Dr Colin Luoma
Senior Lecturer in Law
Summary
Colin joined Brunel Law School as a Lecturer in 2021. Prior to joining Brunel, he was a Legal Researcher with Minority Rights Group International and a civil litigation attorney working in private practice. Colin earned his PhD in connection with his thesis entitled 'Indigenous Cultural Rights Violations and Transitional Justice in the Settler Colonial State'. His doctoral research analysed the treatment of indigenous peoples’ cultural rights violations in transitional justice initiatives implemented in settler colonial states. More broadly, his research is focused on the intersections between indigenous and minority rights and transitional justice, historical wrongdoing, and environmental justice.
Qualifications
PhD in Law (Brunel University London)
Juris Doctor (Saint Louis University School of Law)
Bachelor of Science - Sociology (University of Montana - Missoula)
Bachelor of Science - Accounting (University of Montana - Missoula)
Responsibility
Postgraduate Placements and Internships Coordinator
Assistant Postgraduate Programmes Leader
Newest selected publications
Luoma, C. (2023) 'Reckoning with Conservation Violence on Indigenous Territories: Possibilities and Limitations of a Transitional Justice Response'. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 18. ISSN: 1752-7716 Open Access Link
Dima, M., Xanthaki, A., Deniozou, T. and Luoma, C. (2022) 'The Rights Hero - Serious Games for Human Rights Education and Integration of Migrant and Refugee Children in Europe'. International Journal of Children's Rights, 30 (1). pp. 41 - 71. ISSN: 0927-5568 Open Access Link
Luoma, C. (2021) 'Closing the cultural rights gap in transitional justice: Developments from Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls'. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 39 (1). pp. 30 - 52. ISSN: 0169-3441 Open Access Link
Domínguez, L. and Luoma, C. (2020) 'Decolonising conservation policy: How colonial land and conservation ideologies persist and perpetuate indigenous injustices at the expense of the environment'. Land, 9 (3). pp. 1 - 22.Open Access Link