Mapping Legalities

Thomas Coggin is a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research is concerned with the ways in which property law systemically structures the appropriation, access and use of everyday space in the contemporary urban and spatial environment. He is a co-coordinator of the International Research Group on Law & Urban Space and a member of the Researcher & Statisticians Constituency of WIEGO. He is an alumnus of the Managing Global Governance programme of the German Development Institute, and he holds a Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) degree from Fordham University.Roopa Madhav is a consultant with the Law Programme WIEGO and was the joint coordinator of a three-country study on ‘Law and Informal Economy’ for WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing). She is also Professor of Law (Research) at the National Law University Delhi. She was a research fellow at the International Environmental Law Research Centre, working on a project mapping water law reforms in the country. She has been faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, visiting faculty at the National Law School and Tamil Nadu National Law University. She is co-editor of Water Law for the Twenty-First Century – National and International Aspects of Water Law Reform in India, Routledge, 2009, and Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws 2010, New Delhi. She holds a PhD (Law) from SOAS, University of London, LLM from New York University and a BA/LLB from National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

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