Radha D’Souza

Radha D’Souza is a Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster. She practiced as a barrister in the High Court of Bombay and taught at the Universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand before coming to University of Westminster. D’Souza is a writer, critic and commentator. She is a social justice activist and has worked with labour movements and democratic rights movements in her home country of India as an organizer and activist lawyer. With visual artist Jonas Staal she founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021-ongoing). D’Souza has a BA in Philosophy from Elphinstone College (University of Mumbai) and a LLB from New Law College (University of Mumbai), and she completed her PhD in Geography and Law at the University of Auckland. She is the author of What’s Wrong with Rights? (Pluto Press, 2018) and Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters (Orient Longman, 2006) and works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK.