Dr Anna Chadwick
Senior Lecturer in Law
Anna Chadwick is a Senior Lecturer in Law working in International Law and Legal Theory. She first joined the School of Law as a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith (LKAS) Fellow in 2017, after completing a two-year Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, in Florence.
Anna’s principal research interests lie at the intersection between law and markets. Her PhD research explored the role of commodity derivatives speculation in the context of the 2007-11 global food crisis and offered a critical assessment of attempts to use financial regulation as a means to curb excessive levels of speculation in derivatives markets. Anna’s subsequent work has investigated the relationships between law and processes of financialisation in the global economy, the significance of contract law in the development of new financial instruments, and the role of public international law and international economic law in contributing to the production of food insecurity. Her monograph, Law and the Political Economy of Hunger, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2019.
Anna was awarded her doctorate by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in November 2015. During her PhD, she co-founded the Food, Law, and Finance Network (FFRN) with colleagues in the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and the US. Prior to undertaking her doctorate, Anna spent one year working for the legal charity, Reprieve, where she undertook investigation and research on death penalty cases. Anna holds a Masters Degree in Public International Law and International and UK Human Rights Law (LLM) from King’s College London, and an LLB from the University of Leeds.
Below is a list of key publications. For a full list please click on the following links:
Poverty and Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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This timely and insightful book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to evaluate the role of human rights in tackling the global challenges of poverty and economic inequality. Reflecting on the concrete experiences of particular countries in tackling poverty, it appraises the international success of human rights-based approaches. Drawing on insights from philosophy, history, economics and politics, contributors consider a range of questions concerning the nature of human rights and their possible relationship to poverty, inequality and development. Chapters interrogate human rights-based approaches and question whether the normative human rights framework provides a sound foundation for addressing global poverty and equitable distribution of resources. Probing practical questions concerning the extent to which international human rights institutions have been effective in combating poverty, this thought-provoking book considers possible strategies in response to the challenges that lie ahead. Offering robust and provocative guidelines for the future of human rights and development, this unique book will be indispensable for academics and researchers investigating the intersection of human rights and poverty, particularly those interested in human rights-based approaches to tackling inequality. Its practical insights will also benefit policy-makers in need of novel methodologies for promoting equality.
Law and the Political Economy of Hunger
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This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger. In the work of many international institutions, governments, and NGOs, law is represented as a solution to the persistence of hunger. This presentation is evident in the efforts to realize a human right to adequate food, as well as in the positioning of law, in the form of regulation, as a tool to protect society from 'unruly' markets. In this monograph, Anna Chadwick draws on theoretical work from a range of disciplines to challenge accounts that portray law's role in the context of hunger as exclusively remedial.