2026 (selection)
Spring School on “Race, Resources and Redistribution“
Early-Career Researchers Academy‘: Geneva, 8-10 April 2026
In collaboration with the Centre for Law and Social Change at SOAS, we are excited to host the Spring School on Race, Resources and Redistribution addressed towards early-career researchers. The Spring School will consist of public lectures and writing workshops.
Strukturen der Ungleichheit im Gleichheitsrecht
Conference Participation, Hamburg, 26-27 Feb. 2026
There is an assumption among policy-makers that eliminating any mention of socially constructed identify-markers, such as race, disability, or gender will eradicate racism, ableism, sexism etc. Sué González Hauck and Jens Theilen (both HSU Hamburg) host a conference to expose the material harm caused by such policy. We are happy to contribute to this.
Lands for the Taking : Neo-Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Unravelling of International Law
Conference , Geneva 12-13 March 2026
Though not part of Law by Colour Code, we are proudly cross posting the SNSF Scientific Exchanges-Funded conference ‘Lands for the Taking: Neo-Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Unravelling of International Law’ for which we are partnering with the Human Security Unit of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation.
Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Skills Share, 17 February 2026
Our fellows and collaborators bring a lot of knowledge and experience to our early-career research community here in Geneva on how to publish in peer-reviewed journals. To this end, we are excited to welcome Abhimanyu George Jain (EJIL), Tor Krever (London Review IL), Tim Lindgren (Journal of Human Rights and the Environment) and Suzana Radhe Gerchmann (Australian Feminist Law Journal) for a skills share on publishing in peer reviewed journals.
The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
1Book Launch, Berlin, 28 January 2026, 18:00 hrs.
We are excited and honoured to have Hannah Franzki (ECCHR/FU Berlin) and Priya Gupta (McGill) engage with the ‘Pathology of Plenty’. The event is hosted and chaired by Kalika Mehta (HU Berlin) and will take place at the Faculty of Law at HU Berlin (room E25).
The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
Book Reading, Berlin, 27 January 2026, 17:00 hrs.
We are grateful to the German Institute of Human Rights and its library team, which has selected ‚The Pathology of Plenty‘ for a book reading. It will take place in the premisses of the library at Zimmerstraße 27, 10117 Berlin. Everyone is welcome to join.
2025 (Selection)
Corporations and the Planet
Paper Presentation, Geneva, 15 October 2025
We end the year in Mainz at an author’s workshop, where we will present our contribution on the role of global corporations in ecological and social order for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Global Corporations and International Law.
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
Book launch, Geneva, 19 November 2025
We are hosting Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox & Rafeef Ziadah to launch their new book exploring Palestine through the prism of race and political economy. With us to discuss their work are Christine Schwöbel-Patel & Francesco Amoruso.
Pathology of Plenty
Skills Share, Tromso, 27 November 2025
The Arctic University of Norway is the perfect location to launch ‚The Pathology of Plenty‘ published by Lys Kulamadayil. Rather than a classical book launch, the talk focussed on the process of turning a dissertation into a monograph.
Conceptions of Indigeneity and Blackness
Summer School Participation, London, 20-25 July 2025
This summer, Davidzo Dhumbura had the pleasure of participating in the summer program of theMore-Than-Human-Life (MOTH) summer program offered by NYU Law School, where she presented her doctoral project.
Hierarchies at Work: Race, World-Systems, and Legal Distribution
Book launch, Geneva, 15 October 2025
We are delighted to host a virtual launch of a collection of essays edited by Karen Engle and Neville Hoad (University of Texas, Austin)
Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon
Book launch, Geneva, 24 September 2025
To kick off the new academic year, we are delighted to host David Chandler (Westminster) and Farai Chipato (Edinburgh) for the launch of their co-authored book.ew academic year,
Land, Law, and Hierarchies of Extraction & Exploitation
World Cafe, Berlin, 9 September 2025
An open exchange between human rights researchers and activists, educators, community organizers, artists, cultural workers and civil society representatives, co-organised with the Spore Initiative.
Reconsidering Reparations
Workshop, Johannesburg, 10-11 June 2025
Lys Kulamadayil participated in a two-day workshop with scholars and activists at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg
International Law’s Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (De-)Coloniality
Conference, Amsterdam, 4-6 June 2025
Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Lindgren & Kanad Bagchi (University of Amsterdam), Lys Kulamadayil is convening a conference bringing together 35 scholars from around the world.
