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The Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory and the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism invite you to the book launch of What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations (Pluto Press, 2018) by O'Brien Fellow in Residence Dr. Radha D'Souza.

This event will be chaired by Dr. Lorena Poblete (O'Brien Fellow in Residence). The readers will be Profs. Aziz Choudry (Faculty of Education), Mark Antaki (Faculty of Law), and Adelle Blackett (Faculty of Law).

A light lunch will be served, courtesy of the LLDRL. Those interested must confirm their attendance by emailing lldrl.law [at] mcgill.ca no later than June 27.

LOCATION: Chancellor Day Hall Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16), 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Radha D’Souza is an O’Brien Fellow in Residence, critical scholar, activist, barrister and writer, who has lived and worked in India, New Zealand and the UK. She is currently a Reader in Law at the University of Westminster. Her research straddles legal studies, development studies, sociology, geography, theory, comparative philosophy and history. D’Souza’s work is well-known for its interdisciplinary breadth and for critically engaging theories and practices within social movements. Her book What’s Wrong with Rights? maps, for the first time, the transformations in the regime of international rights to the transformations in post-World War capitalism."

Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, where he is affiliated to the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation. He is author or co-author of several books including Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and co-editor of Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (Pluto Press, 2015) Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada (2016, PM Press), and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools (Routledge, 2017). Choudry serves on the boards of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal and the Global Justice Ecology Project.