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Ratana Ly is a PhD candidate in the UVic Faculty of Law. She completed her LLB at the Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia, and LLM at the Nagoya University, Japan. She then worked as a researcher at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law in Cambodia, focusing her research on international human rights, international criminal law, labor migration, and refugees. Observing the recent booming of construction in Cambodia, she is keen to explore the relationship between this business sector with labor rights, migration, gender, and the environment. In her spare time, she enjoys taking long walks. Ratana is looking forward to the exciting challenges and opportunities, which will come her way during the program, and learn as she goes. Ratana is particularly grateful to CAPI, the QES-AS scholarship, and UVic for the funding and other support, which allow her to undertake these studies. 

Pema Wangdi is a PhD student at the Law and Society Program at UVic and a Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholar (QES-AS). He is a senior lecturer and one of the founding faculty members at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck (JSW) School of Law, Bhutan’s first law school.

Pema has been working on the law school project since 2011, which led to its opening on July 3, 2017, when the law school welcomed its first cohort of 25 students to the campus. He has designed and taught the philosophy course for the law students and also co-designed and taught the Political Science Course. He is also part of the committee who is designing the Gross National Happiness and the Law Course, which is considered to be the capstone of the JSW School of Law Curriculum.

Prior to this current job, Pema worked as a Managing Director of a Radio Station popularly known in Thimphu, Bhutan as Kuzoo FM, the Voice of the Youth. He has also worked as a curriculum writer and audio/visual producer for the Ministry of Education. Apart from that he has an experience of teaching from Kindergarten to the University level. He received his teaching training from Samtse College of Education, Bhutan and studied Cinema, TV, Stage and Radio from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Alberta. He received his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Rangsit University, Thailand and MA in Philosophy from Fordham University, NY USA.

Kitpatchara Somanawat is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, specializing in legal history, legal philosophy, social theory and constitutionalism. During his UVic stay, he will be using primarily historical methods to compare the traits of First Nations and Thai judges.

Dr. Ly Anh Hoàng is a Lecturer in International Law and Acting Head of the Department of Research Management and Journal Administration at Hanoi Law University. Dr. Hoàng will be at UVic for three months working on her current research project investigating Vietnam's compliance with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and undertaking a research placement with UVic's Environmental Law Centre.

Sushmita is currently teaching at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore as Assistant Professor. She finished her doctoral degree from Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work falls in the larger domain of urban politics but she draws from methods and debates across disciplines like anthropology, political economy, history and law. At CAPI she worked on her book manuscript which looks at the processes and politics of villages getting drawn into the urban fold in the context of Delhi since 1950s to contemporary times. 

Dr. Pooja Parmar is an Assistant Professor at 番茄社区 Faculty of Law. Her current teaching and research focus on the legal profession, lawyers’ ethics, legal history, Indigeneity, property, and international human rights law. Her book Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India: Claims, Histories, Meanings was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.

During her time in Bhutan, Pooja will engage in collaborative research on property law and assist with the Bar Council of Bhutan.

Supriya Routh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, 番茄社区, where he teaches Contracts, Individual Employment Relationship Law, and the Legal Process. His research interests include theoretical conceptualizations of work and labour law, workers’ organization initiatives, international labour law, atypical and informal workers in the global South, and human rights and human development.

He plans to examine how a combined public/private collaborative approach to overcoming multidimensional deprivation of human development of women informal workers could be successfully realized through creative collective action devised by such marginalized women workers. Academic and policy studies often prioritize the role of state institutions in promoting women informal workers’ aspirations. Although, increasingly scholars in sociology and political economy (e.g., Elizabeth Hill, Rina Agarwala, Martha Chen) are adopting a broader approach than a state-centric one, the existing legal literature largely ignores the role of non-state entities (including workers’ autonomous initiatives) alongside the state institutions in improving workers’ lives. Following this scholarship, he is interested in ascertaining how marginalized women innovatively overcome the challenges posed by neoliberalism to the labour movement by simultaneously making use of state and non-state institutions of democratic societies.