Fellowship Profiles

Inaugurated in 2006, the Fellowship Program offers full or partial student and post-doctoral fellowship support to a small number of scholars pursuing research in areas related to the IGLP’s ongoing work. The number of Fellowships awarded each year depends upon the available funding. In general, the IGLP encourages the development of progressive and alternative ideas about international law, society and political economy by supporting original, provocative and challenging intellectual work that might not otherwise find support from mainstream institutional resources and which contributes to the emergence of new approaches to international law and global social justice.

Dr. Hengameh Saberi (Iran)

For 2010-2011, with the generous support of an anonymous donor, the Institute awarded one full Post-Doctoral Fellowship to Dr. Hengameh Saberi from Iran. Dr. Saberi completed her SJD at Harvard in 2010. Her dissertation considered the relationship between the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism and the policy science of American international lawyers. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Saberi to the Institute.

Since 2006 we have also awarded seven Fellowships to the following SJD candidates:

Arnulf Becker Lorca (Chile)

Arnulf is in his last year of the SJD program. His project focuses on Mestizo International Law and explores aspects of the history of international law from a non European non Western perspective. Arnulf will be working full time this summer to finish his dissertation and plans to take a tenure track position at Kings College in the fall.

Yun-Ru Chen (Taiwan)

Yun-Ru is in the first year of the SJD program. Her research project is entitled “The Reconstruction of Family Law Through Legal Transplantation: A Genealogical and Comparative Study of Legal Westernization in Colonial and Post-Colonial Taiwan.”

Iain Frame (Scotland)

Iain is in the first year of the SJD program. His research focuses on the operation of global governance.

Ermal Frasheri (Albania)

Ermal is in the first year of the SJD Program. His thesis focuses on regional integration in the discourse of development strategies.

Havva Guney-Ruebenacker (Turkey)

Havva is the second year of the SJD Program. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled “Towards a Feminist Islamic Jurisprudence: From Liberal Laissez-faire to Social Justice and Equitable Distribution of Wealth in Islamic Family Law.”

Moria Paz (Israel)

This May Moria successfully defended her thesis entitled “Minorities in International Governance: Three Historical Studies.” She was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Hila Shamir (Israel)

Hila is in the second year of the SJD program. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled “Care Commodified: the Legal Regulation of the Commodification of Domestic Work & Sex in Globalizing Economies.”