César Rodríguez Garavito is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n sociologist and legal scholar whose work focuses on the transformation of law and politics in the context of globalization. He is part of an emerging group of human rights scholars and practitioners studying globalization and law “from below.” He teaches at the University of The Andes

University of the Andes, Colombia

The University of the Andes , is a coeducational, nonsectarian private university located in city centre Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948, the University has 9 faculties: Administration, Architecture and Design, Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Engineering and...

 (Colombia) and is a Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (United States). He is also a founding member of the Latin American Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia).

Selected bibliography

• Law and Globalization from Below: Toward a Cosmopolitan Legality (with Boaventura Santos, ed.) (Cambridge, 2005)
• Hope Reborn: An Introduction to the New Latin American Left (with P. Barrett and D. Chavez, eds.) (Pluto, 2008)
• Globalization, Governance, and Labor Rights (Siglo-Anthropos, 2008)

External links

• http://www.cesarrodriguez.net/