Received Sylff fellowship in 2017
Current Affiliation: La Trobe University
Dr Bruno Pegorari is a Lecturer at La Trobe Law School and a member of the International and Comparative Law Cluster (ICLC). He is the founding coordinator of the ICLC's International Law and Futures research node, which convenes scholarship attentive to the emergent, the speculative, and the not-yet-legible in international law. Before entering academia, Bruno clerked for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR-OAS) in Washington DC and served as a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Law and Development at FGV Direito SP in São Paulo. He is the co-founder and strategic litigation coordinator of CAJIN (Coletivo para o Acesso à Justiça Internacional), which works alongside Indigenous peoples in Brazil providing legal representation before international human rights institutions. He is a Fellow of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF).
Bruno’s research examines how international law encounters, registers, and responds to forms of life, knowledge, and governance that exceed its existing categories. Working across international human rights adjudication settings (with a focus on judicial remedies and interpretation), Indigenous peoples’ rights, religious freedom, and cultural rights, his scholarship is concerned with what happens when legal institutions are confronted with worlds they are not equipped or willing to apprehend, and with the situated practices, emerging infrastructures, and epistemic processes that seek to reshape the legal orders that claim authority over them.
Bruno has published and has work forthcoming in venues including the Revue critique de droit international privé, the Leiden Journal of International Law, Brazilian Journal of International Law, and edited volumes such as the Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Peoples and International Law (OUP), and the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, among others. He has a book under contract with Cambridge University Press.
