Ms Laila Fathi
LLB (Nanterre Universite, Paris) MA European Business Law (Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris), LLM (SOAS, London)
Overview
- Name:
- Ms Laila Fathi
- Email address:
- Laila_fathi@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Re-thinking transitional justice in a post-colonial context - analysis of the Franco-Algerian war and the reconciliation process (working title)
- Year of Study:
- 2010
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
This research aims at an explanatory analysis of the concept of Justice in stable and liberal democracies that undertake a re-examination of past wrongs. It intends to explore the nature of transition through the concrete example of France's Colonial past with particular references to the crimes committed in Algeria during the period of 1954 to 1962.
PhD Conferences
The French Politics of Reconciliation in the aftermath of the Algerian War, SWANA Seminar Series, London School of Economics, 30 June 2011.
'Exclusions and inclusions in national identity: The French case study', Centre of Ethnic Minorities Studies, Seminar Series SOAS, 22 March 2012.
Tightening the power : the Algerian Regime and the Algerian memory : Critical Perspectives on European-MENA Relations in the light of the 'Arab Spring', SOAS workshop, 1 June 2012
Research
French politics, minorities rights, international law, transitional justice, colonialism
