Leela Jadhav
Leela is a legal and spatial researcher. Her work explores current and emerging asymmetries of power, and seeks to observe how these dynamics configure a class of people, and a set of ecologies, that are socially and economically excluded from the future.
She is especially interested in the possibilities for a contemporary jurisprudence through which new legal technologies might emerge to meet the conditions of the current moment. In particular: new ideas of legal and factual causation, new theories of the state and the corporation, and evolving notions of property.
Notable projects and achievements
Her recent work, From Legal Fictions to Fictive Reality, used ethnographic research in India’s Northeast coal-mining regions to examine how the Sixth Schedule encodes colonial and contemporary ideas of indigeneity. Previous affiliations include Forensic Architecture, where she was the legal researcher for the report ‘A Spatial Analysis of Israel’s Conduct in Gaza’ submitted as evidence to the International Court of Justice, The Howard League for Penal Reform and JUSTICE. She is currently undertaking the Bar course as the Middle Temple Astbury Scholar and Inderpal Rahal Memorial Trust Award recipient