University of California, Irvine School of Law Professor Swethaa Ballakrishnen and collaborator Suryapratim Roy, Assistant Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin, have been awarded a Law and Society Association Global Collaboration Grant for their research project, “Law & the Interloper: Comparative Projects and the Potential of Queer Theory.”
The grant was conferred upon Prof. Ballakrishnen and Prof. Roy by the Law and Society Association (LSA) Coordinator of Global Activities and International Activities Committee. The committee is responsible for developing programs that attend to the needs of international LSA members and that promote greater awareness of comparative and transnational scholarship.
About Professor Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Professor Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen (they/them) is a socio-legal scholar whose research examines the intersections between law, globalization and stratification from a critical, queer and global south perspective. Particularly, across a range of sites and different levels of analysis, their work interrogates how law and legal institutions create, continue, and counter different kinds of socio-economic inequalities.
Prof. Ballakrishnen is committed to building and serving socio-legal communities, especially ones that focus on critical questions concerning legal education and the profession. At UC Irvine, they co-run the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop, and the Law, Society, and Culture Emphasis. In addition, beyond UC Irvine, they serve on the editorial board of the academic journal Law & Social Inquiry (LSI) for the 2024–2026 term and the Editorial Advisory Board for Law & Society Review (LSR). They are also affiliated faculty at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, and previously served on the LSA Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, and the ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Law. Prof. Ballakrishnen is also a co-founder of the LSA Collaborative Research Network on Legal Education.
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