Overview of Collaborations
The LDRG collaborates in research and teaching with academic partners at the national and international level:
- Law and Development Research Network | LDRN
- Other Research networks
The LDRG also participates in the Flemish Interuniversity Research Network Law&Dev and the Association of Human Rights Institutes. - Privileged Academic Partners
The LDRG prioritizes joint research and collaborative teaching with Global South higher education, nonacademic institutes and legal scholars. The LDRG cooperates closely with its five “privileged” partners, including for the SUSTJUST teaching program:
- The National Law University | NLU | Delhi | India
- The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru | PUCP Peru
- The Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria | South Africa
- The Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” University of Padua | Italy
- The University of Eastern | Finland
Besides these, our members have academic contacts and joint research projects in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Lesotho, Tanzania, and more.
These include:
- Durable solutions through a human rights-based approach for displaced women and children in the Omo-Gibe river basin, Southern Ethiopia (2026-2031), funded through VLIRUOS, with Wolaita Sodo University (WSU)
- In 2024, the LDRG, with the Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Birzeit University, initiated the collaborative research project “Emancipatory Human Rights.” This entails common research and policy briefs, and student and staff exchange
- The Re-Empower Project Resilience through empowerment: overcoming socioeconomic and environmental risk factors for child marriage in Tanzania through a positive engagement with customs & traditions (2022-2027), funded through VLIRUOS and jointly implemented by the Faculty of Law at Mzumbe University in Tanzania, the Law and Development Research Group at the University of Antwerp and Hogeschool Gent in Belgium