Visiting Fellows

Dr Tamara Relis

2016-2018

Dr. Relis is a Research Fellow in the LSE South Asia Centre. She is also a Barrister & Solicitor (UK) and a New York Attorney. Dr. Relis is currently working on a new book project, examining Human Rights, Access to Justice and Conflict Resolution involving Tibetan refugees in India, Nepal and Bhutan. She was awarded a British Academy / Leverhulme SRG grant to advance this project.

Earlier, Dr. Relis was a Research Fellow in the LSE law department, working on her 2nd book entitled: The Purchase of Human Rights: Standards and Legal Pluralism in the Global South (OUP, forthcoming). The manuscript is based on Dr. Relis' postdoctoral research in the LSE law department (British Academy & ESRC). She conducted fieldwork in 8 states of India, focusing on legal and lay actors' experiences in state courts, lok adalats and non-state justice mechanisms (panchayats, mahila panchayats, nari adalats ) processing human rights violation cases of violence against women.

Additionally, Dr. Relis was a professor of law, teaching human rights law, non-state justice and legal pluralism, and evidence in New York (Touro Law Centre). She was also a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University Law School in New York.

Dr Laura Zimmermann

2016

Dr Zimmermann holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan (2014) and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford (2008). Since August 2014, she is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, United States with a joint position in Economics and International Affairs (the university’s political science department for all political scientists not working on the US). Her research lies at the intersection of political science and economics in the areas of political economy, development economics and comparative politics. She has presented her work widely at discipline-specific and interdisciplinary conferences and has contributed to established blogs like Ideas for India and World Bank Development Impact.