Our Project Partners
Warwick Law School University of Warwick, UK
The project is led from the Warwick, Law School, University of Warwick, UK. Warwick Law School’s world leading research has social justice and interdisciplinarity at its core, is anchored in the context of law and its global dimensions. The Law School fosters a collaborative research culture, engaging with communities, professionals, and creatives locally and globally to drive positive and meaningful change. The Law School is also home to a number of research centres, including the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), a research and public engagement centre examining the relationship between law, regulatory regimes and governance structures of international economic affairs. The JETP project is part of an ongoing academic and civil society collaboration under the auspices of the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLIFT) run at Warwick and linked to the GLOBE Centre.
Essex Law School, University of Essex, UK
Essex Law School has a global reputation for its research, particularly in the areas of human rights law and practice, business law, public law, criminal justice, health law, law and technology and social-legal studies. Its research engages with debates about the meaning of justice in the UK and beyond. The Law School is home to the Essex Business and Human Rights Project which facilitates and supports a range of research, training and policy work on a range of issues, including balancing national and local human rights concerns in development projects, corporate complicity in human rights abuses, regional human rights law and multinational corporate accountability, commercial arbitration and human rights, extraterritorial treaty obligations and their impact on companies, project finance, development and human rights, unconscionable debt and resistance, social movements and human rights pressure groups and their impacts on business and management.
Law and Development Research Group, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium
The Law and Development research group at the Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium, unites researchers who study the role of law in enhancing human dignity and global justice, between and within states in north and south. The group takes a critical approach to law, and seeks to investigate what law actually ‘does’ in society, amongst others through interdisciplinary and empirical research. In light of its research mission, the Law and Development research group collaborates with academic partners, both at the national and the international level. It was one of the driving partners behind the foundation of the Law and Development Research Network.
Institute for Economic Justice, South Africa
The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) is a progressive economic policy think tank that was launched by a group of South African academics, activists and former government policymakers. The IEJ’s founding vision was an economy anchored by the values of equality and social justice. The IEJ is a significant voice and thought leader in directing the movement for economic justice in South Africa. Its mission is to advance economic justice by collaborating in the provision of rigorous, accessible research and policy alternatives that empower progressive social forces to create systemic change from above and below in South Africa and the continent.
Centre of Economics and Law Studies, Indonesia
The Centre of Economics and Law Studies (CELIOS) is an independent research institution committed to excellence, employing an interdisciplinary approach to combat the climate crisis and address systemic inequality. Among its main missions are to engage in international networks for high-quality research collaborations on energy transition, sustainable finance, and restorative economy, amplify the voices of the Indigenous community, workers, and local communities affected by the mining industry, and to help strengthen civic space with economic and public policy research.
Third World Network (TWN) is an independent non-profit international research and advocacy organisation involved in issues relating to development, developing countries and north-south affairs. Its mission is to bring about a greater articulation of the needs and rights of peoples in the south, a fair distribution of world resources, and forms of development which are ecologically sustainable and fulfil human needs. TWN’s objectives are to deepen the understanding of the development dilemmas and challenges facing developing countries and to contribute to policy changes in pursuit of just, equitable and ecologically sustainable development. TWN is legally registered in Malaysia with its international secretariat in Penang and offices in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Geneva (Switzerland) and Delhi (India). There are researchers based in Beijing, Cairo, Jakarta, Kathmandu, Manila and New York. The Latin America Regional Secretariat is located in Montevideo (Uruguay) and the African Regional Secretariat is in Accra (Ghana).