Radha D'Souza
Radha D’Souza is a Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster, London (UK). Before joining the University of Westminster in early 2007, she taught law at University of Waikato in New Zealand, and development studies, sociology and human geography at the University of Auckland. She practiced law in the High Court of Mumbai in the areas of labour rights, constitutional and administrative law, public interest litigation and human rights.
D’Souza has a BA in philosophy from Elphinstone College (University of Mumbai) and a LLB from New Law College (University of Mumbai), and she completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Auckland.
D’Souza works as a writer, critic and commentator. She is a social justice activist and worked with labour movements and democratic rights movements in her home country of India as an organizer and activist lawyer. She has worked with social justice movements in the Asia-Pacific region to focus attention on the effects of international economic policies on developing countries. She works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK.
She is the author of Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters (Orient Longman, 2006), What’s Wrong with Rights? (Pluto Press, 2018), The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (Framer Framed, 2024), Decolonizing Knowledge: Looking Back, Moving Forward (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025).
Together with artist Jonas Staal she curated the exhibition Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021-2022), commissioned and produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. Iterations have been presented at Kunsthalle Münster, Germany; Kansalaistori Square, Helsinki, Finland; Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, South Korea; the first Dutch Pavilion at The 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea; and Ambika P3 an exhibition venue of the University of Westminster in London. In 2024 the CICC publication was published by Framer Framed, with extensive documentation and reflection on the project. The book, The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes is available online, or in the Framer Framed bookshop.
She was also amongst the contributors of Framer Framed’s anthology Notes to Other Futures (2026), a publication commemorating the organization’s 15th anniversary.
Radha D’Souza speaking at the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (Framer Framed, Amsterdam 2021). Photo: © Ruben Hamelink
- Korean Times - Bringing climate crimes to court
- AI Murmurings - Imaginaries of the Deep Present
- Texte zur Kunst - Tobias Dias on Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
- 'What's Wrong With Rights?' by Radha D'Souza from Pluto Press
Links
Exhibitions
Exhibition: CICC London – The British East India Company on Trial
An exhibition of the CICC in London focused on the colonial and industrial crimes of the British Crown and the East India Company.
Exhibition: CICC Gwangju Biennale - Extinction Wars
An exhibition of the CICC at the Netherlands Pavilion of the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, commissioned and produced by Framer Framed.
Exhibition: CICC Seoul - The Law on Trial
A new iteration of the project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at the Oil Tank Culture Park in Seoul, South Korea.
Exhibition: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
A project by Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
Agenda
Book launch: CICC — War Crimes are Climate Crimes
Call to action and book launch for the new publication Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Verdict Presentation: CICC vs. The Dutch State
Presentation of the verdict in the CICC vs. the Dutch State case
Public Hearings: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Comrades past, present and future vs. the Dutch State, Unilever, ING and Airbus
Opening: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
By Josien Pieterse, Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, commissioned by Framer Framed
Launch: Errant Journal #2, Slow Violence
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 1: Climate Transformations
Online panel on the climate crisis with Carola Rackete, Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal, moderator Jeff Diamanti
Magazine
Art and Activism / CICC / Palestine /
CICC / Ecology / Extractivism / Colonial history / Art and Activism /
Putting the Law on Trial: On the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, Serpentine Galleries
Bookshop Selection / CICC / Subversive Publishing /
From Archiving to Publishing: Framer Framed's 'New Social'
CICC / Bookshop Selection / Ecology / Subversive Publishing /
Bookshop Selection: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
CICC / Ecology / Southeast Asia /
CICC: Extinction Wars selected by Monthly Art for exhibition award
CICC / Ecology / Art and Activism / East Asia /
Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The Law on Trial
CICC / Ecology / Extractivism / Art and Activism /
Report: The CICC, a DIY Court for Climate Crimes
/ CICC / Ecology / Art and Activism / Political Climate /
Digital Archive: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
CICC / Ecology / Colonial history / Art and Activism /
Errant Journal: A conversation between Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
CICC / Ecology /
"Nature is not an object of property, but subject of rights"
CICC / Ecology / Colonial history /
The climate crisis is a colonial crisis - by Roos van der Lint
Art and Activism / Action Research / Crisis Imaginaries / Ecology / Planetary Poetics /
Climate and Environmental Activism in the Arts - #ActivismArchive
CICC / Ecology /
The Intergenerational Climate Crimes Act
Bookshop Selection / CICC /
Bookshop selection: What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
Ecology / CICC / Art and Activism / Political Climate /
Announcement: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Ecology / CICC /