Community, Law and Justice: Conflict Between Indigenous Peoples' Claims to Self-determination and the Transnational Economic Interests in Peru and Canada

My doctorate is based on extensive field research in Peru and British Columbia between 2002 and 2007. The dissertation investigates indigenous rights, and local environmental assessment processes, in the context of transnational corporate regulatory frameworks consisting of public, private, and hybrid norm creation regimes. My interdisciplinary method combines theories of global legal pluralism, science and technology studies (STS), environmental law, political and legal philosophy, and scholarship on transnational corporate governance. I received funding from the prestigious Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) among others.