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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস
@dbose.bsky.social
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The Robbins Postdoctoral Scholar at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social. Working on Business and Human Rights, TWAIL and Private Law Theory. #BizHumanRights
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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 2
Ever wondered how TWAIL and private law theory can benefit each other? I am excited to share my job market paper, “Postcolonial Private Law,” forthcoming in Brooklyn Law Review (Vol. 91) and now available on SSRN.

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Postcolonial Private Law
<div> For decades, theorizing postcoloniality in law has remained captive to the framework of international law with a focus on distributive justice. This appr
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lsolum.bsky.social
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
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October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
dbose.bsky.social
Excited to share my job talk paper "Postcolonial Private Law" now on SSRN where I bring international law into conversation with private law theory in arguing for empowering Global South people as rightsholders in transnational supply chains.

Thanks for the shout-out @lsolum.bsky.social!
September 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
dbose.bsky.social
Ever wondered how TWAIL and private law theory can benefit each other? I am excited to share my job market paper, “Postcolonial Private Law,” forthcoming in Brooklyn Law Review (Vol. 91) and now available on SSRN.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Postcolonial Private Law
<div> For decades, theorizing postcoloniality in law has remained captive to the framework of international law with a focus on distributive justice. This appr
papers.ssrn.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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lsolum.bsky.social
Bose on Human Rights Due Diligence and Marginalization, buff.ly/qQT6a9j - Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Are there Humans in Human Rights Due Diligence? on SSRN.
June 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
dbose.bsky.social
1/2 Are there humans in human rights due diligence?

Read my latest draft paper on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I argue there that HRDD laws entrench the marginalization of people whose human rights they ostensibly protect by focusing on stakeholder engagement clauses.
<p><span>Are there</span><span> <i>humans </i></span><span>in human rights due diligence?</span><span></span></p>
The Article shows that, with the exception of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D), all mandatory human rights due diligence laws, by
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June 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
dbose.bsky.social
1/2 🚨 Big news from Geneva: The ILO just voted to create a Convention on gig workers! This could mark the beginning of the end for “creative contracting” and misclassification—issues I highlighted in my Verfassungsblog piece.
dbose.bsky.social Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · May 26
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🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits.

In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules?

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Taking Labour Law for a Ride
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June 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits.

In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules?

verfassungsblog.de/internationa...
Taking Labour Law for a Ride
verfassungsblog.de
May 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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acil-uva.bsky.social
What do calls for decolonial futures mean when articulated through international law?

Limited places at our workshop, 5-6 June. @uvalawschool.bsky.social

Organised by @kanadbagchi.bsky.social, @dbose.bsky.social, @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social & @tim-lindgren.bsky.social
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International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (De-)Coloniality - ACIL
Please join us in interrogating international law’s local encounters and (de)coloniality during a two day workshop on the 5th & 6th June 2025 at Amsterdam Law School. The workshop is generously sponso...
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May 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
dbose.bsky.social
1/4 Excited to share my latest draft chapter, called 'The Tort of Irresponsible Contracting', now available on SSRN! It challenges the notion that business decisions are isolated from human rights considerations.

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The tort of irresponsible contracting: Supply chain liability explained through <i>Begum </i>v <i>Maran</i>
This book chapter challenges the notion that business decisions are isolated from human rights considerations. It places a large emphasis on the UK case of Begu
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February 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
dbose.bsky.social
1/2 My new blog is out on how the French corporate responsibility law, while emphasizing protection of Global South people, systematically excludes their voices. Do give it a read here:

bhrj.blog/2024/12/18/t...

