CJS Seminar: Adopting and adapting an anti-corruption regime of transnational standards: A case study of anti-corruption reforms in East Timor - Sapna Reheem Shaila
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Mon 14 February 2022
*** This event has been cancelled due to industrial action ***
The Crime Justice & Society Seminar Series welcomes
Sapna Reheem Shaila, Research Assistant, Edinburgh Law School and Visiting Lecturer at King's College London
Adopting and adapting an anti-corruption regime of transnational standards: A case study of anti-corruption reforms in East Timor
About the seminar
Ideas about corruption as a social problem and law as a means to tackle corruption, have travelled to different social settings through international organisations, rule-of-law experts, and legal professional actors. In this seminar, Sapna will discuss her research on international donor-led anticorruption reforms in East Timor and the challenges the internationals and Timorese officials faced in adopting and adapting new legal standards, institutional arrangements, and assuming official roles for tackling corruption. Sapna’s talk will seek to illustrate how policies and practices at the international level influence institutional reforms at the national level, potentially leading to shifts in attitudes and normative behaviours in particular contexts. She will also contextualise the challenges recipient communities that undergo reforms face while adopting and adapting new norms and institutional arrangements. Sapna’s paper seeks to open dialogue and engagement with other scholars and researchers who are interested in examining the limits and possibilities of bringing social changes through law.
About the speaker:
Sapna is a PhD candidate at the Dickson Poon School of Law. Her research focuses on the role of international development actors in promoting the rule of law in transitional states. Sapna spent six months in East Timor for her fieldwork. Her thesis is a step towards understanding the rule of law through a socio-legal lens. Sapna’s research aims to bring the importance of social forces and its influence on the law and legal actors, thus contextualising its significance on the study of law especially non-western societies.
She has presented parts of her research in the Law and Development Research Network Annual Conference 2018; Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2019; and Society of Legal Scholars Conference in 2019.
Sapna has completed her LLM in Law, Development and Governance (Distinction) from SOAS, University of London. She was awarded the Best Performing Student 2014-15 for the specialism. Sapna completed her B.A./LLB ( Hons.) from NALSAR University of Law, India.
Sapna’s interests are in the field of socio-legal studies, comparative law, law and development, public law, international human rights law and tort law. Currently her research interests focus on methodological gaps in conducting socio-legal research in non-western nations.
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Crime, Justice and Society Seminar Series
The Crime, Justice and Society seminars are co-hosted by the Criminal Law and Criminology subject areas of Edinburgh Law School and are open to all. We particularly welcome students from our LLM and MSc programmes to join us.