Achalie Kumarage

📢All HDRs and ECRs doing law & society research in 🇦🇺 and 🇳🇿 Join us for a full-day workshop on doing law and society research in Australia and New Zealand   🗓️ 13 (Friday) September 2024 🕘 8.45 am – 4 pm (AEST) 🧑‍💻Delivered on Zoom ✍️ lsaanz.org/event-pg-works… Contact me for❓

#ICYMI The outcome document of the Global Tribunal of Women Workers hosted in 2022 is now live on our website! Centering the stories of the women workers who broke their silence, the document captures their testimonies & the Tribunal's recommendations: iwraw-ap.org/resources/glob…

Now #OpenAccess: my article Twists & Swirls: Caregiving & Sexualization—Femininity Construct in Gendered Migration from Nigeria to Italy. In this article, I explore how social contexts in Nigeria influence the gendered labour migration of a particular migrant corridor to Italy through what I call ‘social agency.’ I trace how these social constructs shape gender performance in the origin country, #Nigeria, by 'being gender,' and in the destination country, #Italy, by 'doing gender.' Download the full piece here ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/4doodsN or @SSRN bit.ly/4cc2jrT #migration #gender #Nigeria #Italy #Caregiving #Carework #Feminist

It was an honour to pen this outcome document capturing the essence of the Global Tribunal of Women Workers. The report draws from the voices of 73 women workers and their representatives from 24 countries. Special thanks to the @IWRAW_AP team. iwraw-ap.org/resources/glob…

@SharonFrielOz @GenderANU @ANURegNet @PHEHothouse @Govern4Health @PhilBakerNZ What an amazing contribution! Libby using the prize money to expand her work on human milk sharing in New Zealand is a great reflection of her commitment. Congratulations to Libby 🎊

Och, just brilliant seeing Dr Libby Salmon receive her award for best Phd from the excellent @GenderANU

We have just hired a 10-month teaching post to replace me while I am on my Leverhulme Fellowship. A thread of advice for applicants in this difficult UK landscape right now: 1. get in touch with the named person on the job spec. Ask a Q, get your name under their eyes.

My thoughts on the proposed labour law reforms in Sri Lanka, what it means for the workers and what more needs to be done.

We received over 1000 applications for 3 PhD positions (I know!🤯) Since not too long ago, I was on the other side of the table... I want to share 3 basic general tips for those applying for PhD positions and postdocs! 🧵

@christy_sagay @StellenboschUni @IGLP_HarvardLaw @DrJanito @uOttawaHRREC @NakacheDelphine Sounds like it’s going great, as expected. Look forward to reading your updates here 🙂

@StellenboschUni @IGLP_HarvardLaw I’ll tell you as much as I can in the thread 🧵 that’ll follow tomorrow, next, maybe the day after—I’m not sure. …but for now, all I can say is @AchalieKumarage and @DrJanito swore by their experience… and they were right! …and yes shout out to @bisi_akins for promoting me to apply.

@akintominas @morganbron Massive congratulations on the big achievement! 🎊

Graduation Day! 🎉 🎉 An honour to celebrate this milestone with my supervisor @morganbron and so many incredible mentors (some of whom taught me as an undergrad a decade ago..!), colleagues and fellow PhD travellers #PhinisheD

@WaltGJohnson @LSI_Journal Congratulations Walter! 🥳 Super proud and look forward to reading the Article.

I'm honoured my piece was selected as the winner of @LSI_Journal's 2024 Grad Student Paper Competition. The paper looks at how drawing boundaries around and within "neurotech" has contributed to the emergence of a new space of transnational lawmaking.

Verbatim record of Israel's argument available here: icj-cij.org/sites/default/…

(Post) May day reflections for building more equitable work and labour bargaining spaces.

**Call-for-Papers** Asian Law & Society Annual Conference 13-14 December at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul, Korea (in person) Deadline for paper and panel proposals: 24 June alsa.network/alsa-meetings

Asian Law Junior Scholars Workshop Yale Law School, August 22-23, 2024   Applications due by May 20, 2024   A group of scholars working on Asian Law have come together to organize a rotating workshop for prospective law teaching job market candidates who write in this field. The workshop seeks to aid junior scholars in their initial job searches by offering them an opportunity to present their research (including potential job market papers) on Asian law to peers, conference co-organizers, and invited senior scholars.  It will also provide a roundtable conversation on the logistics of the job market, focusing specifically on the unique challenges that Asian law scholars tend to face.   We invite advanced PhD students, recent JD graduates, and VAPs/fellows who study some aspect of Asian law to apply to present their research at our inaugural workshop at Yale Law School on August 22-23, 2024. This in-person workshop is open exclusively to junior scholars who plan to go on the law teaching market at some point in the next three calendar years (2024-26). Successful applicants will receive funding for travel.   Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a list of references, a completed paper of comparable length and substance to usual job talk papers, and a short (200 words) description of their expected job search timeline. Application materials are due by May 20, 2024 by email attachment to asianlawworkshop@gmail.com.     The co-organizers listed below together constitute the selection committee. Applicants will be notified by early June of decision on selection.  Jacques deLisle (UPenn) Mark Jia (Georgetown) Ji Li (UC Irvine) Shitong Qiao (Duke) Mark Wu (Harvard) Angela Huyue Zhang (USC, starting from Fall 2024) Taisu Zhang (Yale, current host)

ANALYSIS: High inflation means many workers' HECS debts are growing faster than they can pay it off. It shows why calls for change have grown so loud that the prime minister has all but confirmed there will be HECS relief in the budget. ab.co/4b6qEzj

Is this still going on @dialoglk? I wrote this in 2016! "Sri Lanka’s Mobile Service Providers (MSP) have fleeced millions of customers through third-party billing, a practice by which they are charged for value-added services they did not knowingly enlist for." Article follows.

@SalwaHoque @ishtiaqueSIA @whkchun This is amazing! Congratulations Dr. Hoque 🎉

I had my doctoral dissertation defense today with an incredible group of scholars: Arvind Rajagopal, Alexander Galloway, Dina Siddiqi, @ishtiaqueSIA , @whkchun , and Brinkley Messick! I’m so grateful for the thoughtful insight they provided! I can write Dr. Salwa Hoque now 🥹

🥳 We are hosting a workshop on 21 June 2024 in Oxford for early-career researchers in international law in honour of Professor Theodor Meron. The deadline for abstracts is 17 April 2024: law.ox.ac.uk/content/news/c…