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times
Public Panels, Chicago, 22-25 May 202525
Following their 2024 conference, Praggya Surana, Tor Krever, and Lys Kulamadayil will be hosting a panel at the Law and Society’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. They will be joined by Allison Lindner (UCL), Arpitha Kodiveri (Vasser), Hannah Birkenkoetter (ITAM Mexico), and Vasuki Nesiah (NYU)
Global Famine Governance and International Law
Presentation, Geneva, 125 March 2025
Lys Kulamadayil will present some initial work of Law by Colour Code’s at the Graduate Institute’s Department for Anthropology and Sociology, which convenes a conversation series, for scholars to present their work-in-progress.
The Coloniality of Measuring Famine
Presentation, Newcastle, 27 February 2025
Following the kind onvitation of Emily Jones, NUAcT Fellow at Newcastle University and leading scholar on posthuman feminist theory and international law, Lys Kulamadayil will deliver a presentation at the law school.
Re-imagining International Law in the Anthropocene
Presentation, New York City, 12-14 March 2025
Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz Jacqueline Gallant are convening the MOTHS festival of ideas at NYU School of Law, where Lys Kulamadayil will be delivering a presentation.
Re-imagining International Law in the Anthropocene
Keynote Speach, Bern, 10-12 February 2025
Lys Kulamadayil will be delivering one of the keynote speaches at the second conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society, which has the theme Law and/in the Anthropocene
2024 (Selection)
Global Starvation Governance and International Law
Presentation, 21 October 2024, Stockholm
As part of the workshop Historical Approaches to International Law, Taking Stock, Moving On, organised by Agnes.Hellner, Erik.Svensson, and Love Rönnelid, Lys Kulamadayil presented her work on starvation.
Human Rights and Human Dignity in Catastrophic Times
Panel: 4 September 2024, Kochi
Hosted by the National University for Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), a this panel features Godwin Dzah (Alberta) and Lys Kulamadayil who offered their reflections on the possibilities and limits of human rights, both in their juridical form and as a language of mobilisation.
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times
Conference, 3-7 September 2024, Fort Kochi
40 academics from across the world met in Kochi, Kerala for a conference co-organised by Praggya Surana, Lys Kulamadayil, and Tor Krever (Cambridge). This event was also an oppertunity to reflect on modes and methods of critique and critical praxis.
Making Sense of Social Hierarchies in International Law
Panel: 4 September 2024, Kochi
Hosted by NUALS, B.S. Chimni (Jindal Law), Tor Krever (Cambridge), and Ruchira Sen is (Jindal Journalism and Communication) reflected on methods and approaches including history, economics, and philosophy to make sense of the upholding of social hierarchies through law.
Legalising Nature, Naturalising the Environment
Panel: 7 June 2024, Denver
At the Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association, Lys Kulamadayil organised a panel with Phillip Paiement (Tilburg University), Godwin E. K. Dzah (University of Alberta), Arpitha Kodiveri (Vasser), Afshin Akhtar-Ahavari (Queensland University of Technology). It was chaired by Esra Demir-Gürsel (Hertie School of Governance) and Corina Heri (University of Zürich) served as a discussant.
The Natural Environment of the Global South and the Prism of Development
Presentation, 13 April 2024, Berlin
Co-organised by Technical University Freiberg and the German Institute of Human Rights, this conference ‘Business & Human Rights – New Scientific Approaches‘ brought together scholars from across the world to present their work on the realisation of human rights in a corporate world. Among them, Lys Kulamadayil
Die Reproduktion sozialer Hierarchien im Deutschen Jurastudium
Presentation, 8 April 2024, Hamburg
German legal education has been in crisis. For years, for decades, perhaps for centuries. Invited by Felix Hanschmann (Bucerius Law School) and Andreas Fischer-Lescano (University of Kassel), Lys Kulamadayil offered her reflections on the ways in which the structure of legal education upholds racial, gender, and class hierarchies at the conference ‘Kritik und Reform des Jurastudiums’.
Gaza and the Battle for Humanity: How International Law Provides Meaning to Violence
Public Panel: 6 March 2024, Geneva
Human rights experts at the United Nations were the first in the UN system to raise the alarm that the state of Israel was committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people, amounting to a risk of genocide. At this public event, Pedro Arrojo Agudo (SR Water and Sanitation), Michael Fakhri (SR Food), Ann Marie Skelton (Chairperson UN Child Rights Committee), and Balakrishnan Rajagopal (SR Housing) spoke about the violence in Gaza and their experience on the frontlines in the battle for humanity in international relations and law.
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