Deval Desai

Thinking about institutions, rule of law, expertise, and development @uoelawschool and @AHDCentre. I write sometimes. Tweets personal. RT=intrigued/incredulous.

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Delighted to see some of our work @FundsRtg and @RtG_project out there, with credit to @sruthiherbert @sapna_reheem and others @UoELawSchool and beyond. And thanks to @amy_lawton_ and @SteveDalytax for convening a stellar stream!

[SLS Annual Conference @SLSConference]

Our warmest congratulations also go to runner up @DevalSDesai for 'Theorising the anti-fiscal state: evidence from India’
@UoELawSchool

[The SLS @legalscholars]

Our warmest congratulations to the winners and runner up for the Best Paper Prize at our 2023 Annual Conference #SLSBrookes23
Helene Tyrrell, @ConallMallory
Runner up @DevalSDesai
🎉🎉🎉🤩🤩🤩

[Richard Albert @RichardAlbert]

📚 A brand new book -- "Expert Ignorance" @CUP -- on the simultaneously strategic, performative, and authentic dimensions of expert advice on governance and the rule of law. A thoroughly original thesis worth reading.

🎉 Available in Open Access: https://t.co/X4KvxSzhmq

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Looking forward to an engaging week with a thoughtful and global group of scholars, including partners in convening @rtapscott and @ChristopherGvrs

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

@loyaladvisor @EdinburghUni @LSELaw Thanks @loyaladvisor and @LSELaw for the invitation and fun discussion! It was also great to meet such sharp PhD students!

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Please get in touch with any Qs about the job: https://t.co/baVODQj9sE

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Post-doc opportunity for anyone interested in building theories of the state in comparative perspective, and reflecting on the methodological challenges. Fully funded by @snsf_ch to work w/me and team @UoELawSchool, with scope to develop your own project.

https://t.co/Wp4gHNMvs0

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Flexible start date, ends 30th September 2024 (with possibility of a further extension of contingent on funder approval).

Our team @RtG_project is fun, supportive, and a great home for interesting work! Strongly encourage applications from those underrepresented in the sector.

[CPAID_LSE @CPAID_LSE]

📣 @ceu summer school deadline extended! Early-career scholars interested in #ReimaginingGlobalJustice, apply by 1 March. @ceusummer @AfricaAtLSE

🔗 https://t.co/eSClakIJca

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Thanks @joshaw! Really looking forward to working with the remarkable group of fellows @YoungAcademySco (and flattered that I still qualify as young by their standards)

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Whoops, @Law_Critique

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Andrew Lang @uoelawschool and I are part of a stacked special issue @lawandcritique, convened by @Dimitri_VdM and @geo_2022. Everyone ruminates on @Fleurej 's work on shifts from "plans" to "prototypes" in development practice - and Fleur does too! 
https://t.co/TWd9iFO5uw

[Fleur Johns @FleurEJ]

Now out with open access: my latest in @LawAndCritique ‘State Changes: Prototypical Governance Figured & Prefigured’ part of a special issue brilliantly conceived by @Dimitri_VdM. Enjoy.

https://t.co/PpVvNnzjyo

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

We describe a related idea: devt practice and its organisations operate in a "modular" fashion, where different data sources (and resultant activity) can be attached/discarded with ease. We ask: what does this do to forms, locations, practices of reflexivity already in devt?

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

To give you a sense of Niamh's importance to a happy workplace, it's the inverse of her Twitter presence

[PeaceRep @Peace_Rep_]

Join us 11 Nov as @KristinaSimion introduces her new book on rule of law intermediaries in #Myanmar.

@MonaAdhi @DevalSDesai & Pilar Domingo will discuss policy and practice implications for governance in Myanmar and beyond.
https://t.co/h8aAVIncnM

@FCDOREDGCSD @UoELawResearch

[PeaceRep @Peace_Rep_]

Law and Justice Reform: Learning from Intermediaries in Myanmar and Beyond
📆11 Nov, 12:30 GMT

@KristinaSimion @MonaAdhi @DevalSDesai & Pilar Domingo will discuss policy and practice implications for governance in #Myanmar and beyond. Register now 👇
https://t.co/zSED0vjsBC

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Would you like to do a PhD with our dynamic team @UoELawSchool, thinking about public finances and the admin state? Whether you're a lawyer, political scientist, public admin scholar, sociologist, anthropologist, you're eligible to apply! https://t.co/rDvwKTZn6h

[Unspent Funds (RtG) @FundsRtg]

Come join our team!
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on a project entitled “Reversing the Gaze”. The successful applicant will work with @DevalSDesai in the @UoELawSchool
#ReversingTheGaze
https://t.co/MxQY7X3ZIv

[Deval Desai @DevalSDesai]

Bookshelf material for those interested in the rule of law and authoritarianism

[Dr. Ashrita Prasad Kotha @AshritaPrasad]

An exciting PhD call at Edinburgh Law School to work with Deval Desai on "Reversing the Gaze" which allows scholars to explore whether and how concepts developed in and of the Global South can fruitfully be used to analyse political phenomena in Europe: https://t.co/3ZehJ717un