Siddharth Peter de Souza, LL.M. (Cambridge)
PhD Researcher
Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung
Postanschrift
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Juristische Fakultät
Öffentliches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung
10099 Berlin
Sitz
Altes Palais, Raum 421
Unter den Linden 9, Berlin-Mitte
Kontakt
siddharth.de.souza@rewi.hu-berlin.de
Arbeitsgebiete
Access to Justice, Legal Pluralism, Socio-Legal Studies, Comparative Constitutional Law, Law and Technology.
My PhD research is to study the politics of transnational legal indicators and their application to plural legal contexts. I am particularly interested in how these frameworks are constructed and the type of knowledge that they generate.
Kurzlebenslauf
- since 10/2016: Ph.D Scholar, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 01/2018–03/2018: Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK
- 10/2015–06/2016: LL.M. (International Law), University of Cambridge, UK
- 07/2015- Present Founder, Justice Adda (Supported by Cambridge Social Ventures, Cambridge Judge Business School)
- 08/2014–09/2015: German Chancellor Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany
- 01/2014–07/2014: Judicial Clerk to Justice Dr. S Muralidhar, High Court of Delhi, New Delhi, India
- 07/2013–12/2013: Research Intern, United Nations Development Programme, Beijing, China
- 07/2010–05/2013: LL.B., Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India
- 07/2007–05/2010: B.A. (Hons) Economics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India Publikationen
Publikationen
Articles:
- The need for ‘nudges’ by the Supreme Court of India: The case of appointment and removal of Governors in India (with Aayush Agarwala)
Indian Journal of Public Administration 2019 - Towards a user-centered engagement with law
South Asia Chronicle 2019 - Unpacking the Black Box: Addressing the ‘Social’ to Make Construction of AI-Powered Legal Technologies More Transparent and Unbiased
Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio Legal Studies 2018 - Evaluating ‘Access to Justice’ in Informal Justice Systems: A Suggestive Framework, in: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol. 19, 2015
Policy briefs:
- Handbook on Designing Socially Responsible Law Firms – Edited (Eastern Book Company 2018)
- Transforming the Legal Profession: the Impact and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (Digital Policy Portal 2017)
Opinions:
- Beyond Best Practices: How to Use Design Thinking in Rule of Law Promotion, Peace Lab, March 2019
https://peacelab.blog/2019/03/beyond-best-practices-how-to-use-design-thinking - Self-reflecting, constructing and positioning: Intersecting debates in Socio-Legal Studies Rechtswirklichkeit, March 2019 (co-authored with Lisa Hahn)
https://barblog.hypotheses.org/2988 - Vernacularizing the law: Can it be made more accessible? Justice Innovation Blog, Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, October 2018
https://winklerinstitute.ca/vernacularizing-the-law-can-it-be-made-more-accessible/ - Lending a hand India Business Law Journal, October 2018 (co-authored with Varsha Aithala)
https://www.vantageasia.com/lending-a-hand-2/ - Can Technology Finally Deliver on India’s Legal Aid Promise? Stanford Social Innovation Review, July 2018 (co-authored with Varsha Aithala)
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/can_technology_finally_deliver_on_indias_legal_aid_promise - The Socio- Legal Lab: Beyond Methods Rechtswirklichkeit, May 2018 (co-authored with Lisa Hahn)
https://barblog.hypotheses.org/2047 - Geographies of racism, fascism and intolerance: mapping hate, recording violence Open Democracy, May 2017 (co-authored with Vaibhav Bhawsar, Nida Rehman, Saba Sharma and Somnath Ray)
https://www.opendemocracy.net/saba-sharma/geographies-of-racism-fascism-and-intolerance-mapping-hate-recording-violence - What we’ve found by mapping incidents of intolerance across South Asia The Conversation, November 2016 (co-authored with Saba Sharma and Nida Rehman)
https://theconversation.com/what-weve-found-by-mapping-incidents-of-intolerance-across-south-asia-66181 - Religious Conversions in India- keeping human rights at the core, Open Democracy January 2015
https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/siddharth-peter-de-souza/religious-conversions-in-india-–-keeping-human-rights-at-c - Righting Wrongful Convictions: Is Anguish Enough? Oxford Human Rights Hub, June 2014.
http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/righting-wrongful-convictions-is-anguish-enough/
Lehre
- Q Team Seminar: Society, Law and Development: Theories Contestations and Actors ( Summer Semester 2018)
- Q Team Seminar: Legal Pluralism and Gender in India (Summer Semester 2017)