About the lecture
Professor Alessandrini’s Inaugural Lecture explores the potential for critical legal approaches to challenge the role international economic law plays in the proliferation of socio-economic inequalities and planetary injustices.
Drawing on feminist debates around wages for housework, racial and colonial capitalism scholarship and third world approaches to international law, she will argue that a feminist social reproduction lens enables us to remain attentive to the legal mechanisms that enable capitalist value to be produced on a global scale.
She will also explore the possibility of alternative arrangements capable of supporting practices of more-than-capitalist value-making, thereby contributing to different and more plural social orders.
About the lecturer
Professor Donatella Alessandrini is a critical legal scholar whose research lies at the intersection of law and political economy. She has a particular interest in the relationship between international and national economic law as well as socio-economic inequalities.
She co-directs the University’s LLM programme and is Loughborough University London’s Deputy Director of Research.
As well as sitting on the editorial boards of Law and Critique and feminists@law, she is a founding member of The IEL Collective, a community of scholars and practitioners interested in critical reflection on the interactions between law and the global economy. She is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Prior to joining Loughborough Law, Donatella worked at the University of Kent.
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