#BizHumanRights #UNGPs #HRDD #DevoirDeVigilance #CSDDD
The Marginalisation of Rana Plaza Workers in the Rana Plaza Law
The French devoir de vigilance law is also known as the ‘Rana Plaza law’ owing to its impetus and political will arising from the Rana Plaza disaster. This was the first adopted law on human rights…
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December 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
dbose.bsky.social
🔔 Reminder before Christmas week: Abstracts are due by January 5! What do you think are the tensions behind the decolonial future(s) of international law? We'd love to hear from you!
December 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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antoineduval.bsky.social
We're launching a massive (it will stretch over 10 days) interdisciplinary symposium on the French Duty of Vigilance Law on the BHR Journal blog today!

Our (with Nadia Bernaz) introduction is already out at bhrj.blog/2024/12/09/t...

#BizHumanRights #HRDD #UNGPs #CSDDD #DevoirDeVigilance
The French duty of vigilance law after its implementation: (in)effectiveness, (un)accountability and (in)justice?
Introduction to Blog Symposium This blog symposium is the result of a collaborative project between the Asser Institute and Wageningen University aimed at investigating the implementation of the Fr…
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December 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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ecusato.bsky.social
Join us in Amsterdam on 16 December for the first Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture with the fabulous Tendayi Achiume🔥🔥 More info and registration link at: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...
Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture: E. Tendayi Achiume - Decolonial Futures
E. Tendayi Achiume delivers the Decolonial Futures RPA's first Annual Lecture, titled 'Border Imperialism(s): A View from Law'
decolonialfutures.uva.nl
December 4, 2024 at 2:58 PM
dbose.bsky.social
1/4 Read our new blog series unveiling the dance between human rights and economic laws. 💃

rightsasusual.com/2024/12/02/s...

It follows from the Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws symposium at Tilburg Law School, hosted with @nnhrr.bsky.social colleagues Dalia Palombo and Gustavo Becker.
Symposium: Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws
This post is by Dr Debadatta Bose, postdoctoral scholar at the Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory. Readers of Rights as Usual are well-versed in the complex dance between human rights and econo…
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December 2, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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shaunamc.bsky.social
I put together this #BizHumanRights starter pack, but I know there's more of you out there! go.bsky.app/JcbrRb8 Let me know who I missed and hope to see some of you at the #UNForumBHR.
November 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM
dbose.bsky.social
For interested people, here is an (incomplete) IEL Collective starter pack. Please let me know if I should add you or someone else!

go.bsky.app/ByVGYq6
November 20, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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📢 Call for Papers 📢

Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨

(Limited) travel funding available

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Call for Papers: International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality - Decolonial Futures
For a two day workshop to take place on the 5th & 6th June 2025, organised by the seed funding project Global Conversations, Local Inspirations: Locating Decoloniality in International Legal Practice
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November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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corinneblalock.bsky.social
I made a first attempt, there are DEFINITELY people missing, so I PROMISE this does not arbitrate who is inside and outside of LPE!

You can reply to be added or DM me, also feel free to suggest other people, etc.

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November 16, 2024 at 2:10 PM
dbose.bsky.social
Where is the long-drawn struggle between human rights and economic laws taking us? Let us think!

We’re excited to announce a call for abstracts our symposium “Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws” on June 19 at Tilburg Law School & online.

Further info: www.tilburguniversity.edu/overview/sym...
Symposium: Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws | Tilburg University
June 19, 2024 Tilburg University, the Netherlands
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February 23, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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annasaunders.bsky.social
delighted to see this out and grateful to Wanshu Cong and @fjquintana.bsky.social for bringing us together to think about the past and future of international law through Allende’s lens. look out for the rest of the posts starting from today!

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December 19, 2023 at 8:57 AM
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stephtriefus.bsky.social
Beyond delighted to share my first ever published article ‘The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?’ available open access in the wonderful Business & Human Rights Journal
The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitratio...
The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?
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November 27, 2023 at 7:21 AM
dbose.bsky.social
1) My PhD gives a private law theory justification for supply chain responsibility for human rights
2) What if there were only human duties enumerated instead of human rights?
glexareen.bsky.social Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · Oct 6
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.
October 8, 2023 at 2:54 PM