The Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Minas Gerais hosted the 7th General Conference of the Law and Development Research Network in Belo Horizonte, from 15 to 18 July 2025. As one of the co-founders of the Network, the Law and Development Research Group was strongly represented at the conference. Ysaline Reid's paper on 'The EUDR and the ongoing transformation of the Brazilian regulatory, policy and GVC framework' was awarded with the Koen De Feyter Prize as best junior scholar paper in English.
Other members of the Research Group presented their research in thematic panels:
'The role of the state and the impacts of agro–extractivism in the Bolivian Chiquitania. Challenges for the protection of the human rights of indigenous communities' – Joaquin Andrés Chacin Barragán;
'A mixed – methods approach to hold corporations responsible for human rights. Focus on Private international law' – Thalia Kruger;
'Adjudicating economic and social rights during structural crises – progress despite retrogression?' – Marion Sandner;
'Human Rights, Public Goods and ‘Multistakeholder’ Sustainable Development' – Gamze Erdem Türkelli;
'The Operationalization of Human Rights in Sustainable Development: Human Rights Law & Multistakeholder Partnerships' – João Felipe Fernandes;
'Multi – stakeholder Partnerships and Human Rights in Kenya: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Partnership Accelerator' – Yasmin Mosellhy;
'Pathways to accountability for multistakeholder partnerships: conditions for the effective uptake of human rights legal standards' – María Alejandra Bermúdez;
'Challenging redistribution through non – discrimination: interpreting the limits of equality law in the search for coherence' – Michael George Marcondes Smith
