New researchers Law and Development

The Law and Development Research Group welcomes Tomaso Ferrando (research professor), Antidius Kaitu, Tefera Addis (PhD researchers) and Anne Oloo (Sustjustice coordinator). The Law and Development Research Group welcomes Tomaso Ferrando (research professor), Antidius Kaitu, and Tefera Addis (PhD researchers). You can find their bio's below: Tomaso Ferrando joins the University of Antwerp from the University of Bristol Law School, where he developed three main research pathways: the role of law in building/dismantling socially and environmentally just food systems, the construction and implications of the green bonds' market, and the distributive impact of law in global value chains. Before Bristol, he worked at the University of Warwick School of Law, was research fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, and visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town, University of Sao Paulo and University of Turin. He is a member of the Legal Committee of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and of the Extraterritorial Obligation Consortium (ETOs). He recently obtained a GCRF grant to work on access to land, food security and climate change in five Caribbean countries and has research and impact projects both in Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil. Tefera D. Addis is a Doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp.