fiseha, College of Law and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University.
2.  Prof Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin.
3. Dr Joyceline Eze-Okubuiro, Lecturer in Law, Leicester Law School
4.  Dr Adaeze Aniodoh, Lecturer in Law, Leicester Law School
5. Dr Tamaraudoubra (Tom) Egbe, Lecturer in Law, Leicester Law School.
6. Dr Hashim Mude, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
7. Dr Olivia Lwabukuna, SOAS School of Law, University of London.
8. Kelvin Vries, PhD Candidate, School of Law, University of Oxford.
9. Jack Mbueyalongo Luita, PhD Candidate, Department of Health Sciences, University of York.
10. Dr Ebenezer Adodo, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Leicester.
11. Olum Lornah Afoyomungu, Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria