Luke Smitham Email & Phone Number

Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Media coverage:Marilyn Croser, CORE Coordinator, 'To make a successful FOI request, take a big dollop of patience and a handful of top-class law students', http://corporate-responsibility.org/kiobel-fois-show-business-interests-trumped-human-rights/Anna Fazackerley, 'Student solicitors step into the breach', (The Guardian, 8 Apr 2013) http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/apr/08/legal-aid-cuts-student-solicitorsBecky Waller-Davies, 'London law students play key role in Guinean mining reforms', (Lawyer2B, 11 Jun 2013) http://l2b.thelawyer.com/careers/pro-bono/london-law-students-play-key-role-in-guinean-mining-reforms/3005835.articleBecky Waller-Davies, 'Law students react to Supreme Court human rights verdict', (Lawyer2B, 17 Apr 2013)http://l2b.thelawyer.com/home/news/law-students-react-to-supreme-court-human-rights-verdict/3003950.articleBecky Waller-Davies, 'SOAS law students establish international human rights advocacy network', (Lawyer2B, 26 Mar 2013)http://l2b.thelawyer.com/careers/pro-bono/soas-law-students-establish-international-human-rights-advocacy-network/3003370.article

Accra, Ghana

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Windsor, United Kingdom

Measuring the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: Innovative Perspectives on business and human rights indicatorsFurther information: http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/programme/Forthcoming+Events/Business+and+Human+Rights

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Technical assistance project to the government of Guinea focusing on reforms to the mining sector, promotion of good governance, compliance with the law and equitable sharing of benefits

Drafting and editing of a literature review for a report published by the IHRB on the issue of land-grabbing.

London, United Kingdom

Courses taken:- Introduction to International Economic Law- Sociological Approaches to Law- Multinational Enterprises and the Law- World War II, Cold War, and the "War On Terror": the United States and South East Asia- Dissertation in Law: What are the socio-legal implications that IMF (and similar institutions) bailouts have had and will have on ‘developed’ countries?Courses audited:- Foundations of International Law- International Law and Global Orders

Legal research in the compiling of a legal history amicus curiae brief submitted to the court. The case covers, amongst others, issues of of corporate responsibility towards the protection of human rights and the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Claims Act.

Master Of Arts (Ma), International Law And Comparative Legal Studies

Activities and Societies: President and co-founder of Banyan: SOAS Advocates, Elected student representative responsible.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History

Activities and Societies: Elected student representative, responsible to and representative of fellow undergraduate History students.